Whew! Glad he recognized you while you could still laugh about it.
I did that scene for a few years and had some wild experiences. After a few months I stopped getting the adrenaline rush (don't miss those shakes at all) and haven't felt one since. You notice something and you move with no deliberation and no emotion. I dealt with angry commercial fishermen and redneck oilfield workers vs. foreigners, nightclub cowboys with their search for recreational weekend fights and the dopers with their funny little plastic bags. Overall, it was a good classroom for my Reality Check 101 studies. Advanced studies came from working as a corrections officer. Anyone interested in application of gung fu should put himself in harm's way once in awhile, even if only in sporting competitions, or security gigs.
So, Dragon, I'm glad you are getting the experience. But be careful, brother. The gangs are worse than when I was your age. And don't stay at it too long. Give yourself a break once in awhile to be around people for whom self destrution is not a lifestyle.
Be well. John
p.s. Have you learned how to "swim" through a crowd?
"Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourself against fresh fruit."
For it breeds great perfection, if the practise be harder then the use. Sir Francis Bacon
the world has a surplus of self centered sh1twh0res, so anyone who extends compassion to a stranger with sincerity is alright in my book. also people who fondle road kill. those guys is ok too. GunnedDownAtrocity