stoneheart
Purple Belt
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but luckily I escaped unscathed. Last night I attended a farewell happy hour for a coworker of mine who was leaving the company we work for. A group of us ended staying longer and it was around midnight when I was accosted by a hostile fellow club patron.
Apparently he mistook me for someone else (as I later found out). He accused me of interfering in his relationship with his girlfriend. It was loud in the bar and I didn't understand what he was saying when he first grabbed my shoulder. I sort of just smiled and said something unintelligible, surprised as I was.
He snarled at me and took a swing at me. I didn't think at all - this was all reaction. I stepped quickly to the inside of the hook punch and grabbed his wrist, pulling his arm to my waist as I simultaneously struck his nose with a knifehand. I suppose he was off-balance already or I had pulled more strongly than I thought because this guy was now face-to-face with me and falling onto me. Somewhat panicking, I kneed him somewhere in the midsection. This was really an ineffective blow unlike the knifehand but it at least set up a wrist lock takedown where I spun out the reverse way and forced him to the ground on his face.
The bouncers came over after that, and I found myself being tackled and restrained by a couple of them. After some sorting out, we found out why the guy had attacked me in the first place, and he apologized, but we both were evicted from the club. They didn't call the police, and I'm relieved about that.
I'll be honest. I feel fortunate for coming out of this altercation unharmed. I'm not the kind of guy who gets into fights at all, and this violence was totally unexpected. As I write this, I'm still a little (numb?) from last night, it was so unbelievable.
People, keep on training hard. You never know when you'll need your martial arts. This altercation was over in less than 5 seconds. It could have easily ended with a severe injury for me if my body hadn't automatically done something I had practiced thousands of times before.
Apparently he mistook me for someone else (as I later found out). He accused me of interfering in his relationship with his girlfriend. It was loud in the bar and I didn't understand what he was saying when he first grabbed my shoulder. I sort of just smiled and said something unintelligible, surprised as I was.
He snarled at me and took a swing at me. I didn't think at all - this was all reaction. I stepped quickly to the inside of the hook punch and grabbed his wrist, pulling his arm to my waist as I simultaneously struck his nose with a knifehand. I suppose he was off-balance already or I had pulled more strongly than I thought because this guy was now face-to-face with me and falling onto me. Somewhat panicking, I kneed him somewhere in the midsection. This was really an ineffective blow unlike the knifehand but it at least set up a wrist lock takedown where I spun out the reverse way and forced him to the ground on his face.
The bouncers came over after that, and I found myself being tackled and restrained by a couple of them. After some sorting out, we found out why the guy had attacked me in the first place, and he apologized, but we both were evicted from the club. They didn't call the police, and I'm relieved about that.
I'll be honest. I feel fortunate for coming out of this altercation unharmed. I'm not the kind of guy who gets into fights at all, and this violence was totally unexpected. As I write this, I'm still a little (numb?) from last night, it was so unbelievable.
People, keep on training hard. You never know when you'll need your martial arts. This altercation was over in less than 5 seconds. It could have easily ended with a severe injury for me if my body hadn't automatically done something I had practiced thousands of times before.