Adrenalin+Nerves=Distress

Fastbolt-- I was on campus walking with some buddies and we stopped to play catch with a frisbee. I was knelt down watching, and another student who secretly had problems with me took the advantage of my defenseless and low-alert position to make an attack. His choice of engagement was tackling me. I hit my head so hard on the concrete, i hardly remember what happened next. I shoved him off me, stood up, and quickly assessed what had just happened. I saw the face of my attacker and was in shock that he would do such a thing, my thought giving him time to get up and re-engage. By this time is was a boxing match... which I won thankfully (he got stitches above his eye and fell to the ground, i got a shiner). If you can define a winner in such a fight... Either way i was just shocked at how distraught i was. If i had been thining like i do when i rough around with friends or am on the wrestling mat... that kid would have had some serious problems. The only thing that was going through my head to to strike him in the face as hard and as many times as i possibly could. When he fell to the ground i started to think again and walked away.
 
After a couple of intensive days of range training we start running students through live fire tactical houses. They go through 2-3 times, searching out and engaging bad guy targets and hopefully, holding their fire on the no-shoot targets. Once they are comfortable with moving and shooting we set them up with a Simunitions pistol & they have to locate and engage one of the instructors (who also has a Simunitions pistol). The student gets ONE round in his gun and the instructor ALWAYS waits until the student shoots before he returns fire. The vast and overwhelming majority of students (who enter the house with their pistol at low ready) pop off their one round right in front of their feet. Sometimes the instructor gets paint splattered on his boot. Yes, even students who have had professional training before do it. There's just something about engaging a real, live, human adversary who is holding a GUN that throws everything you *think* you'll do out the window, even when you *know* that it has non-lethal rounds in it and you're absolutely certain that you're not going to get a big hole blown in you.
 
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