The most important thing about fighting I learned in my youth: If you fight expect to be hit. Sounds overly simple, but if you resign yourself to the fact YOU WILL BE PUNCHED, nothng is a surprise.
Yup. And as my Dad always said “Hit like you mean it’’. That goes along with what I was taught in karate: Follow through. Fully extend your strike with objectivity, speed, power and determination. Fascist Girl made one of the classic mistakes of not only a wimp but a stupid Leftie who doesn’t know how to fight. She made a half-hearted strike, backed off , probably thinking either she hit the guy hard enough or scared him off and without blocking any incoming blows walked right into the punch the guy through at her.