One of each.
I got punched in the face by a demented, dying patient. After I got over being stunned, I forgave him. However, I did turn him over to another nurse.
In college, I was going up the stairs in an enclosed stairway in a campus building during off hours, when the guy a step or so below me reached up under my skirt and grabbed my ass. I whirled around and swung my fist across his face and ran like hell. Last I saw him, he had blood coming out of his nose.
Not for a long time now but yes to both when I was younger.
I had a technique in high school to deal with some of the bullies, which was to let them hit me and smile at them. I have a hard head. Last time it happened the douche was yapping trying to fire me up and when that didn’t work he took a swing at me. Caught the punch on my jaw and rolled with it a bit, then turned the head back, stared him in the eyes and smiled. He walked away.
:rolleyes:
Yep, back in my drinking days. It’s proof that if you’re a big enough asshole and the other person is drunk too, a wheelchair is no protection against a punch (or several) in the face. 
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A few times in elementary school, in playground/bus roughhousing gone wrong. I don’t think I ever punched back.
Been punched in the face once as an adult, in stage combat gone wrong. A stage punch turned into a real punch, and I wound up with a bloody nose.
Opera is dangerous, folks.
Yes. Accidentally, in sparring, deliberately in self-defense drills and a couple of street fights. The sparring one was the worst. That’s how I learned you can hook off the jab without winding up, or at least he could.
The drills weren’t bad, since they wore the old foam plastic Safe-T-Punch gloves. The street fights weren’t bad at the moment, since I was too scared and angry to notice much beyond a bang and a jar.
We trained against punches, but we didn’t do a lot of punching back. Too hard on the hands, so we used more palms and elbows and chops and so forth as a way to open him up for grappling.
Haven’t been in a street fight in almost forty years. Thank God.
Regards,
Shodan
Yes to both, but I’m not sure whether it counts because— funny story— it turned out we were the same person.
Me too. Both to the jaw, both in the same 14-year old incident, and it cured me of ever wanting to get punched again.
I thought you weren’t supposed to talk about that.
I’ve never been punched in the face but, in high school (1988-91), I punched a couple guys in the face. I was a pretty skinny dude and figured that I wasn’t going to win any fights by hitting someone in the stomach or shoulder. So, the couple times it got to blows, the other guy usually took the safe route of a body punch and I’d pop him in the face. Plus if you’re going to get in trouble for fighting at school, you might as well make it count. Never saw anyone get in less trouble for half-assing it – we both got the same suspensions.
It’s happened to me twice. The first time was when I was 16. There was a kid at school I used to hate and he used to enjoy winding me up. Nothing too severe, just nasty comments. Anyway, one day he pushed me a little too far and we had a fight the corridor. Funnily enough, after that we became quite good friends.
The second time was when I was working at a bar and a fight kicked off between a few drunks outside just after closing time. It was a weekday, usually quiet, so we didn’t have any doormen on. All the male bar staff ended up getting involved and we eventually chased them off the property.
In my (albeit limited) experience, while getting punched in the face does hurt, unless you get punched by a big guy or someone who knows what they’re doing (and most people don’t), it doesn’t hurt that much. And i’ve got to be honest, I found both experiences to be just indescribably fun. Like, a total, total rush. I’d never recommend violence to anybody, but to paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, “it works well for me”.
Yes, to both.
It really is unpleasant. Was given a proper kicking by a bully when I was 14. Was convinced by my cousins that I couldn’t just let it go so I went after him. Did terrible damage to this kid. Both incidents still bother me (haunt me actually).
Ugly fight in college as well. I truly hate fighting and it really should be the last resort (as in, you’re defending yourself or your loved ones from serious harm).
The worst thing is that there are people who actually enjoy fighting (and who aren’t being paid for it).
Not in a long time, but I was usually the smallest kid in class growing up. I proved in the earlier grades that I would fight back, and hard. As a result I didn’t have to fight in the upper grades.
37 years of martial arts. I suspect I haven’t endured twice-as-many face-punches (or kicks) as Ethilrist, though. Probably more than twice-as-many, due to other aspects of my youth.
But some of those 37 years have been training with a katana – I’m really glad I’ve never take one of those to the face – as well as other martial weapons.
–G!
I went to a private elementary school through sixth grade, and then my parents enrolled me in a public junior high school.
A ninth grader at the school who lived next door told me I would have trouble being accepted. He said the best advise he could give me was to get punched in the face as soon as possible. He explained to me that getting punched in the face was something that people are usually afraid of, but that it wasn’t as bad as the scenes one sees in a movie. And because of this fear, people hesitate to fight back. Not fighting back just means the taunting will go on and on.
Day one I got sucker punched right on my chin. A teacher saw the whole thing so I didn’t get in trouble. But my friend was right. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. After several “pushing” fights that I fought hard in, things calmed down. I never got punched in the face again, but I did go into the fights I was “forced” into with more confidence knowing that if I did get punched in the face, it wouldn’t be that big a deal.
I grew up in a rural area next to the coal fields; I can’t think of a face I grew up with I didn’t punch at one time or another. And pretty much all of them get a shot in somewhere along the line. For us broken noses were more a matter of fact than worthy of note. The rule was though, unless it was a more serious-in-actual-anger fight, to stay away from the mouth. Noses could be forgiven - broken teeth required a doctor. And since none of us had any money for doctors --------
Yes to the first, no to the second.
Headbutts leave bigger lumps in my experience.