So, last night I am in BJJ class, and I am off to the side with Glover. As the clas is training techniques, he and I are off in the back and I am running him through some drills. Holding pads, working on boxing, counters to take downs and some leg checks and counters. Glvoer is fighting December 10th in NJ, so I need to get him ready.
I step off the mat during a break to grab some water and as I walk back, some guy stops me. He was in the chairs off the mat, watcing class. This guy is all of about 5'7", maybe 5'8" and about 175. He says he saw me working on stuff and wanted to know if we tain kicks as counters to a kick. So, wanted to know if we will kick righ away after a guy kicks us. I said, well, this is a BJJ class. I am just working with that guy over there to get him ready for an MMA fight he has in a few weks.
This guy tell me that he knows it is a BJJ class, ut he wants to know how we train our strike counters, because he is a Black Belt in TKD (
). I said well, when we train for MMA or striking, we do have different countes we work on, but mostly we counter based on openings and also work on strengths of each person.
So then he said, well, I know how to fight and I have good TKD training, and if you and I went to that spot on the mat over there, and we used the whole space (He points to a square area on the mat, about 12' x 12') I could look into your eyes and before you kicked me I would know and I would kick you one or two times so fast and probably knock you out.
Soooooo, now I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. I'm trying to get back ontot he mat to train Glvoer....and I am also trying to be nice so as to not run off a potential new student for my BJJ instructor. So, I tried to strike a balance and also not let my anger get the best of me. But I also realized that guys like hiim need to be put spoken to a certain way or else they will never give class a chance.
So, I grinned at this little guy and said, well, if you and I went to the mat and ou tried that TKD stuff, I'd but you on your back so fast that you wouldn't even know what happened. "Oh, well I trained with a real master at TKD and we are not like most TKD schools becausse we fight hard". Well, I said, then I think you'd really like BJJ class. We all get along well and work with each other and you can add to your TKD arsenal and then you will be a complete fighter. (I'm trying to back off a bit and be nice)
He says "yeah, I know how to fight and I can out kick almost anyone and I don't need to learn anything standing up, but I thougth the ground work may help me. So I said great, hope to see you in class. But, nooooooo, he just can't shut the fuck up. He proceeds to tell me how tough he is and how he knows so much about striking and how we are really not doing things in the best way becaues we aren't kick countering enough, blah blah blah.
Fuck it....so I say, "are you serious?" Do you really think your TKD sparing and point tournaments are something that wil be useful for you against someone who knows what they are doing?" Look, I'm a former pro kickboxer and have 18 years of striking experience. You lift your leg to kick me and I will knock you out in about 3 seconds because that TKD stuff that you have spent a few years doing will get you into a lot of trouble. And, when I get you to the ground, you will have nothing for me at all, so you might want to consider trying this stuff out.....and if you really think you have skill, come work out with us in MMA and show us what you got.
Then I just walked away laughing. I so badly wanted to drag his ass onto the mat and give him his 12'x12' space so I could work him over........WTF is wrong with these retards?