--- In impactmartialartsdojo@yahoogroups.com, "shazzza190"
<shazzza190@y...> wrote:
> should instrutors allow full face punches in sparing lessons and
let
> the students get away with it also should there showen favoritisom
> to students.

On the topic of conduct to start with, as the person in question was
the senior grade in the incident she is the one who should have taken
control of the situation and made the move to step the hostilities
down a notch, as it was the white belt was the one to make the
comment for more restraint. The response to this was to come in with
a heavy handed combination finishing with a knee strike to the body
that is not allowed under any circumstances. As for a full frontal
strike to the face we all try and avoid this but sometimes it
happens, I don't think it was intentionally aimed for the face as the
heat of the moment would have took any target it could take?

It is rather amusing that you should quote me on the conduct:

"Whilst training the idea is not to inflict injury but to master the
techniques you have been taught, so self-control & self-discipline
are very important. Anyone who wishes to bully or harass others
verbally or physically will be prevented from training with us"

From my view point (and that of the other watching) it was the higher
grade that initiated the excessive contact even after I told them
both to take it steady, the higher grade should have been the one to
lead by example by showing all the lower grades "self-control & self-
discipline" and on the topic of "self-control & self-discipline" did
the white bet make a big issue of the non allowed strike and the
intent behind it?

As announced in last months news letter to help decrease the
possibility of injury we have ruled as of next year no one will be
allowed to use semi contact gloves for sparing and everyone has
welcomed this ruling and have started using boxing gloves only, the
white belt in question was using a pair of 12oz boxing gloves that
offer much better protection for both parties involved during
sparing, so the severity of her strike was greatly lessened by the
better gloves. As the higher graded student did not have any padding
on her knee whose strike would be considered the more dangerous?

Also what was the injury inflicted, did she have a broken nose, a
bruised face or a bloody nose. The answer is no to all these as far
as I could see, as no one reported any injuries I assume that she had
non (and it was not mentioned in the e-mail you sent me)

Bex did offered for both you to come back into the group to sort
things through but this was totally refused.

You have to remember martial arts is a contact sport and as we do
focus on the full contact side of the art also (that's why we are
changing to boxing gloves) so from time to time people get some
bruises and other minor knocks but all of these things are to be
expected during the course of training. When you are sparring the
aim is to hit your opponent and when sparring in our club we ask that
know one hits anyone any harder than what they want to get hit back,
this usually results in a mutual respect between fighters and a level
of contact acceptable to both parties.

In the event of a good smack on the end of the nose, well you should
have blocked it. Well that what I tell myself every time someone
lands a punch on my snout (we will just have to learn the hard way).
It is not a rule that you cannot hit to the face in our club but
rather a gentlemen's agreement (for lack of a better word). For
safety we don't allow knee or elbow strikes and as a majority of us
have to go to work the following it is not such a good idea to use
such strikes!!!

Trev