Guys,
Since I have been out of the Marine Corps I have not used Martial Skill unless through competition. Screwing around with the buds does not count.
This evening I had to. I had just gotten off the phone with our good pal zDom, went outside to my car.
I have this drunkard neighbor that has a record of beating the snot out of his kids, wife, and mother in law. A few weeks ago he stepped on his wife's foot that just had surgery. This guy is a jerk.
Well I had made it to my car and I heard "Hey tough guy". ***A side note - Quote cleaned up for posting purposes*** I just out of instinct turned and dropped into a wide shallow h-stance, dropped the hips in perfect rotation and reverse punched. I mean this guys right hand knocked my St. L Cardinal ballcap off, which means he intended to hit me in the back of the head. Yikes!
The punch hit him square in the solar plexus and knocked him out cold. I was reaching towards his right wrist to perform a wrist lock but he was on his way to the deck. The guy was bleeding out of his ear, very scary. I quickly pulled the phone out of my pocket and called the police. Luckily I live all of 2 minutes from the police station. They were there before he woke up.
I told them what happened, the cop told me...."Sir, you have an American Flag and Marine Corps standard hanging by your garage. He has a record and you're not in the wrong. Time to take him away."
So he wore shiny bracelets and got to ride in the nifty car.
You know, I absolutely feel bad. The last thing I hate is confrontation, invited or otherwise.
The thing is I love competition, that is one thing that really drives me. I hate fighting, now 3 hours later I still kinda feel like I did something wrong even though I didn't. First time I have had to defend myself, instead of someone else since the early 90's. Who else can identify? Thoughts? Opinions?
I called and talked to Bill Evans and GM about it, there response was, "Are you hurt? We know you, you don't even go to places that invite nonsense, you didn't do anything wrong. Don't worry."
Since I have been out of the Marine Corps I have not used Martial Skill unless through competition. Screwing around with the buds does not count.
This evening I had to. I had just gotten off the phone with our good pal zDom, went outside to my car.
I have this drunkard neighbor that has a record of beating the snot out of his kids, wife, and mother in law. A few weeks ago he stepped on his wife's foot that just had surgery. This guy is a jerk.
Well I had made it to my car and I heard "Hey tough guy". ***A side note - Quote cleaned up for posting purposes*** I just out of instinct turned and dropped into a wide shallow h-stance, dropped the hips in perfect rotation and reverse punched. I mean this guys right hand knocked my St. L Cardinal ballcap off, which means he intended to hit me in the back of the head. Yikes!
The punch hit him square in the solar plexus and knocked him out cold. I was reaching towards his right wrist to perform a wrist lock but he was on his way to the deck. The guy was bleeding out of his ear, very scary. I quickly pulled the phone out of my pocket and called the police. Luckily I live all of 2 minutes from the police station. They were there before he woke up.
I told them what happened, the cop told me...."Sir, you have an American Flag and Marine Corps standard hanging by your garage. He has a record and you're not in the wrong. Time to take him away."
So he wore shiny bracelets and got to ride in the nifty car.
You know, I absolutely feel bad. The last thing I hate is confrontation, invited or otherwise.
The thing is I love competition, that is one thing that really drives me. I hate fighting, now 3 hours later I still kinda feel like I did something wrong even though I didn't. First time I have had to defend myself, instead of someone else since the early 90's. Who else can identify? Thoughts? Opinions?
I called and talked to Bill Evans and GM about it, there response was, "Are you hurt? We know you, you don't even go to places that invite nonsense, you didn't do anything wrong. Don't worry."
Glad it worked out ok.
