Again, I probably got a bit carried away with the language, but when I say "hit back", I mean what my examples said: They got me with x, so I learned how to def

Again, I probably got a bit carried away with the language, but when I say "hit back", I mean what my examples said: They got me with x, so I learned how to defend from x. They got me on y, so I learned how to defend from y. Sometimes it takes a gut punch to learn how to block a gut punch.