Fight! Fight! Fight!

IdleRich

IdleRich
People who care about that sort of thing seem to think that boxing is a pretty decent option, because a) punching people really hard in the face is fundamentally quite effective b) boxing involves actually going for it at full force against opponents who are really out to beat you rather than just drilling / doing "light sparring" and c) related to that, boxers tend to train pretty hard and pretty effectively because that's how you get punched in the face less.
Definitely it would have been advantageous to have any kind of fighting mindset. I'm sure I acted like the biggest pussy - at least in part cos the situation was so completely alien to me.
 

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Definitely it would have been advantageous to have any kind of fighting mindset. I'm sure I acted like the biggest pussy - at least in part cos the situation was so completely alien to me.

Dunno, I mean if you and your mates got out without being badly hurt then that sounds fine to me. Too much of a "fuck yes get stuck in" mentality might have made things worse...
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Dunno, I mean if you and your mates got out without being badly hurt then that sounds fine to me. Too much of a "fuck yes get stuck in" mentality might have made things worse...
Also true, but I think that that was by luck. I mean maybe if I had some sort of fight training and had mentally stepped back and dispassionately observed what was happening I would have recognised that the right thing to do was to show a clean pair of heals and I would have done roughly the same thing (perhaps with slightly more panache). What I'm trying to say is that I think it's good to know that you did the righ thing for the right reason, not just by luck, so you know that next time you will do it right too.

In general if I studied self-defence it would be for the reason in the name - to defend myself from harm. It's not like I wanted to hurt those guys and I don't really want that now (though I think Aidan and Max probably do - and I don't think they are wrong to think that, I'm not trying to claim any moral high ground here).

I think on this occasion, the way that he went straight for the bottle, like he was absolutely trying to hit Aidan with a bottle, to do serious damage - to me that's not a fight you want to be in. I have no doubt in my mind that if he had had a knife he would have used it. Maybe his girlfriend just dumped him or he'd lost his job or whatever but he wanted to get his revenge on the world and right then and there we represented the world.
 
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