Can anyone give me some advice on getting over nerves when confronting someone who is aggressive?
Starting martial arts helped me with the same problem, I don’t mean to say you should get cocky or arrogant, but maybe taking up a martial art will help you like it did me, I would try something like kickboxing or any other art that has full-contact sparring to help get over the fear of being hit and/or beat up because, at least for me anyway, getting a little roughed up helped with the fear of being beat up and hit, now I don’t worry about getting beat up because it’s not like I haven’t been before lol
From the advice you have received already from the comments posted I think Josh K has the best advice so far. If you are looking at advice from a martial arts section then full-contact martial arts are a good recommedation. Your problem is common. I think it is commone especially if you spend your life trying to be decent with others and solve your differences without violence. It is easier for people to deal with aggressive people if they have done it all their lives. They have training, so to speak, in dealing with confrontation and aggressiveness. So, there is a need to train yourselves in an civilized and intelligent way to overcome these aggressive types who have been doing it all their lives. If you want to suddently get aggressive with them back then you are dealing with an expert who is a lot better at these situations than you. In my experience it is not like the movies where someone stands up for themselves and the bully backs down or the “good” guy wins the fight. You are de
