SAAMAG
06-01-2010, 09:12 AM
So I created a martial arts group to train together locally. People get together and train different things for striking, perhaps some basic ground work, and then we work on application (I.E. sparring or sparring drills).
Well last night a friend of mine brings in a friend of his. And I start him off doing a couple of 3 minute rounds on the heavy bag, meanwhile everyone else is doing something too like hitting the other heavy bag, hitting focus mitts, or shadowboxing.
So far so good. Later we started doing some grappling positioning drills. Flow drills to keep moving from one position to the next to gain a more dominant position. No problem.
We then start doing application sparring, where I'm having the guys apply the round kicks they were practicing on the heavy bag earlier. So one "side" of the room can do whatever they want, and the other side can defend with whatever but their only offensive weapon is the round kick. All very light contact mind you because no one was wearing gear.
So this one guy is sweating like a pig, and says oh wait I need to rest, he lays down on his stomach and says "pray for me!" jokingly. Next thing we know his face is flat on the ground (not laying sideways but literally on his nose) and he starts to shake a bit like a seizure but not violently and only for a few seconds. Just as I said to put him on his side, he woke up all round eyed and disoriented and we tell him he was just seizing, asked him if he had epilepsy or anything of the sort. He said he was fine and was just sleeping because he was just dreaming and everything. Now I know in REM people will jerk around and stuff...and it could have been that I suppose. But I also know that low blood sugar or sodium can cause mild seizures in people who don't have epilepsy.
Either way he said he was fine, and that he'll just watch for the rest of the time and he actually was fine. A bit later he and my other friend left, and we finished the night with contact (gloves/mouthpiece/etc) sparring using just the hands (boxing, wc, muay thai hands, whatever). That was my fun time ; ) So everything ended well with no major incidents outside of the guy almost getting knocked out by my lead hook!
But seriously, I'm thinking about not letting the one guy come back to the group because I can't have people dying during a light workout nor do I want to expose my friend (who has all my gear in his garage like the mats and sparring stuff) nor myself (since I'm the group's originator and promoter) to higher levels liability exposures than what's already present.
Am I overreacting in doing so?
Well last night a friend of mine brings in a friend of his. And I start him off doing a couple of 3 minute rounds on the heavy bag, meanwhile everyone else is doing something too like hitting the other heavy bag, hitting focus mitts, or shadowboxing.
So far so good. Later we started doing some grappling positioning drills. Flow drills to keep moving from one position to the next to gain a more dominant position. No problem.
We then start doing application sparring, where I'm having the guys apply the round kicks they were practicing on the heavy bag earlier. So one "side" of the room can do whatever they want, and the other side can defend with whatever but their only offensive weapon is the round kick. All very light contact mind you because no one was wearing gear.
So this one guy is sweating like a pig, and says oh wait I need to rest, he lays down on his stomach and says "pray for me!" jokingly. Next thing we know his face is flat on the ground (not laying sideways but literally on his nose) and he starts to shake a bit like a seizure but not violently and only for a few seconds. Just as I said to put him on his side, he woke up all round eyed and disoriented and we tell him he was just seizing, asked him if he had epilepsy or anything of the sort. He said he was fine and was just sleeping because he was just dreaming and everything. Now I know in REM people will jerk around and stuff...and it could have been that I suppose. But I also know that low blood sugar or sodium can cause mild seizures in people who don't have epilepsy.
Either way he said he was fine, and that he'll just watch for the rest of the time and he actually was fine. A bit later he and my other friend left, and we finished the night with contact (gloves/mouthpiece/etc) sparring using just the hands (boxing, wc, muay thai hands, whatever). That was my fun time ; ) So everything ended well with no major incidents outside of the guy almost getting knocked out by my lead hook!
But seriously, I'm thinking about not letting the one guy come back to the group because I can't have people dying during a light workout nor do I want to expose my friend (who has all my gear in his garage like the mats and sparring stuff) nor myself (since I'm the group's originator and promoter) to higher levels liability exposures than what's already present.
Am I overreacting in doing so?