the_Dark Knight
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And yeah I kept it legal.
ehh whatever. I don't know if the beat down will do anything, some people are just like that and are going to continue to be that way not matter what.
Thats why you need to explain things after the beatdown.
We (meaning the brown belts) fixed a WB who was suffering from a bloated ego ( didn't realized we were going easy on him: trying new stuff, giving him a chance to build confidence, ect). He made the mistake of popping off to our Coach about how the rest of us weren't able to throw him much. Coach gave us permission to remind him why our belts were brown and his white.
So, next day at practice: he fell hard, he tapped often, and he was held in tight uncomfortable pins longer and more frequently than before. One of the browns simply told him the gloves came off at the end of practice. He didn't show up the next couple days, but he did return later a much more humble guy and became a valued member of our team.
A year or so later, he brought up "that day" and thanked us for straightening him out.
that shit wouldn't fly at any place I train
At the place I train at, my instuctor would laugh at me and make fun of me. I would proceed to tell him how cool it is and he would continue to make fun of me. At which point, I would attack him from behind. Then he would kick my ass, laughing at me the whole time. In the end, everyone is happy.
We just don't take ourselves that seriously. We are all there to have fun. Jokes, pranks and insults are a daily occurence. Everyone has a good time, everyone learns some great jiu-jitsu and everyone is happy.
are you guys all dumb?
why make things more complicated?
tell him to stop acting like a prick. end of.
The problem is that if you want to dick around on your own time, whatever. If you're interrupting the instructor and stopping other people from learning, you're out of line.
If I was alone in doing it then yeah but that is the culture of my gym. We have a good time. Coach will make jokes while teaching, he will banter back and forth with various people at different times. Hell, even Marcus Soares gets into the spirit of things abit when he comes here. He is still a serious old school brazilian but he will make the odd comment or be part of a joke.
The bottom line is that every school is different. I personally couldn't handle a serious, traditional school. That is one of the reasons I didn't like traditional martial arts. I want to learn and have fun. I don't want to bow and sit quietly along the wall in seiza while the master speaks. You can have fun and respect the coach and your peers. As long as you can do both, have at 'er.
Agreed. An odd joke here and there is fine, we're all there to have fun, on some level. But some kid doing a gator walk when that's completely unrelated to what everyone's doing, and it's distracting from what's going on? What would you imagine would happen at your school then?
So the instructor lines us up for man in the middle calls him he crawls out to the middle, he comes back crawling, making a scene.