Poor life choices: stumbling drunk into a dojo edition.

[evergrey]

Stupid: Being really drunk/drugged in public.

REALLY stupid: stumbling into a full contact knockdown dojo and raising a ruckus.

Darwin award candidate: one of the students remembers you getting processed in jail less than a week ago, where you tried to punch a female officer, and got your behind kicked.

Guy stumbles in, reeking of booze, slurring, wearing a white tunic and baggy green pants. Where did he even find that outfit? I guess he decided going and watching karate would be a great way to spend his time while he was trashed.

The dude got so very very lucky, because he let our head instructor gently escort him out. Head instructor is very good at deescalating bad situations, and is excellent at being extremely polite. He's good at convincing people to be good without having to threaten.

He's also a law enforcement officer, and he can seriously throw down if need be.

It's funny, seems like usually the people who have done this a really really long time and have an incredible amount of potential for destruction are usually the ones who are also smart enough to try to avoid going there if at all possible. :}

Ever have a drunk or druggie wander into your dojo? What happened?

This guy got a grin and a "thanks for stopping by! GOODBYE NOW!"

Guy had nothing he could get belligerent about, hah!

[Dobbersky]

yeah, i used to train in a Social Club, Renting the Events Room. so we got drunks a few times. I always managed to get them back out the door without any issues.

OSU

[evergrey]

OSU, it's usually useful when you are just so nice (but firm) that they can't figure out how to pick a fight with you!

I remember once being at a street faire, and suddenly somebody took my hand. I looked over and it was some really drunk guy who I had never met before. He was just standing there, smiling, all blissed out, holding my hand, lol!

I basically said "hi honey, how are you?"

*smiles* "goooood!"

"Okay, good! Hey let's turn around! I'm gonna send you that way. You have a great day now," and I steered him around and sent him back off into the crowd.

Of course, if he had done something really really inappropriate, like sexual assault, it'd be all over for him, heh. But if they aren't threatening anyone, it's better to just do some mental aikido with them and redirect them. :}

[bushido_man96]

Nice play, evergrey!

I've never had this experience, but I deal with a lot of drunks. Sometimes, there is no convincing them, and they just have to be dealt with. Its also funny how many times they wake up the next morning, and are totally different people, and don't even remember that they bounced with you the night before.

[evergrey]

Haha, yeah, alcohol can do some really bad things. I think if someone doesn't have a LOT of self control, or if they have an addictive personality, they should really just avoid the stuff.

The dojo was fully prepared to deal with him if need be. We are full of law enforcement officers, some of whom carry off duty, if it really comes down to something THAT bad. We also have a 7th dan and a 5th dan, in Kyokushin. I feel really safe here!

Though I was still ready to jump in if need be. Hyper-vigilance'll do that.