That's impressive, although my first reaction would be to matrix dodge left. I'm actually kinda scared of punching people for fear of doing serious damage. Perhaps that's a personal flaw of mine.
Thanks. I've blocked/dodged a few punches before even processing them. It was like "whoa, WTF just happened?" :laughing:
I have the same fear, which is why I won't hit anyone unless I have no other choice. The first time I hit someone I knocked nine of their teeth loose and made their shirt look like it had a dark red bib. I was five and the other person was an older girl that was hitting me in the head with a large tree branch. She ran home, screaming, and her mom looked at me like I was an animal. I just shrugged and said "I asked her to stop and she didn't, so I hit her back".
A similar thing happened when I was testing for my green belt. In Tang Soo Do we practice all of our techniques at full power and full speed, stopping a literal fraction of an inch away from our training partner. Well, my free-sparring partner for the test was a female, who was about my age, and she let her guard drop. I saw a perfect opening and was going to throw a reverse punch that stopped right in front of her face, to wake her up. I forgot to account for the thickness of the glove and popped her right in the nose, with a fairly light punch. She started bleeding from both nostrils, both eyes went black, and she says I might have broken her nose. I felt really bad and she was pissed. My instructors actually had to tell me to get back into the fight because all I was doing was blocking and dodging.
The guy from the story earlier only got hit once and he had a black eye for almost five weeks, along with a tear in his cheek from the contact which left a scar.
I really don't like hitting people because I know exactly what I can do...and I'm not exactly Hulk strong, either.