Oh boy. I will never forget the last fight I was in. It was when I was in year 9. I will not go into the specifics of how the situation occured but I can explain the actual fight itself, since I'll never truly forget it.
He shoves me back a few times and then he grabs my neck. He doesn't exert any pressure though so I swat his hand away. He powerfully shoves me back this time and I stumble back. He closes the distance. I was a brown belt in Karate back then, two away from Black. He was a black belt in Tae Kwan Do.
"Go on then, hit me."
At that moment, my body just moved on its own. He did just give me permission to attack him. One moment I was standing still, the next I was recoiling my fist from his face. I don't even know how my body moved from a stationary position so swiftly. I didn't even feel the punch connecting. My opponent had no chance of guarding such an attack either, it was so quick. He stumbles back a lot and momentarily covers his face with his hands.
A perfect opportunity to continue on the offensive right? Unfortunately some sort of divine intervention kicked in and I couldn't move my body at all. If I was to take a guess, the fear of what I had just done had completely numbed my body, rendering it all but useless. I was a sitting duck. He recovers and punches me right in the face. I stumble back, but apart from that my body still won't move. He ends up punching my face around 4 to 5 more times. I don't actually feel any of the punches at all, probably due to the adrenalin rush.
A teacher then rushed in and stopped the conflict. I take a good look at his face. Tears are flowing out of his eyes like a gentle stream and blood is pouring out of his nose like a raging waterfall. My face was apparently heavily bruised - I couldn't feel any pain though - I suppose my face must have been numb. Even half an hour later, only my nose hurt internally for a bit, but then that pain subsided and I was fine.
I look back and realize how weak and pathetic I was back then. I had no real control over my body at all during that fight. Everything I did was from instinct drilled into me through my training. Ah well, I'm stronger now.