Was training with this guy while my original instructor was away from teaching. One day we decided to do some randori. Some BJK dojos do this. (at least in my part of the world.) The exercise involved the two participants sitting back to back, then when the instructor says "go" both opponents turn and wrestle on the ground untill one person taps out or is pinned and unable to escape. The funny thing is, we never learnt any groundfighting so we all ended up just using schoolboy wrestling with no form, all muscle and strength and no technique.
Now the funny part;
The instructor has a go himself and he picks this really big, heavy set guy for his opponent. They wrestle around a bit and the big guy ends up getting a submission. (I can't remember what he used.) Instructor then decides to go for it again with the same guy. They wrestle around a bit for a while, then instructor says "stop". They stop and he says "did you see that?" big guy says "no" and sensei demonstrates by placing a hand on each side of big guy's head and twisting. "I had a neck break just then". He'd lost to his own student, in front of the whole class so he had to make up some neck-break (which wouldn't work in reality anyway) to "win" and save face.
Props to the dude for trying to incorperate some aliveness into training; but standup judo style randori would have been more appropriate as no one was taught or knew any groundwork.
Addition: This guy once wrote a letter to Hatsumi and asked my sensei to translate it to Japanese. My sensei read and refused to have anything to do with it. The letter was a bitch fit about various BJK dojos in the area and his suggestion to Hatumi to kick them out of the Bujinkan. He ended up getting it translated elsewhere and sent it to Japan. When Hatsumi recieved it, he held it up in class one day at the Hombu and said "This is the sort of person we don't want in the Bujinkan."
Now the funny part;
The instructor has a go himself and he picks this really big, heavy set guy for his opponent. They wrestle around a bit and the big guy ends up getting a submission. (I can't remember what he used.) Instructor then decides to go for it again with the same guy. They wrestle around a bit for a while, then instructor says "stop". They stop and he says "did you see that?" big guy says "no" and sensei demonstrates by placing a hand on each side of big guy's head and twisting. "I had a neck break just then". He'd lost to his own student, in front of the whole class so he had to make up some neck-break (which wouldn't work in reality anyway) to "win" and save face.
Props to the dude for trying to incorperate some aliveness into training; but standup judo style randori would have been more appropriate as no one was taught or knew any groundwork.
Addition: This guy once wrote a letter to Hatsumi and asked my sensei to translate it to Japanese. My sensei read and refused to have anything to do with it. The letter was a bitch fit about various BJK dojos in the area and his suggestion to Hatumi to kick them out of the Bujinkan. He ended up getting it translated elsewhere and sent it to Japan. When Hatsumi recieved it, he held it up in class one day at the Hombu and said "This is the sort of person we don't want in the Bujinkan."
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