Winter Borne
Member
I always thought I was ready for anything. College wrestler and boxer, a few years of mixed martial arts, plus the 20 years I have been a shooter all failed me today as I was walking in broad daylight in downtown San Francisco. Luckily for me, it was a just a street crazy with no real intent to do me harm.
I am out here this week for business and am unfamiliar with the city. I was taking a stroll alone at lunch on a crowded street, paying much more attention to what / where to eat when I was almost knocked on my a$$ by a smaller but very fast moving homeless guy. This was not an accidental bump; he came at me at full speed with his shoulder to my chest muttering nonsense. I was so shocked by the suddenness of the incident that we was 5 yards past me before I could even THINK about reacting. I was immediately shocked, then pissed at myself for being so caught off guard. Had he had a knife I'd be writing from a hospital or not at all. I never even saw him coming until he connected and by then it was too late.
Afterwards, I had every counter move play slowly through my head to what I could have / should have done. He was moving so fast that a judo shift would have rendered him harmless, or even put him on his back, but I was 45-60 seconds too late...he was already gone, and all I did was stand there dumb founded!
No harm than God, but a huge eye opener to me that I can share with all of you. Trouble does not call ahead, and I now know there will not be much if any warning before you are engaged with a combatant.
mk
I am out here this week for business and am unfamiliar with the city. I was taking a stroll alone at lunch on a crowded street, paying much more attention to what / where to eat when I was almost knocked on my a$$ by a smaller but very fast moving homeless guy. This was not an accidental bump; he came at me at full speed with his shoulder to my chest muttering nonsense. I was so shocked by the suddenness of the incident that we was 5 yards past me before I could even THINK about reacting. I was immediately shocked, then pissed at myself for being so caught off guard. Had he had a knife I'd be writing from a hospital or not at all. I never even saw him coming until he connected and by then it was too late.
Afterwards, I had every counter move play slowly through my head to what I could have / should have done. He was moving so fast that a judo shift would have rendered him harmless, or even put him on his back, but I was 45-60 seconds too late...he was already gone, and all I did was stand there dumb founded!
No harm than God, but a huge eye opener to me that I can share with all of you. Trouble does not call ahead, and I now know there will not be much if any warning before you are engaged with a combatant.
mk