God bless man, hopefully you get back to normal soon, but age and injuries catch up to us all. If I were you I'd insist on being there for your son's training. As long as you aren't overbearing and interfering in the instruction that should be your right.
Again, thanks for the concern.
I thought of texting him today before open gym and explain that my son and I had a talk and he is not to look to me for approval and my reason for wanting to be there is so I can help him practice what he learns so retains more. The trainer and I do things a bit differently and I don’t want to teach my son differently when we work on some drills at home.
What’s funny is last night, he and I were working on jabs and his stance. I was there for that before I was asked to leave, so I was able to help him work what the trainer wants him to do. Anyway, while we were working together last night, he said he needs a picture of the main kid that has been trying to fight him at school.
This kid has been in school with my son since daycare when they were babies. He doesn’t have a good home life. He is on the poor side, his mom had him when she was 16-she used to work at subway where I would get my lunch sometimes-and not just because subway was free for cops, it actually used to be decent sandwiches before the franchise started using inferior meats. I think there is a lot of jealousy with this kid because my son has both parents and we live in a really nice house and have money. I have also arrested his biological father before and he isn’t really in the picture and he had a step-father that died and now he lives with his step-brother, who is a terrible little shit as well. This kid has giant ears and looks like a bat, so when he suggested a pic of him on the pads would motivate him, I jokingly pulled my ears out and made a stupid looking face and while I was still pulling out my ears, my little ass of a son threw a punch that hit me square in the nose. Having had broken my nose a few times training, it started to bleed a little, so the “just bleed gods” were very pleased with this. He felt bad, but I also think he was a little bit proud of himself, and so was I because he really cracked me.
With that said, I really stress that this training is to teach him to defend himself only and never for him to start a fight, especially at school, but these kids have threatened him repeatedly and cock back their fists like they are going to hit him and if they ever actually throw a punch, I want him to defend himself and maybe after he trashes them, they will back the fuck off.
I went through this as a kid. So called friends would sometimes gang up on me and they would have to do it with three or four others because I was a tough little fucker and would beat them 1:1 or even 2:1. Then I went to middle school and there were a lot of gangs and they targeted me because I was a “rich white boy” and I had to defend myself a few times. It was never a fair fight and I took my share of beatings, but I also knocked out some teeth on one kid and he got gold teeth and I ended up arresting this goof multiple times later on. He’s dead now after a shootout with someone who was a better shot. I was targeted even worse after that and had a gun pulled on me several times.
Then I went to private school to get away from that was planned anyway because my brothers went there as well. So some super rich kid whose parents were really wealthy oil barons from Saudi Arabia, used to fuck with me and called me a “poor ass,” quite different from being the rich kid. His parents bought him a Lamborghini and being 16 in the 9th grade, he drove it to school and acted like he was better than everyone else and thought that gave him the right to be a bully.
Anyway, last day of 9th grade, he spit chewed up food into my soup and asked me what I was going to do about it. After that last day of school, another kid threw a party and both of us were there and he started with me and shoved me. Not being in school where I would get in trouble, I knocked him out and no one ever fucked with me again. I want that for my son, but only in self-defense.
