One night I'd been out with my girlfriend and one of her friends and we were walking home at about 2am. As we were waiting at the lights, these three black guys pull up and one of them yells out something lewd to the girls, "I'm gonna fuck you in the ass, bitch!" or something like that. I'd had a couple drinks and I was feeling belligerent and so I gave them the finger and yelled out something about how they were cocksucking faggots. Sure enough they yell some shit back ("We're gonna kick your fuckin head in" etc) and they all get out. One of them had one of those club steering wheel locks and was holding it like a baseball bat. Because I had the girls with me, we couldn't really run so I thought fuck it, I may as well do my best. I've been doing wing chun kung fu for about 4 years so it wasn't as bad as it could have been, but I was still pretty freaked... I kept thinking about what might happen to the ladies id I went down.
I figured the guy with the club was the biggest threat so I went for him first. As he was swinging I stepped in and jammed his elbow, then slid my hand down to his wrist and broke his elbow with my other hand. I'd practiced it tons of times in sparring but actually doing it was quite a different matter, I can't describe what it felt like to snap someone's arm back the wrong way. The sound was fucking freaky too, kind of like a sharp-but-wet crack. Still holding his wrist I chopped him in the neck with the other hand, I just missed totally crushing his windpipe and he fell over making choking noises.
The next guy was to my left and coming in for a tackle. I turned to face him and as he came in, I simultaneously kneed him in the face and elbowed him at the base of the neck. He slumped off and I gave him a heel strike to the jaw as he was falling.
I shouldn't have gone for the second strike though, because it gave the third guy time to pick up the club. As I was turning to face him he smacked my in the side with it and fuck it hurt. I was shocked for a moment and he smoked me with it again. I skipped back out of the way and he swung another couple of times. He overswung on the third attempt and I stepped in and kicked him in the knee. Round kicks in wing chun don't aim to break the leg, they just skim the kneecap with the knife edge of the foot and pretty much rip it off, and that's what happened. The guy's knee folded and he fell. As he was falling I stepped in and elbowed him in the face and his head snapped back quite gratifyingly. When he was on the ground I stomped on him a few times. The second guy was starting to get up again and the first had stopped choking so even though they were pretty fucked up, the girls and I just ran for it.
