Fight videos from first-person perspective are extremely unusual. This one is shot by the helmet-mounted camera of a Russian motorcyclist. He and two others are riding through the woods on a path at a pretty impressive pace. Our biker speeds past his friends and eventually comes to a perpendicular auto-road. He slows down to merge, sees a silver minivan coming behind him from the other direction, and slowly merges.

He gets in front of the silver van which immediately honks, although our biker appears to be far enough on the roads edge that the driver could have passed him easily.

But apparently it warrants assault. After the driver honks, he yells briefly at the biker, then stops his car and comes out swinging.

It looks like he knocks the biker to the ground with the first punch, though that’s not tough to do when someone is balanced on a motorcycle. But it’s a bad idea to try and at someone in a helmet. Soon the biker gets up and throws the assailant to the ground.

The assailant tries to get up and is pushed tumbling into the tall grass. He gets up and tries to strike again, but the biker puts him down and strikes him, Then, intelligently, the assailant grabs around the biker’s legs and both flop to the ground. Eventually though, the biker manages to get up and mount his assailant. He holds him there and before he does anything the fight is stopped by pedestrians.

This video displays a pitiful and unwarranted act of aggression on the driver’s part. The biker shows a cool head and good restraint (even if he was protected by the helmet). It’s interesting to witness a fight from the go-pro perspective, and even more interesting to witness one so spontaneous!