Don't axe kick Wanderlei Silva

**tao.jonez** · Posted On: 4/26/2011 3:17pm

I love when the big boys realize that simply being big isn't everything. And when you don't even have to pull out all the tools, it's even better.

***Tranquil Suit*** · Posted On: 4/26/2011 3:53pm

Fun. Do you get these types often?

**Dr. Sleepless** · Posted On: 4/27/2011 12:23am

Originally Posted by Omega

Kid was new the gym. He seemed like he really wanted to learn but he was into trying to prove himself to everybody during all facets of training. So finally I called him on it and he started arguing with me. I told him not to argue with me on the floor and then I asked him did he not know how to train correctly. We found out eventually that the answer was no. I finally thought he got the gist and then he went back to his old ways. At the end of practice I called him on his antics "Why do you have to be a dick to your training partners". After some interesting rhetoric he told me I didn't have any right speaking to him that way and that I shy don't I get out of his face. That doesn't give him the right to be a jerk on the floor and then he said why don't you just put on the mitts.

Was this Amir?

**Dr. Sleepless** · Posted On: 4/27/2011 12:26am

Originally Posted by Omega

Still a student
Is alive
Not acting like a dick in class.

Went down sorta like this (BTW he's about 6'1" 250lbs).
Mitts on okay get your ass in the cage.
What are the rules?
Don't bite don't eye gouge.
Okay let me find some gloves.
Don't worry you won't need them.
Fight starts
I leg kick him...his face turns white as he realizes how serious I am.
I leg kick him again.
He yells at me like a bear and swings at me...nothing
I leg kick him again.
He takes another wild swing at me this time I let him hit me. I tell him I hope he can hit harder than that or he's in trouble.
I kick him in the leg again and then the stomach.
He yells at me "Are you just going to kick me all day!?"
I throw a stiff jab and drop him.
Instead of following him down to the ground I simply shove him straight down and asked if he wanted more.
He gets up and starts swinging at me wildly at which I simply step back and drop him back with a cross and one more leg kick.
He tries to charge at me and I shuck him across the cage.
I then lay in my last set of leg kicks to the inside and outside of his left leg.
I throw a right cross and he scream "argh my face"
I asked him if he was done?
He said no.
Left hook.
I asked him if he was done now.
He said no
Right uppercut left hook.
I asked if he was done.
He said no.
Knee to the thigh, knee to the ribs, knee to his head, left jab right cross.
How about now.
Yes.

Then I proceeded to lecture him about respect and learning.

LOL

Question answered.

He wanted to do Judo with me so when I threw him down, he attempted to grapple me and I just triangled/wristlock/armbar'd him. He didn't tap until I wrenched it a little bit. What an idiot.

**DKJr** · Posted On: 4/27/2011 1:20am

Lol legkicks are a great way to teach a lesson the effect lasts quite a while.

Also the chute boxe guy I've met had been....well quite insane, but he loved it when I fought back as hard as I could and didn't quit after he went psycho hard on me. But like I said he was a psychopath.

***Omega Supreme*** · Posted On: 4/27/2011 9:44am

Originally Posted by Tranquil Suit

Fun. Do you get these types often?

I just calculated about once per year. I only had one repeat.
Last year it was a prima dona fighter who wouldn't listen to anybody unless you could beat his ass.
The year before that was the most fun I had; my entire fight team wouldn't listen to me. I've told this story before but I just lined them up against the wall and started to do full contact on every one them. Out of 6 guys the entire session lasted about 3 minutes.
The year before that I went WWE on a smart ass thug on the fight team.
The year before that was one of the fight coaches thinking that MMA was the best form of self defense.
The year before that a TKD blackbelt but he chickened out.
The year before that was the smart ass thug again.

I'm starting to get too old for this. I figured one of my guys would be stepping up by now and taking my place.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 4/27/2011 10:57am

The Karate dojo where I train (old-man stuff...it doesn't work), there are the occasional fightshirt-clad dojo-stormers who come in for their "free class" looking to damage/humiliate/whatever somebody. Full of knowledge about what constitutes krotty, they protest vehemently when I answer their thinly-veiled challenges with an o-soto-gari, kata-guruma, kubi-nage-into-scarf-hold or some such.

"Ow! Hey! What the ****? Krotty doesn't have any of that!"

"Well", I respond, "I guess you know better than me".

The place is obviously much too easy for them...they never come back.

**Chili Pepper** · Posted On: 4/27/2011 11:02am

Originally Posted by Omega

Last year it was a prima dona fighter who wouldn't listen to anybody unless you could beat his ass.

I always find that attitude hilarious. Cus d'Amato was in his what, 60s? 70's? when he met Mike Tyson.

I, for one, have learned a great deal from sneaky old men, far past their prime.

**Vince Tortelli** · Posted On: 4/27/2011 7:02pm

Originally Posted by Omega

The year before that was one of the fight coaches thinking that MMA was the best form of self defense.

How did you prove your point on this one? Keep hitting him until he took off running?

**jdempsey** · Posted On: 4/27/2011 7:03pm

I have trouble with how to treat this situation, as a boxing coach in a town full of cocky troublemakers there comes a point where nearly everyone I train starts thinking they're better than me because they can out point me in a friendly controlled contact spar. The ones with big enough balls to say something have been put in their place, but sometimes I've lost talented students because I'm too nice.(Its hard with my fighting style as I win fights through pressure and putting on the hurt.) It seems they only respect you if you kick their arse so as a result guys with no idea and a gung-ho attitude are building a rep.