Weirdest moments in training?

[hpr]

Two months ago I had a midget (sorry, vertically challenged person) as a sparring partner in BJJ, who took it very seriously. He was really into it went all out, which was.. very easily countered. I tried not to be ass about it, but what the hell do you do when you're over 60cm taller and weigh around 50 kilos more?

Now you go.

[Bustardo]

I don't know. That would be extremely odd. Some girls have recently joined our class and I'm a LOT bigger than them. When I've had to roll with them they get mad because my teacher tells me to use 1 or no hands and to start from my back. They get mad, but I have about 12 inches and 100 pounds on them. Oh well.

As a side note at a local MMA thing there was a midget/close-to-midget fighting in the lightest weight category. He actually won via ankle lock, I shit you not.

[Aleem]

Hahahah. Excellent story. Must rep you at some point.

Mine isn't so much weird as embarassing. I'd been at my MT club for about 3 weeks. A few sparring sessions later I thought the world of myself. In comes a fairly well built guy, not looking too co-ordinated. We spar, I kind of dominate - he's shy, and looking extremely new to martial arts. I keep telling him what he's doing wrong, how he should kick, and which combinations are good ones. Anyway, he gratiously accepts all the criticism.

Next sparring session, he comes in, and we spar, he demolishes me. I didn't walk properly for 3 weeks because of the way he worked my left thigh and my head. Turns out he's been doing MMA for a few years, and has fought. Meh, it was embarassing enough getting clocked on the face constantly, but even worse considering this was the shy, quiet, unco-ordinated guy I had been coaching only the week before.

[hpr]

Next sparring session, he comes in, and we spar, he demolishes me. I didn't walk properly for 3 weeks because of the way he worked my left thigh and my head. Turns out he's been doing MMA for a few years, and has fought. Meh, it was embarassing enough getting clocked on the face constantly, but even worse considering this was the shy, quiet, unco-ordinated guy I had been coaching only the week before.

If he did that to purposefully humiliate you then he's a dick. If for the laughs, well, I bet it was funny to the guys who were on to it.

[Virus]

This guy turned up to training he had writing all over his arms in texter that said stuff like "Moses" and pictures of crucifixes and shit.

Might be a good idea to keep him away from sharp objects.

[bobyclumsyninja]

Drilling in the park near my place, I had a spanish speaking gent come up and try to bareknuckle box me. I had 30 lbs, and 10" of reach on him, and he might have been drunk.

It took all my patience, and about four minutes to explain he needed pads/gloves etc, or I was going to treat it like an attack. Jamaica Plain, ma is about %60 spanish speaking, that's the most trouble I ever had in communicating.

Not that wierd, but most people don't come up and challenge someone mid-heavy workout to fight...not me at least...I mostly have kids come up and watch.

No gong sau in Mozart park that day.

[Fearless Ukemi]

I was rolling with a girl and she cut a loud fart.

[indy007]

Last tuesday rolling no-gi, I passed my partners guard, but he recovered half-guard fairly quick and put me in a lockdown. Next, he goes for an arm triangle from the bottom. So I'm stuck there, not really getting choked, and still stuck in that lockdown.

Then I felt the most alien sensation I've ever felt training. There was a really slight pressure on my asshole. My foots trapped so I can't squirm forward. My head is trapped so I can't look backwards to see what the hell it was. All I can hear is the no-gi instructor talking behind me telling me to free my leg... but he sounds like he's a few feet away. Did I just blow an o-ring or something? wtf?

I manage to squirm out of the arm triangle, and look over my shoulder...

There's 3 or 4 guys watching, standing next to the no-gi instructor.

The instructor had a pool cue in his hand.

Everybody was laughing.

That's when it occured to me I'd just been on the receiving end of an oil-check.

I looked at him with that "What the fucking hell man?!" look on my face.

He smiled, "Motivation!"

At least he didn't use his finger.

[money]

Was rolling with one of the younger guys (17ish) and was fighting for a RNC when he started giggling. My beard was tickling the back of his neck.

I did not make eye contact.

[melk]

We were doing partner assisted flexibility/stretching stuff. That night the too senior students/asst instructors were me an this girl, which essentially meant we were working together. So we were doing this arm twist thing where you roll your shoulder forward and palm up. Your partner is supposed to twist your arm more, and generally this requires holding the arm against your body for leverage. Well she started twisting my arm and the next thing I know, I have a handful of breast. I don't say anything and move on. She does the other side and same thing. By the end of class I don't know if she is lonely or clumsy.

[ignatzami]

Back in WC class we were practicing this entry, knee up (shin block?), tan sau, come in on a 45 degree angle. After class we were doing some light sparring and I decided to try it, so I came in and my right knee came up as my opponent cross stomped my left knee. I felt this funky pop in my left knee and collapsed. No pain, but my leg was totally numb for a few seconds. Never did figure out what I did but it was just creepy.

[ignatzami]

Few weeks ago in BJJ I was rolling with a guy, much more technical then me. I had about 75-100lbs on the guy and was a few inches taller so I wasn't doing too bad but I was more or less 100% defensive.

Were rolling for a good five minutes till my instructor pulls us apart cause theres blood going everywhere!

My gi top on my left side is covered in blood as is my left sleeve and the mat is spotted in our area. Some how a cut had opened up over the kids right eyebrow and he was bleeding like crazy. No idea how he didn't notice! (I was bottom N/S so I couldn't see his face) we stopped and got the mats clean but I still havnt gotten all the blood out of my Gi. Irksome

[DdlR]

Lots of weird moments from my pro-wrestling days (late '80s).

Once one of our referees, a little Chinese guy, was helping one of the heavyweights do some training. The ref (who had basically no wrestling experience and was not an athlete) goes down into the backslam position, legs spread and bent fully forward at the waist (like you're playing leap-frog). This is the cue for the other guy to go into a sunset flip, diving headfirst over your back, catching your hips on the way down and pulling you over backwards into a rolling pin fall.

Unfortunately the heavyweight was a real giant, a Tongan guy who must have been close to 300 lbs, none of it built for jumping. He went for it anyway, which was the weird moment; seeing this huge Tongan hovering (briefly) in the air over this tiny, hunched over referee. Then came the crunch, which was not weird, just very scary ...

[CoffeeFan]

I was rolling with a girl and she cut a loud fart.

Girl + Bean Burrito + BJJ = Priceless moment

[Cuchulain]

I blacked out for a second after I kneed myself in face doing a kip-up.