I do understand how you fell and I am glad that it turned out ok
I do know what it's like because I have been attacked before it was summer last year, I was just back from my work placement and My mum asked me to walk to the shops just across the road with my younger brother to get bread.
On our way down to the shops there was a group of neds:
(Neds are guys that wear track suits that try to pick fights, throw stones through windows, burn cars and other things. This is a picture of the "Johnstone young team" They are the gang of neds that are in the same area as myself (The guy in the middle right is Ryan walker he was in the year below me in school))
The group of neds at the shops started to throw some stones at my younger brother and myself, I told my brother not to take any notice just keep walking (They have done this to me before and the best way around it is to ignore them) We entered the shop and bought the 2 loaves of bread and on our way out the shopkeeper noticed the gang looking at us and told us to walk around a different way to avoid them.
My brother and I decided to walk behind the school to avoid them and as we went up the small path behind the school we saw 3 of them standing at the other end of the path walking towards us. I told my brother to stay behind me and not get involved (Last thing I want is neds bothering him because they want to pick a fight with me) The guy in the middle (who is 18) walked ahead of his 2 pals and came up to me saying he knew where I lived and he was going to burn my house down. I told him to jog off and to get out my face. He responded with more threats that ended up with him turning around and laughing walking back to his 2 pals.
I was slightly angry and started walking up behind him, He turned around and said "Who are you smirking at" To which I responded "Well Obviously You!" He opened up his bottle of Dr.pepper and chucked it over me and I lost my temper and hit him over the head with what I had in my hand, It was 2 loaves of bread, it did the trick though as he turned around and ran up the path and I followed behind him, I was pretty angry, and as I got close to him his other pal shoved me to the side and I fell to the ground.
At this point I was on the ground and he with his 2 pals began kicking me in the head and arms I managed to grab onto his leg and I began pulling myself up, his 2 pals ran off and I pulled the guy to the ground and he struggled to get away, I stood up and looked at him as I walked past to my brother. I told my brother we should go to my Pals house.
That's my experience with this sort of thing. Next time I will probably hit back however not doing anything to him but showing I can get back up after 3 of them were on me and pulling him to the ground will hopefully have sacred them a bit to stop them from bothering me.
After that incident I find it hard walking near the shops or along small paths because it is a scary experience.
The strange thing about being hit is that it doesn't hurt it's weird in a sense as you know you have been hit but you don't feel anything until after the adrenalin runs out
I find it helps to talk about it though and in the end of the day luriel you came out on top of that situation as not only the better fighter but the better man.