And see, it worked! Now you guys are goin' out!
Sorry, I was trying to think of the most sexist thing I could come up with. How'd I do?
:rofl: I'm only kidding!
On a serious note, I had something like that happend to me when I was 15 years old....
It was a grappling class that was integrated into the TKD and kickboxing program at the school I was affiliated with. I was partnered up with a girl that was over twice my age (about 32), but I still outweighed her (even if it was only by about 20 lbs.), outranked her, and out-strengthed her. Anyways, she really came after me. She would tie up with me and try to toss me around, concentrating her strength up top. I was going as easy as I could. Keep in mind, I also had middle school and high school wrestling experience. I had held her off, and let her attempt to try to push me around from up-top. About 30 seconds into it I decided to take her down, because she wasn't getting anywhere with me up top. When she came foward to tie up again, I shot at her lead leg, spun, and I was behind her in what wrestlers call a "high-crotch" position (if you can picture this, this is where I am on one knee behind her with my shoulders in line with the back of her thigh, my head to the right of her hips, and my right arm around her right leg, and my left arm coming from between the legs, and lying across the inside left thigh).
Now, as pornographic as that all sounds (
), the attempt was to drive my shoulder foward into her thigh/hip, while stopping the knees, so she would be forced to fall foward. From there, you can work whatever you want (armbars, ankle locks, chokes, etc.) This is all supposed to happend within a split second. What instead heppends is she panics, and her upper-body attempts to follow me, while her legs stayed immobile. needless to say, her lead leg then slipped, and next thing I knew she was on the floor crying before I could even finish the move.
The difference was that in this case, she had to go be rushed to emergancy to have the ligaments in her knee repaired, and her tendon re-attatched.
I felt SOOOOOOOO bad! The truth is, I love fighting, but I hate hurting people, especially women. That was why I always hated partnering with women for sparring, and such. I was very upset. I was able to talk to her afterwards, though, and she assured me that it wasn't my fault. She understood that in any martial discipline there is a risk of injury. This risk is elavated if you choose to participate in sparring, or submission grappling. Luckily, she said, injuries heal. The point is, we can waste our time blaming the other person, or ourselves even for an ACCIDENT, or we can try to learn something from the experience. If we choose to learn, then we choose to grow. And if we grow, then we have accomplished why we took the martial discipline in the first place. Well, I think she was right.
And where ever she is today, that is the attitude of a strong and capeable woman, one who knows how to take control of her life, perservere, and not be a victim no matter what happends. I think that her story represents a good example to follow for everyone.
:asian:
P.S. I was 15 when that happend, and it just hit me that was 10 years ago! I think I am going to drink myself silly, and cry at the same time. :drink2tha :wah: I'm old as s**t
