Fighting, like everything else in the human experience, never goes that well the first time someone does it. I’m sure that the famous lover Don Juan’s first sexual experience with a woman was probably only 30 seconds long and mostly enjoyed only by himself. I don’t care who you are when you’re in your first fight and you get your face punched hard, it is a revaluation.
I remember that.
I was about 12 or so when I pushed this guy down a canal bank for hitting me with his nunchuka.
He was down there for a bit sprawled out, then he came back up and punched me in my jaw, then I ran away.
Nobody ever told me about that. Thanks, dad. Ow.