[QUOTE}Any advice from anyone on what else I could start doing? Basically all I've got so far are front kick, and low roundhouse....any ideas for anything that would actually work against an opponent? [/b][/quote]
You did right... MA is only a conduit for your defense, just studying the combos does not a good fighter make.
when in such a situation it reveals to you that all the training you do, all the things you know and can try and need to do and should do and and then you get overwhelmed and freeze...
everyone does it...
you proved to yourself that in such a situation you were present enough to get out of the situation, its too easy to go "this ain't happening" and then its too late...
the only tip one can provide is not based on what to do, but on what not to do...
it's called zazen, where you have total awareness of what is going on around you, all sounds, sites and feelings.. but at the same time you have a totally empty mind, not so you are day dreaming, you need to provide adequate response to your stimuli...
essentially this is a way to control your fear and allow you to respond to a situation correctly... keeping the mind empty (not thinging about what to do next if he does this and you do that) and awareness of what is happening means that when the jock grabs you, you know that you need to stop him and you respond in the simplest and quickest way... it doesn't have to be good, or perfect or even 'right' it just has to
be, do what you do, then do what you do next... act now and think later.
I think kung fu is good in this respect as part of the training is 'sticky hands' which gets you used to actually responding to an attack without necessarily 'seeing' it and without it actually being one...
anyway, enough...
well done and glad you are safe, your training has served you well (even though you feel it hasn't)... reward yourself with some more training
