![]() But if someone tries to crack your skull in a bar, then he is inevitably some random stranger who hates your guts. If you spar, then you are almost certainly sparring with people you know and like. There is great value in doing any kind of combat sport - they keep you fit and remove your terror of getting hit - but they can never replicate real violence. Someone wins almost immediately and the rest of it is nothing but damage. But you do down at the Rat & Trumpet at closing time. You don't get multiple assailants in a nice karate class. In a real fight all of these things happen. In sparring, you do not gouge your opponent's eyes or boot him in the testicles. Any kind of sparring has a code of honour. Any form of fighting in a controlled environment is nothing remotely like a real fight because there is the assumption of fairness. A real fight is also nothing like the gym. It is a cliché often repeated that a real fight is nothing like the movies. And a man needs to do more than merely fear it. ![]() It was not a good moment for either of us.īut it reminded me that violence is still out there. And when it was over, my daughter was looking at me as if she was seeing me for the very first time. And if the driver who nearly hurt my daughter and I had said one word to me then I would have knocked his head into the back seat. ![]() I was recently driving with my daughter, who is 14, when one of the global rich who are buying up our neighbourhood nearly ran us off the road in his shiny new black Mercedes.
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