Hello everyone. My friends and I play games every Friday night. If we all can make it we play Dungeons and Dragons (D & D role playing game). If only some then we play other games like Talisman, Arkham Horror 1st, 2nd, or 3rd edition, or Pathfinder. We really enjoy this time, because we get so involved into the story some of these game make and some of the epic events that happen during the game.
Well just this Friday we all were able to meet up and play our beloved D & D. It had been about 5 months since we played last, because one of our players had to leave for 5 months. So I was supper pumped about playing Friday; just because it has been so long. All in all the night went amazingly well. We talked, laughed, strategized, and of course role played.
Once the game session was done for the night we ended up talk about it even more until 1:30 am. So as we always do we head out to our cars to head home, but this is where the night takes a turn. As I go to my car I see someone try and drive on the park grounds. Which I am closely parked buy. He ends up getting stuck. Inside I am thinking to myself "ha deserves you right for being an idiot". Then as I start my car and start to clean my car off. He comes out of the car and start to walk towards me. I am already thinking "oh no he is gonna ask for help and I already know I am going to say yes". I don't mind helping people out of unfortunate events, but ones they cause themselves by being purposely stupid I rather not, but I will still help, because it is still the right thing to do.
So he ask me and I say yes, then my friends in the other vehicle were puling out to leave, then the man bangs on my friend 2 window (a bit hard) to ask him as well. My friend 2 opens the door and talks with him, but he was being a very rude towards him, but my friend 2 quickly diffuses the situation and says they will help too.
Now this is where things get sketchy. The man open up the back door and leans in to grab my blind friend 3 out and tell him that he had to get out and help too. I quickly pull him back gently, because that was uncalled for, but the man reply's to my light physical gesture to moves back. Now my friend 1 who has endured the man banging on his car twice finally had enough after he went after his life long friend 3. he tell this man to leave and get out of here and no longer has any intentions to help him, but the man was not backing down. Maybe because my friend 1 looks like the king of all nerds, but I am thinking it was because this guy was drunk or on something. They were having a stare off and a few choice words.
Then it happened he punch my friend 1 in the face and broke his glasses and gave him a bleeding nose. This is where I step in. I will absolutely not tolerate any harm to come to people I care about. I took him down in seconds. I applied a choke since I was directly behind him and corkscrewed down to the ground to immobilize him as quick as possible; he was not gonna hit my friend 1 a second time. I called my friend 2 over to help with keeping him restrained, because well friend 2 was the one that was gone for 5 months, because he was teaching a course in the army about tactics. He is also a military police officer. So me and him him had the guy secured. I asked my Friend 3 to call 911 and then me and friend 2 waited 15 minutes on the ground for the cops to show up. During that time he threaten to kill me or find me, but I was not gonna move, because I did not even know if he had a weapon on him. It was a chance I was not willing to take.
So I learned a lot about myself that night. I feel grateful for learning about grappling and how to use my body to the best of my advantage and how to use there own body against them. I learned since in this situation it might have been easier to just make him pass out, but I did not feel confident enough to apply the right amount of pressure for the right amount of time. In a different situation I would, but I felt safe enough and was worried if I made him pass out what other possible complications could arise. With the years of training I have had at kung fu and had been in altercations before. I was able to stay calm and collected and was able to control the situation right away. It was a long 15 mins, but I was in completely relax state while inflicting the proper amount of encouragement to the guy for him to stay still.
It finally all ended about 3:30 am and I was finally able to go home and into bed so I could go to lion dance practice in 8 in halve hours. Well that was my night and hope to have no more, but I now know I have what it takes to protect people I care about.
Sifu Langner
