Shaolinwind
2nd Black Belt
Ok, I'll keep it short and cut out a lot of the dirty laundry. This morning I was physically attacked from behind without notice. I was bruised and bloodied.
The offender was my younger brother, fresh out of jail on bail. While exchanging serious words about screw ups, and him spitting in the face that did him a favor, he flew off the handle and I was sitting in the car in front of him *driving* the car with my mother in the passenger seat. So self defense was a little on the difficult side.
A quick pull over, a couple blocks and out of the car (luckily I was only a quarter mile from work). I would have very much loved an opportunity to lay some serious Fu down at that point, having been the victim of a very cowardly attack and bleeding from my face. Yeah, my pride was hurt. "I'm a semi-trained fighter.. I don't go down by some punk meth addict with a temper." But guess what.. It ended there. No more of it, I walked the rest of the way to work, let my mother drive off with him in the car, didn't call the police, went to the locker room at work and washed up. I looked like hell.
He will be staying with her 4 hours away at the hotel her travel assignment gave her, and then he will be going to the courthouse to enter a plea, and I believe the lawyer has advised a plea of guilty.. Frankly, there is no contest. He's guilty, he was caught and he has a record. He's going to jail soon enough, and since I didn't choose to retaliate I am NOT going to jail.
I'd like to think it was knowing what I am capable of doing that stopped me from doing it.. Not to mention the fact that I was right in front of my own mother certainly factored in.. Imagine her horror if her eldest son was bleeding from a sucker attack from her younger son, and imagine her now having to endure watching her younger son have his ribs cracked? No thanks, not by my hands.
Martial arts teach a wonderful ability, the ability to not fight. That of course doesn't stop my head from hurting.
The offender was my younger brother, fresh out of jail on bail. While exchanging serious words about screw ups, and him spitting in the face that did him a favor, he flew off the handle and I was sitting in the car in front of him *driving* the car with my mother in the passenger seat. So self defense was a little on the difficult side.
A quick pull over, a couple blocks and out of the car (luckily I was only a quarter mile from work). I would have very much loved an opportunity to lay some serious Fu down at that point, having been the victim of a very cowardly attack and bleeding from my face. Yeah, my pride was hurt. "I'm a semi-trained fighter.. I don't go down by some punk meth addict with a temper." But guess what.. It ended there. No more of it, I walked the rest of the way to work, let my mother drive off with him in the car, didn't call the police, went to the locker room at work and washed up. I looked like hell.
He will be staying with her 4 hours away at the hotel her travel assignment gave her, and then he will be going to the courthouse to enter a plea, and I believe the lawyer has advised a plea of guilty.. Frankly, there is no contest. He's guilty, he was caught and he has a record. He's going to jail soon enough, and since I didn't choose to retaliate I am NOT going to jail.
I'd like to think it was knowing what I am capable of doing that stopped me from doing it.. Not to mention the fact that I was right in front of my own mother certainly factored in.. Imagine her horror if her eldest son was bleeding from a sucker attack from her younger son, and imagine her now having to endure watching her younger son have his ribs cracked? No thanks, not by my hands.
Martial arts teach a wonderful ability, the ability to not fight. That of course doesn't stop my head from hurting.
