how would you deal in this situation?

Question

my freind who practises shotokan was just boasting on how his martial art was great (yeah i know Shotokan wtf lol) so i just said it depends on the practiconer and then he started to say my sifu and my art was crap and i said to him he crssed the line, then we gt into a brawl and me studying only about 4 lessons of shuai jiao nailed him to the floor with a throw.

i was laughing for a bit and decided to walk away

for all u judo guys why does so much of ur techniques involve the use of the gi. we use limbs and bones or watever we can grab and just throw them hard in shuai jiao

are there any shuai jiao guys here and it is the fore founder of judo and jiu jitsu

thanks

Answer 1

Does your art teach you anything about honor and self-discipline? You nailed him to the floor because of some words?! If you were confident in your art and in yourself you wouldn't feel the need to prove yourself in front of ignorant friends. Now you're bragging about fighting out of the dojo in a situation that didn't require self-defense. Not only that, but you laughed at your friend. Not impressed!

Answer 2

I don't study Shuai Jiao...but I am wondering why your friend felt like he was justified in not only insulting you and your Sifu, but the art you study as a whole.

It sounds to me like he hasn't really been learning from his sensei. All instructors worth their beans should be teaching their students that you respect others...even if you do happen to think you are better than them.

My stab at the question of why do they use the gi would be, and please correct me if I'm off base, because Judo was originally designed to combat people that wore armor. One simply couldn't count on getting a good grab on just anything when your opponent was really only graspable by his clothing/armor.

Answer 3

I am not a shuai jiao practioner but what I have to say applies to any martial art. I agree 100% with the person who said that you should not have done what you did. The only time that you use your skills outside of the dojo or dojang or kwoon or whatever you call the place where you study, the only time that you use your skills on the streets is when there is no alternative whatsoever,anything else shows no respect for your art, whatever it is, no respect for your school, no respect for your teacher, no respect for the human being you use it on, and no respect for yourself.
Also, the essence of martial arts is to avoid conflict, fights, and confrontations. I believe that all true martial arts schools teach using your head to forsee potential problems and to avoid them.
Anything else is not the true martial arts.

Answer 4

I am always happy to use a situation such as this as an opportunity to cross train with other styles. If you took it seriously and had an actual fight then you handeled it poorly.... If you mean that you accepted his challange to your style and had a sparring match then good on you, there should be more people out there willing to test their skills against other styles, there is no point being only good against the style that you train.

Enjoy your training and you are right to stand up for your style, just don't do it in an aggressive way, another martial arts practioner should respect and accept the opportunity to test their skills unless they are full of crap and in which case you have proven your point with no further action required.

Answer 5

Many of the throws utilize the gi but if they are wearing for example a t-shirt you just wouldn't use the throw and would just throw using a limb, heel-hook, sweep ect.

Most people however simply don't learn how to do that because they are more concerned with using Judo as a sport than as a fighting style.

Answer 6

Id have to say that you handled it very well man, I mean for one martial artist to flat out diss another persons martial art is just complete disrespect. I dont even study true martial arts, Im an MMA guy myself, but even I would know not to ever diss someone elses art. Doesnt matter if I knew I could easily pound the person, its just disrespect. Odds are he will brag about how he stood up for his art and dissed on yours, and the people he trains with will probably exclude him of the remainding classes for his sign of disrespect.

The main thing everyone learns in martial arts is respect, doesnt matter which one it is you are learning, you will be taught to respect people, especially those of different arts. I understand if he were to question your art over his, thats just curiousness, but to say that your art was crap, was way too wrong, and you did a good thing. Sure theres no love lost though, it was just a stupid move of cockyness on your friends part, I wouldnt think way too much into it. You proved your point to him and Im sure that he wouldnt make that mistake again.

Answer 7

Dude, you handled that poorly. Havn't you learnt anything from Bruce Lee movies? When someone insults you, your syle or especially your master, you KILL THEM. It's entirely justified.

No really, you probably could have handled that better. Still, you proved you were not ineffective. And that's certainly something.

But I want you to consider this: What is more important? Your friendship and just being kind and forgiving to people in their moments of being an ***, or proving you are better and possibly hurting a friend in the process?

If being right is more important to you than your friend, then you made the right choice.

Answer 8

Also not impressed. Had you simply ignored him and left it at that that would have made you the bigger person,worthy of respect and you would have honored your teacher and art. By giving into his taunts it only proves that you are no better then he is. Also insulting his art was exactly what he did to you Shotokan is just as respectable as any other art. Martial arts arn't all about who can beat who. You have A LOT to learn my friend.

Answer 9

Shuai Jiao is said to be the oldest Chinese MA. It is said that all others come from it.

Answer 10

wow- I hope your skills are better than your typing clarity.