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They started banging on his tiny little car and so he instantly started just driving through them like no tomorrow with his face in battle mode and they started scattering.M.

Awesome. Every time I see one of those videos of the mob pounding on a car full of Americans, and pulling them out to beat that anoose, I have fantasies about mashing the gas pedal and flattening a couple of them as I laugh like a maniac and burn rubber.

I even cuss at the victims, screaming at them what they should do (in my head).

The trick is to run over scenarios before hand, and when the time comes, instinct takes over. No time for panic or freezing up. Mental training.

Calm, cool, and collected. Like a machine.

Tell your DH I like the cut of his gib.

BERSERKER - kek!

I 'sense' we've moved on too early from last nights battle-bots, when in fact it might of just been a test to see how we'd respond.

Perhaps we should have a 'lessons learned' meeting and discuss- oh wait! That's already happened. Good show!

It was a brutal beatdown, wasn't it?

Some of us prefer the gentler approach...

So next time,

perhaps try this:

The trick is to run over scenarios before hand, and when the time comes, instinct takes over. No time for panic or freezing up. Mental training.

It's a drag race and the staging lights are fixin' to turn green. They're just debris on the track!

Seriously, the old custom I practiced when I worked in the inner city (which we affectionately called the Ghetto circa 1980) was to always, always leave yourself an out. Leave room in front of the car to go around the car in front of you, even it it meant hopping the curb and driving down the sidewalk. Be ready to gun it, turn, evade, anything to get away.

I even used to practice my "Rockford" turn, where you'd hit the gas in reverse, cut the wheel hard, hit the brakes just right, and do a 180, then slap it into drive and hit it pointing the other way. Never got to use that one, but it was fun trying to learn it.

Truth be known, my biggest fear was probably fear itself. Fear of the unknown. I think the fears today are a lot more real than they were in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio.

DH trained heavily in Kyokushinkai (sp?) from 15 or 16 in PL (basically full contact), and then mixed once he came to the US, heavy on kung fu. Let’s just say he can be hair trigger easily and when sparring needs to hold back to make sure he doesn’t cripple or kill anyone. He hasn’t trained for about 2-3 years and misses it.