My dad would tell the best stories. It seems that he was a bit of a “scrapper” back in the day. He grew up in the St. Louis area, graduated from high school weighing no more than 100 pounds, and he never backed down. As an adult, this proved to be an asset in business but in his youth, it meant some hard lessons.
Growing up, he would share stories where sometimes he was the hero and other times he was the instigator of schoolyard fights as a boy, pool hall altercations as a teen, and running from a large group, in the dark streets of Southern Illinois as a young adult.
As he reminisced, he would say things like, “I didn’t see that one coming, his hands were quick”, “I knew I had him”, “I could tell he was bluffing by his body language”, or “I quickly realized that I was in trouble when he started looking around for witnesses”. When I look back on all those statements now, I realize how vast the extent of dad’s ability to recognize and interpret pre-violence indicators really was.
This subject has such depth that there are thousands of books, articles, blogs, etc. that have been written about pre-assault cues. Let’s look at five pre-attack indicators that Dad probably used to measure if a fight was imminent.
www.shootingillustrated.com/content/recognizing-interpreting-pre-attack-indicators/