author: Sensei Gregory C. Lewis
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1. It is CLEAR that the person this black belt was facing did NOT have all of his mental faculties. The "threat" presented did not match the response delivered.
2. The instructor invited this person on to the floor to get pounded out by one of his senior students. This is inexcusable.
3. The black belt obviously has little to no full-contact experience. In addition, he obviously has no knowledge of how the law defines "self-defense" and "assault".
From a technical perspective, the black belt's technique was sloppy, weak, and slow. He took way too long to stop and drop his opponent: he hit him first (kicked him, WEAKLY, in the groin), and then toyed with him until he got tired; then when he saw an opportunity, he knocked him down and stomped him into unconciousness.
Again, inexcusable.
As I was taught, Karate is designed to make the weak people strong, and the strong people humble. This video is a demonstration of weakness and egotistical arrogance of both instructor and student. They are both worthy of what they dished out upon this man.
And don't get me started on the underlying racist theme of this whole incident, namely a white man instructing a black man to attack another black man for his amusement. The United States has a terrible history of this sort of thing, from bare-knuckle boxing on plantations (i.e. - human cockfighting)during slavery, to the picnic (originally called "pic-NIG"; lynching as a 'family-friendly' event).
One would think that those who train in war arts (especially arts that come to the U.S. from countries the U.S. has conquored, colonized, and exploited), such as these "people", would know this, understand this, and act accordingly. Apparently, NOT.
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