Ok, it was a freind, of a freind, drunk, and on "something". He got hostile, I stood up in between them, and put my right hand on his left shoulder (like one half of Hold the ball in Taiji Quan), and my other up to cover his allready chambred right fist.
It was about to start rocking, when I saw that I could probably disfuse things by dropping my guard (Leaving me wide open for a hard shot to the head), and saying "it's not worth it, let it go".
I did this, and for a split second envisioned getting myself knocked out for it. Between me, and the girl I was with, we did manage to clam him down though, so it worked out ok (She used to date him, and knew what, and how to say things). But for those seconds wile I had my guard down, even though he calmed a bit, I was really scared that I just made a major mistake. He would have had me if he wanted.
In the end, it turned out that I read the situation correctly, he only wanted to fight me because I was showing force by physically stepping between the two with my hands up and ready (He would have clocked the other person if I haden't though). By dropping my guard (Left side only, I kept the right up (my lead side here), and in contact with him to listen to his body language), I relaxed things a bit.
Anyone have any thoughts on situations like this? I could have stepped off to my left, and used something similar to Diagonal Cut to slam him in to the bar, and there would have been no question that way. But then I would have HAD to hurt him. There would have been no going back then. By doing what I did, I left myself way too open. I had real fear there for a few moments.
I was set to make him eat an elbow if something happened, BUT chances are I wouldn't have pulled it off soon enough with my left hand down and not jambing the incomming fist. Not to mention my ability to pull off the Diagonal Cut was dependant on me having my left guard up to controll his arm, and it wasn't
Comments anyone??