showing dangeous martial arts moves to friends

[hiddendragon98]

My friends sometimes ask me to show them martial arts moves and sometimes i do like not showing off just teaching them how to do a move but when i do i feel like i am giving to much of what i know away for instance if they stop being my friend and we get in a dispute and they know a lot of my moves or they will be playing around and use the dangerous moves i have taught them irresponsibly

[JusticeZero]

It's not like they're going to drill it or practice it, or any of the rest of the delivery system behind it. They may recognize the word, but without the rest of the book behind it it does them no good.

[MasterPain]

Just show them a jab. Or a stance. Try to get them to throw 100 decent lead punches. They'll likely be bored out of their skull. If they actually try, invite them to class.

I once had some idiot tell me he wanted to show me a move he had learned from someone. I said okay, so he told me to throw a punch at him. He sidestepped and threw a ridgehand, full power, into my throat. I told him, in a very assertive manner, to never do that to anyone ever again.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that if your friends are idiots, and if you're afraid they will someday try to hurt you they likely are, then you should not show them anything they can't figure out by watching Never Back Down.

[MasterPain]

I just realized that may have come off as insulting. It wasn't meant to be. Seriously, if you feel someone may try to fight you later, they are not someone you should teach. They are also probably not someone who you should be hanging out with. You mentioned being near black belt. being high rank makes you a representative of your art, and you should be careful of the type of person you train. They reflect upon you, your school, and your art. Even if you are young, that rank gives you a responsibility to hold up the reputation and integrity of your school. The rank is a symbol of your instructor's faith in you.

Locally, a man was shot in self defense. It reflects very poorly on the instructor who chose to teach him, and the martial arts community as a whole, as he regularly committed assault and battery and was ultimately killed in doing so.

[hiddendragon98]

thank you for your advice on this and the other subject i posted about it has been very helpful

[sensei8]

My most closest friends?...sure, why not. After all, my most closest friends are my students.

[Wastelander]

You seem to need better friends--I don't mind teaching my friends a thing or two because they are either martial artists already, good enough friends that I don't have to worry about it, or people who will forget it in five minutes anyway.

[Dobbersky]

No I don't, because they will have this belief that they kn ow something invincible and when it doesn't work for them if they ever needed to use something guess what they'll say "Oh Karate/Jujitsu/Kempo/etc doesn't work because of A, B & C" Not because they themselves couldn't spend the time learning the stuff properly etc like we all did.

I tend to say something like "Waaaaaah Waaaaaah Waaaaah" if someone says show me a move etc or do a dance move etc as its not worth the hassle

OSU

[evergrey]

I usually tell them if they want to be able to fight in order to defend themselves, it will likely take years for them to learn to do it properly (I'm probably not a good enough fighter yet, to defend myself against a truly determined assailant, unless maybe they were small and weak in ADDITION to being untrained) and that showing them something offensive (as opposed an a defensive escape that MIGHT come in handy some day) would be more likely to get them hurt than anything.

There are no true magical shortcut montages in the martial arts, as a high ranking student should know. Just time, practice, sweat, sweat, maybe some blood and tears, and more sweat.

And if you think your friends are going to honestly attack you to harm you later on... get better friends. Seriously. If you are honestly concerned that they will willfully try to harm you... maybe they are not your friends?

OSU

[Ueshirokarate]

I don't think any of my friends outside of the dojo would ask or care. Like your posts on this Masterpain and agree 100%. Don't think you were insulting at all.