I didn’t mean to. He likes to draw the adult observers into the lesson, like he did one of the moms. I think he thinks they might get interested and sign up. She couldn’t break out of his headlock.
He asked me if I thought I could break a headlock, and I said I could. I threw him, broke his headlock, put him in a headlock, and then held him in spite of his best efforts for a minute or two until I let him go.
He was embarrassed and angry, but he could have tapped. I didn’t do anything else, I just held the lock. I was just giving him a chance to figure it out. Normally in jujitsu class, if you don’t tap and keep struggling it’s a sign that you want to continue trying. I’d have let him up at once if he’d tapped out, or otherwise asked.
Oh, well. He literally asked me for it.
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He'll live.
I once did something similar, but not because I was so skillful. In college, in a non-collegiate karate dojo, our sensei was demonstrating a throw, using me as his dummy. He made his move, and in my clumsiness, I stepped on his foot, which put me off balance, but not the way he intended. Unbalanced, I hung onto him (as is typical, we started with each of us gripping the other's gi)--trying to regain my balance, not to counter his throw--continued to fall, and with his foot pinned, I threw him.
He was embarrassed, but all I'd done--accidentally--was demonstrate the danger of amateurs relative to professionals. Amateurs are too random.
Eric Hines
The odds of someone in the audience being a jujitsu expert are small. But small doesn't mean nonexistent.
George Silver makes a similar point about amateur fighters.
I guess you never know who might walk in your door. It’s a kind of reversal of Havamal 1.
He'll re-gruntle and be the wiser for it. Be fun to visit his dojo next year ...
If he were really angry, he is losing an opportunity- so many useful lessons, both for him and the audience.
One can learn the most from someone who is more skilled.
It is good to learn that there is always a faster gun, no matter who you are.
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