Yesterday something unusual happened to me. Due to a big up and coming gi competition in Reading I have been training extra hard and trying to get into my gi on days I would normally be playing PS2 or lounging on facebook. So me and my good friend and training partner Brian have been getting together on a Sunday and sharing the mat space with the RGDA MMA students and a rather bizarre Pencak Silat Martial arts group. Now this Silat instructor is a bit of a dickhead and is one of those close minded instructors who you can always see putting down bjj and mma to his students etc... With RGDA UK's head instructor Eddie Kone currently teaching a seminar in Romania the classes have been left to the senior and willing students to run and look out for everyone...
Today this Silat instructor came up to me whilst his class and our class were training and stepped right into my personal space and more or less insisted that I rolled with him! At the time I was standing next to Brian and we were both a little taken back by this... I looked at him and asked him why he wanted to roll with me and if he had ever done any floor work, to which he replied he just wanted to roll and he done some a while back... Now I really did not want to roll with this guy for a few reasons and I was thinking why has this guy come up to me in front of everyone?, Why did this guy ask me when HIS students were there? And where would this end up?! This guy obviously thought he was better than me and wanted to smash me in front of his students so instantly I said ok... Now never being in this position before I decided that this knob was taking the piss as he had stepped out of his training environment stepped into mine and not so blatently challenged me! This is where it gets complicated, Do I smash him for taking the piss and being so disrespectful or do I play around and go easy with him? If I had played around with him he is the sort of guy who would of not realised and thought bjj was shit so I decided to give it to this f***er in a humane way... We began rolling and straight away everyone started watching and instantly I put this guy in a rock solid armbar but soon realised this guy was not going to tap as I had this arm at breaking point so I let go because if I broke his arm I would have lost control of myself and the situation... After letting go I flipped this guy round like a rag doll got his back and sunk in a rear naked choke but then I realised the guy had gone limp so released the choke as I thought he was out (which people said he was!) and straight away he came round and started struggling so this time I sank it in tighter and he was wise enough to tap this time... I proceded to throw this guy round like the arsehole he is and tapped him 3 times and when the timer went he got up without saying anything or shaking my hand and walked off !!!!! I could of tapped this guy 15 times if I wanted to and I was more or less tap dancing on him...! I then saw this guy talking bjj down to his students but I decided not to carry the situation on as it may have got silly.... Afterwards I felt REALLY bad and I dont know why! I mean this guy disrespected me, our club, our style and even though I gave this dick a true bjj lesson in respect I FELT BAD! This guy pissed me off and I dont know why I feel so bad!
After a day of thinking im still trying to figure out if I handled the situation in the right way or decide if there was another way a more experienced Martial Artist would have handled the senario?!
Should I have been confident enough in my own ability and egoless enough to just say NO? If I work it out i'll let you know but until then train hard, train safe and keep away from Silat instructors! (Joke!)
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