Cruentus
Grandmaster
In the combative Martial Art world you get every walk on the planet, like any martial art, but you often get guys who walk around and try to act military, when they're not, and who throw their egos around. If I partner with these people, and they aren't being "good partners," I just make sure the technique I am doing is working, and I make sure that they "feel" that it does.
I've seen it at seminars and such before, the ego problems. Kicking a student out after he displayed uncontrolled violence like that during a test was the right thing to do.
I have seen occasions during an instructional demo where the Uke who was just picked out from the crowd would get egotistical and try to take the instructors head off (or something like that). When this occurs, there is only one answer: bring him down hard!
Often when I am teaching my class, or teaching a seminar, I have people who "nicely" try to challange what I am doing. They aren't trying to take my head off, but they want to try to somehow prove that they have the answer or counter to what I am teaching. I get this alot because I am fairly young for an instructor; and many older martial artists have a hard time curbing their ego's when they are around me to learn something, even though I would never behave in that manner around them if they were teaching. I usually welcome this, though, so I can show them their faults, or show them what I would do if they tried that counter attack. If they do something that I haven't seen, then I learned something new. This usually eliminates any doubt to the students. If they are getting annoying and just won't let it go, even when they're getting smoked, then I try to throw some humor into the situation.
Example:
I was teaching at this seminar, and the environment was very relaxed. There were other instructors there, so I had only a small group. I had this one guy who kept inturupting me to tell me how his system of Filipino Martial Arts would handle the situation, while I was attempting to teach the group. This was annoying at best, and disrespectful to the students who paid good money to learn (and not from him). So he went into his rendition of how to do a particular disarm (we had sticks), one that I had just finished explaining about how the technique wouldn't work against a trained stick fighter. So, I told him to try it on me. He did, and he ended up with his own stick slamming against his collar bone, and then tied up while I posed a strike to his knee and head with my eskrima stick. He was very flustered to say the least. So, I used him as a Uke for the rest of the session. He would often try to get "one more hit" in while I was talking and demoing, or he'd try to sneak some other technique in by suprise. One time I just tied him up with both mine and his stick; letting go of my stick to talk to the group, leaving him with both stikes in hand, and his hands ties up (hard to explain online, but it was humorus). Another time, he tryed to get in an extra strike while I was talking, so I blocked, grabbed his stick, and said, "Hey, can I see that for a minute?" He let go, and I said "Ha, see now you are disarmed! Your also grounded....I'll give you your stick back when you can behave!" The group, including my new Uke, all got a laugh. It lightened things up a bit, but at the same time the students had no doubts about the effectiveness of what they were learning, and the "Uke" was humbled a bit.
O.K....enough of my stupid stories! Anyone else?
