Originally posted by Shinzu
i think its more for the fact that the student knows what he/she is getting themselves into.
not that they whine after they get hurt. MA is kind of a practice at your own risk anyway. hell you could hurt yourself by just pulling a muscle!
Exactly. But if you go into a dojo, that claims open sparring, and
tell you that it's x type sparring. Say ITF style, following ITF rules.
You know these rules, they claim to know too, and you're assured
that everyone there knows the rules, it's a strict session, yada
yada yada. Now you're sparring one of HIS students, or even
him, and someone slides down like sliding into base, and do a
side kick low onto your abdomen picking your whole body up into
the air. The wind gets knocked out of you, you find out later
that your (pick one: Spleen, bladder, pelvis) is ruptured/broke/
damaged in some way.
Me personally ... I would have felt
conned! As I feel a sharp pain everytime I breathe, I would
just get more and more ticked. What recourse do you have?
You can ignore it, or sue. What else is there? If you do NOT
take any action, then the same thing could happen to a more
fragile person, or someone like you. None of these people
really knew what they were getting into, don't you think?
I'm with the opinion that there's boat loads of frivolous lawsuits
going on, and because of those, we've all lost out on tons of
things. I consider these to be situations like "man helps woman
getting raped, and injuries the rapist. The rapist sues the rescuer
and even worse, wins. Or someone goes into a grocery store,
slips on a strawberry, sues the grocery, and wins millions, when
they're no worse for the wear.
But in cases of pure neglect, or being conned and ending up
being in massive pain ... these people should pay, somehow,
someway. What else can you do but sue?
