I saw this post in another section, however it got me to thinking. As an instructor/Sifu/Sensei/Etc... if someone chalanges your technique, to what extent do you go?
To clarify here is part of the post, it was specifically addressing a female instructor and a larger male student.
"I can remember on time I was teaching a self-defense technique, and this larger man told me that what I was doing wouldn't work. He said that because he was stronger than I was he could keep me from hurting him, and thus the technique wouldn't work. I asked him to demonstrate what he would do. I then kicked him in just to the side of the groin, inner thigh area, and then applied my wrist lock. He was on the ground screaming like a baby. "
More questons to ponder on this. I know of many students that "What If" or "Yeah, But" a technique, and claim that it won't work if they do this, or what if I do that. You know the situation I'm talking about.
I believe that sometimes these question are important and can be benificial for discussion, but what do you do if a student becomes a pest.
Another thing is I know of certian techniques that work very well at speed and must be, for lack of a better phrase, staged to do at a practice speed. I'm speaking of a lot of the Aikido and Jiu Jutsu type locks and manuevers. How would you deal with a student that just doesn't believe that a technique could be pulled off and want to see it work, without actually hurting them.
And Sensei Sue, I'm not disagreing with what you did, I'm just looking for advise about these situations. I tend to see this type of behavior/questioning more with our teenage students, and I wouldn't want to hurt anyone intentionally... well most of the time that is
