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Hayabusarider
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The first week that I joined Muay Thai class ( about 6 months ago ) I signed up on the same night a local county sheriff did.
We were in the warm up area discussing the class, and our experience. I explained to him that I had no previous training. He explained to me that he had previously had some experience with Muay Thai, grappling, boxing, and other law enforcement training. About 15 years total.
Well in the first week of our training together ( I noticed that he always hit me harder than any other student would ), we were in a sparring match that we call " tag team " It's when you split the gym in half, and you have teams, and tag in a new partner every so often.The sheriff and I were on the mat, when he grabbed me by the head, threw a knee at my belly. At that point our instructor yelled " Whoa no knees ! " The sheriff then proceeded to knee me in the groin, and rip my head gear off.
I was pissed off and frustrated with this. I asked people that I knew with M.A. experience what they would do in this situation. They all mutually said that what I needed to do was " Check " the sheriff, without making it to obvious.
I did not want to start a confrontation in my new home or with my new training partner, but I knew that something had to be done other that talking to him or my instructor.
A while later ( with some additional sparring under my belt ) . The sheriff and I were sparring together. I hit him with an upper cut, left hook, then right cross. All at about 85% power. He than said something to the extent of " Easy, you keep hitting me in the face, and I'm walking right into those "
That was the last of our confrontations with the hard hitting of each other. He is now one of my favorite training partners.
The other night, my wife was in there, and the sheriff told her something to the extent of " Your husband can take this stuff seriously. He might need to learn to relax ".
She knows why I checked him, so does my instructor, and the students in my class. I have never hit anyone else in class that hard, nor have I ever been hit that hard by another student ( includeing the sheriff ).
Was that the right thing to do after being the least experienced student in class, being somewhat abused by a more experienced student ? It has not happened since, and I hope that we are done with it now.
Either way, I took his comments, and his lack of hard hitting as a compliment
We were in the warm up area discussing the class, and our experience. I explained to him that I had no previous training. He explained to me that he had previously had some experience with Muay Thai, grappling, boxing, and other law enforcement training. About 15 years total.
Well in the first week of our training together ( I noticed that he always hit me harder than any other student would ), we were in a sparring match that we call " tag team " It's when you split the gym in half, and you have teams, and tag in a new partner every so often.The sheriff and I were on the mat, when he grabbed me by the head, threw a knee at my belly. At that point our instructor yelled " Whoa no knees ! " The sheriff then proceeded to knee me in the groin, and rip my head gear off.
I was pissed off and frustrated with this. I asked people that I knew with M.A. experience what they would do in this situation. They all mutually said that what I needed to do was " Check " the sheriff, without making it to obvious.
I did not want to start a confrontation in my new home or with my new training partner, but I knew that something had to be done other that talking to him or my instructor.
A while later ( with some additional sparring under my belt ) . The sheriff and I were sparring together. I hit him with an upper cut, left hook, then right cross. All at about 85% power. He than said something to the extent of " Easy, you keep hitting me in the face, and I'm walking right into those "
That was the last of our confrontations with the hard hitting of each other. He is now one of my favorite training partners.
The other night, my wife was in there, and the sheriff told her something to the extent of " Your husband can take this stuff seriously. He might need to learn to relax ".
She knows why I checked him, so does my instructor, and the students in my class. I have never hit anyone else in class that hard, nor have I ever been hit that hard by another student ( includeing the sheriff ).
Was that the right thing to do after being the least experienced student in class, being somewhat abused by a more experienced student ? It has not happened since, and I hope that we are done with it now.
Either way, I took his comments, and his lack of hard hitting as a compliment
