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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arcane Runes Press" data-source="post: 378697" data-attributes="member: 402">Ayep.That's why my sifu always stresses the fact that you should never spar/goof around with people who don't train.It ALWAYS seems to end up in the situation you described above, with some jackass who's absolutely desperate to prove his "toughness".It's happened to me too and, like you, I found that swallowed anger tastes pretty damn bitter. So, I never bother to show people anything of my training, and always divert questions about how "good" I am at martial arts to some other topic. It just isn't worth it.Ah well. You did the right thing. Not the gratifying thing, but the right thing nonetheless. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Patrick Y.  PS: I'm glad to see this discussion maintain its civility. Discussions of Martial Arts online usually disintegrate quickly, like blind men arguing about the color red.</blockquote>