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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 655403" data-attributes="member: 812">Umbran has the right of this.Learn how not to fight. Learn how not to be afraid and assume a victim role from the outset. Learn to control yourself and others, and you will find you can make it impossible for people to attack you.I face a very similar situation to you and suffered a bad beating. The only reason I didn't die was because my attackers didn't bother to finish me off (one of them began to strangle me with a belt but changed his mind and walked away). There was nothing I could have done.The next night, I took another midnight stroll through the same park where I'd been attacked the night before. I still walk around late at night. I've studied aikido and kendo and traditional kenjutsu -- none of which are forms usually thought of when people speak of "fighting" arts. I haven't gotten into another real fight since then -- that was ten years ago and I've studied a lot and learned a lot since then.About a year ago I was (as I still do) walking home late through a rather unpleasant stretch of downtown. A man got chased into my presence by baseball-bat-wielding thugs. One of them stabbed him in the chest with an icepick and threatened to stab me.You know what? I wasn't the slightest bit afraid. I knew he wasn't going to stab me. He was just checking to see if I was going to be a threat to him. Perhaps if I'd been frightened I might have puffed myself up, tried to be as tough as I could be. And gotten myself stabbed. Instead, having learned as I had how not to fight, I didn't. I waited for him to leave and then took the stab victim to the hospital, where he survived.The best thing you can possibly do is learn about yourself. Learn about people and the way they behave. What they want and why they do the things they do. Martial arts can bring you that knowledge. So can other avenues of study. I like swords and so have spent most of my life learning how to use them. Not because I actually want to cut anyone up, but because the process teaches me things about myself and helps me to understand others.And that more than anything has kept me out of fights and out of dangerous situations.</blockquote>

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