Originally posted by Damian Mavis
You did exactly what you are supposed to do. You defended yourself from injury when he got angry and tried to hurt you and then you talked him down from having to hurt him. You did an extremely good job, I dont know why youre upset. If he attacked you after you tried to talk him down then you kick the crap out of him simple as that. But you already answered your question, martial arts training is about staying calm and keeping someone from hurting you which is exactly what you did, if it had gone further than of course you use your skills to fight.
Damian Mavis
Honour TKD
Right on. But I'll add my 2cents...
a) I thought the purpose of Muy Thai WAS to hurt someone...
b) You did you exactly what you should have. You restrained yourself from doing unnecessary harm and you defended yourself against his kicks/knees and he could probably tell that you could smoke him so he finally backed off. You probably could have taken him out even with no hands had you felt the need to do so. Again, the stuff worked like it is supposed to
c) In Kenpo Mr. Parker put in the Equation Formula so that even though we mostly train Violent responses designed to end a confrontation definitively (whew! :shrug: ) we can Alter our targets and weapons, Adjust our force, Regulate our Speed, Rearange our sequences, Insert, Delete, Prefix and Suffix major and minor strikes so that we Always have the option to either slap someone silly, or break every bone in their body.
I personally think that is very cool. But I bet you could do the same. What if you had to retaliate and did so at only half power? What if you didn't go for vital targets like his knees, but kicked to the inside of his thigh? You could let him know that he was in for it, and maybe even disable him with little more than a bruise to show for it.
This may be something you can take comfort it, but again, your skill and confidence persuaded your attacker to back off and as Sun Tzu said "the superior warrior is the one who achieves victory without having to do battle" or something like that. I saw the quote around here on MT.
Good work. If you had posted that a guy ran to push you out of the way of a falling bookshelf and you folded him in half and ruptured his spleen, then you should worry. But I agree with Damian that it worked like it should.
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