Why?

[Broadsword2004]

I remember this one martial arts expert, must be like a 6th degree blackbelt in karate, a 2nd degree in aikijutsu I think, and he was doing some self-defense work with some ukes (the lower-ranking senseis who volunteer to get thrown around by him), anyhow, his wife was like, "I don't think that would work....", or "That doesn't look real..." so then he's like, "WHADDYA MEAN IT DOESN'T LOOK REAL!?" POW! BAM! CRACK! God bless the poor ukes that day.......

[ChunGi]

[QUOTE=ipscshooter]
.................blocked several kicks, and when the other kid didn't quit attacking, my son knocked him on his butt with a reverse punch to the jaw. Due to my son's teacher's description of the events, my son got the minimum punishment available for being in a fight at school... 1 day suspension. The other kid got a week off.

Now, let's hear the criticism. "Oh boy, school yard fight... that really proves a lot." Well, it does prove a number of things. My son honorably defended a friend, risking his own well being in the process....QUOTE]

Dear J*sus:

Tell your kid to stop stepping up for buddies, it will only get him screwed. I have had 3 sharp edge weapons pulled on me, once from a mugging, and twice from trying to defend a buddy, once using fists and once using words. My story goes as is.

One day a guy called me and my friend Fags, so i said some curses back to them and we parted. Later I recieved threatening e-mails along the lines of, you and your friend are goign to get yoru asses kicked. My reply was cocky, being a black belt and at that time undefeated in my MMA tournament career. LIttle did I know, the people I was exchanging words with were members of a large Asian gang. The next day a few people showed up at school asking for me and carrying tennis raquet cases. After meeting these people I discovered that inside these tennis raquet cases were machete's and I was the target, after keeping my distance and exchanging words for 5 minutes the police showed up, and I was unable to press charges becasue I had "provoced the attack"
moral of my story, is that you should teach your kids only to defend them selves/and their family/loved one's, and instead get help from an authority for a friend, unless they know that defending another person will not cause them to be a target. Cause If i was less confident about my MA skills I would not have said anythign and then I wouldnt have had to deal with the situation.

I think your son did the right thing becasue its elementary school and he wasnt going to get killed for defending himself but once he gets into middle school and highschool the game changes. And if he goes out to bars when he is older and thinks he can kick everyone elses ass, he is sure to be the next victim of a drive by shooting. Or at least that the way it works where I live and I live in CANADA.