I thought I had the balance right with my lad. He was a judoka, plays on the front row in Union to district level and second row in league. He’s powerful and he knows it, and the rugby means he is “collision-ready” but so far has managed to use his gob to stay out of fights, despite the best efforts of the various idiots at school who see him as a bit of a trophy.
I have just had the dis/pleasure of watching a video one of his mates took on Monday. The tale is that a kid who spent year 7 abusing and threatening my lad and his twin sister before leaving in a “managed move” had threatened my lad over facebook. A few hours of ripping later and the kid swore he would shank my lad and get someone to **** up his sister. The kid appeared out of the blue when my lad and his girlfriend were chilling down at the local park, and immediately started on him. There are something like three minutes of footage of my lad simply standing with his arms folded while the kid gestures, points, threatens, swears, and then when he relaxes and turns away knees my lad in the balls and punches him twice to the face/jaw.
My lad moves in and throws him with a hip throw, and you can hear the crunch as his elbow and humerus took the full force of the throw. Whoops. Despite the fact that the idiot continues to threaten him my lad rings the ambulance, puts his arm in a makeshift sling and walks him to meet the paramedics. Kid was in surgery yesterday, and my lad feels genuinely sorry for him, saying that the kid didn’t have the skills to resolve the whole thing without trying to fight.