So today I got accosted by man who was very angry and clearly mentally unstable/delusional irrational but very aware and in control of himself.
Verbally trying to diffuse the situation wasn't going to/ didn't work because he was irrational (he wanted to attack me because I was a white man wearing black clothing and to him that meant I was racist)
I believe he had a knife due to the way he kept his body around his right jacket pocket.
I did stuff I've learnt through hard learned experience (London is a violent shit tip) and from reading.
I kept distance, I wasn't aggressive, I looked for escape routes and for other people and I was in a very subtle athletic position - ready to fight or run if he got off his bike.
I thought I was going to have to fight or run.
Obviously this was very scary.
I managed to stay as confident sounding as possible and he eventually got bored and went.
When I was younger I'd have freezed and got assaulted by this obviously predatoryan. Nowadays I don't. But... My adrenaline spikes massively and actually interferes with me making a choice on how to act.
I'm lucky that any self defence situation I've been in I have been alone and only had to think of my own safety.
With a child on the way and London getting increasingly divided and violent I need to learn how to channel controlled aggression into violent action.
How do I learn to do this because if I'm with my wife and child running isn't an option
How do I channel aggression to overcome fear and act in a different way to what my adrenaline wants me to do?
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 12:46PM by Lupercal111 https://ift.tt/2QJD2ld
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