Who are you... "I am Batman!"
For only the second time in my life I got knocked out this weekend. Not full down for the count bell rings and it is over kind but the defiantly not standing kind. My brother and I were slap boxing when I was in my mid teens and I leaned in to a punch. That was the first time.
If it has never happened to you let me describe it for you. Physically what happens is simple, pressure is applied to your jaw while it is open about half an inch. The jaw becomes a lever turning your head. Pinching a nerve at that causes a 'short circuit' in your nerves system. Your field of vision narrows and motor function is interrupted. With some practice you can train yourself not to fall down. I am not practiced at this and I fall down.
Before you start thinking of me in a bar somewhere punching it out with a gang of bikers, I need to tell you it was a choreographed stunt fight. I do stunt fighting at Scarborough faire, the local renascence faire.
The fight in question is a comical fight of cheep shots between me and a Pirate Captain named Latamer (Novie Bowden). It is lots of three stooges stuff and kicks to the 'jimmies.' We have done this fight dozens and dozens of times and worked it to the point it looks really good and is hilariously funny. We are both really proud of it. For the record I will work with Novie any time any where and trust him with my life. He is best stuntman I ever worked with. Nor him or I know were we missed the punch, he did not know he had made contact. I went down to a nee and popped back up. When I came up I did not know were in the fight I was or really want I was doing. Novie not only covered me but did not even miss a beat. I was suppose to lead the next set of punches and did not know where I was. He took over jumped ahead in the fight to his next section we did that while Dan came back from blank-look-land. Then fell right back into the swing as I went back and did my part. Accidents will happen, it is the measure of talent when you recover and keep going. Not one person in the audience knew anything was wrong or that is not the way the fight normally goes. Thanks Novie… see you tonight to work on the next fight.