How about just saying “Sorry or don’t get into fights in the first place”.
It’s fair to say that our sign written truck gets some attention good and bad. Although it could be said all advertising is good advertising.
Anyway a few weeks ago myself and a two of my senior students in age (sorry guys) and grade, deployed up north for a 5-day course.
We were all staying in what could be described as a working men’s hotel full of hard working people living for the weekend to come so they could go back home. Having been in the Army for years I know how they feel.
At the end of each day we would arrive back at the hotel around the same time these guys would, all looking for a parking space, apart from we would be carrying our sweaty training clothes from the day and they would often be carrying a few cans for the evening. Why not!
Each day one or two would say nice truck or just hello! Each day the conversation grew from “nice truck” to “so are you guys Krav Maga instructors” to “what you doing up here?" Each evening I would find myself momentarily looking out of my hotel room window into the carpark watching them polish off those cans of beer thinking to myself “I hope they don’t get rowdy and have a pop at the truck or even us when we come back from eating out”.
About the fourth night after returning from dinner, just when all three of us had got out of the truck, we were approached by two of the working lads with this very question. "So guys how do you end a fight in 3 seconds?" For a moment my heart sank as I thought to myself “I didn’t think it would be long before something happened”. What happened next was music to my ears. Both my students as if they had planned it both said at the same time - “don’t get into fights or hang around places where fights happen..simple” to which I then replied "or just be the stronger person and just say SORRY to the person looking for a fight whether you’re right or wrong... be the better man!". We all looked at each other and smiled.
A lame reply maybe, and not the answer the working lads wanted to hear, but definitely the one I wanted to hear my students say. Long story short stick to the principles of avoidance and de-escalation first.... falling back to the physical only if you really have to.
