This article was published on February 10, 2011

Silicon Valley geeks have their own ‘Fight Club’. I kid you not. [Video]


Silicon Valley geeks have their own ‘Fight Club’. I kid you not. [Video]

Where do geeks go to blow off steam?

A club founded by a software engineer, is a place where geeks from Silicon Valley can go to take some aggression out with their fists. The video created by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari titled “Uppercut”, gives you a look into the private world of a geek fight club, a club that aims to bring courage and strength to the participants involved.

A member of the club states “the fighting is remedy of the cubicle existence”, a line that sounds like it was taken from the script of the movie Fight Club. Although, it does seem to be a “nicer” version of the Fight Club we saw in the movie but they do get pretty brutal. At 7:49 in the video, it shows a man being beaten with a keyboard.

The gentleman’s fighting club holds matches in a car garage, and since it’s a “geek” fight club, they’ve even included a mural of a computer in the background. There are two rules or guidelines in this gentleman’s fight club: One, don’t cripple your friend.  And two, don’t make anyone cry.

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What do you think guys, is this something you’d be interested in trying?

In Silicon Valley we have the highest concentration of aggressive people in the United States. And it’s a place where all life has been reduced to working in a cubicle and then after work going out to have a Merlot at the Fromage bar. I’m kind of looking for something a little more primitive, a little more basic, something that appeals to the essential nature of a man.

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