I was walking my dogs early on sat morning in a spot where everyone walks their dogs, I tend to go early so as to avoid others so I can let them off the lead without worry. It's a grassy walk over burrows beside a beach, quite remote. On the way back I'm always conscious to put the dogs back on lead if anyone is approaching. There is one blind corner and I came upon a woman walking her 2 westies with what I can only deem to be her son. Both I and them only managed to get 1 dog each on the lead and the other 2 dogs had a go. The son went mental (mid 30's so well an adult) and picked up a stick and started hitting my dog, on realising this wasn't causing an impact i.e. hurting the dog he threw the stick and started viciously kicking my dog. At this stage her dogs were both with her. I nearly lost my life, he was so vicious, I was screaming at him that they were just puppies (8 month old border collies, not aggresive dogs) but he was roaring abuse at me. My dog was whelping, got back on his feet and couldn't put his forepaw down. They stormed off still shouting at me. The scariest thing of all was what sprang to my mind was it was clearly not the first time he took his boot to something and I'm pretty sure it hasn't always been an animal. I'll never forget it, my dog is ok, I'm not.