Schadenfreude
Lifer
I'm in a branch dojo that has about 20 clubs under the HQ dojo. And there's this kid in another club that's pissing me off - and we have a little history, so let me elaborate:
I've promoted on a slower rate than most anyone else in the dojo (2~3x), so when I transferred over to this club from my last one, the aforementioned kid (let's call him "F", because I don't remember his name) wasn't even in there - now he's surpassed my level, which I have no problem with.
And our HQ hosts a couple of large-scale tournaments and I've seen his face and competed against him a few times and I know that he's a cocky SOB.
But last year, in our annual inner-school tournament, my friend Josh went up against "F" - and won. Now he started bawling and screaming that the judges' decision was BS, and throws around a chair for good measure. Now, since this was an inner-school tournament, every instructor knew each other, and "F"'s instructor had to pull him to a corner and talk to him in front of everyone and even the head master - BIG loss of face.
Fast forward to last month - I was up for promotion, and one of the requirements was that we go and face against upper level black belts in sparring - I pride myself as being competant, so I don't get too worried - and I get to go up with this stupid motherfvcker - oh joy. When the round begins, even though my instructor, who was the one leading the promotion, told us specifically to go "light to no cantact", he goes hard - I'm slightly annoyed, but I'm tired (as opposed to him, who only had to spar), so I don't care - I go through the motion and wait until the round ends. The round ends, so I put my guard down - but that idiot continues on while everyone is standing still! He gets pulled off to the side and gets reprimended for his conduct while I have to go on with promotion.
Later I find out that he walked over to the head master and tried to convince him that it was MY fault (this is what pisses me off) even though the head master was watching the promotion himself. After the promotion, that fvcker walks over to me and tries to make smalltalk. I'm tired and since this is just a promotion, I don't want to make a scene and make my instructor lose face, so I make a little small talk and politely ignore him.
Now, in three weeks, there's an inner school tournament coming up, and I'm itching to kick his little skinny ass - he wants full contact? Fine - my original school was full-contact based and I have no problems with that . . . but as much as I want to break every single piece of bone in his pitiful little body, I know that as an instructor to my kids, I really shouldn't do that in addition to dirtying my instrutor's name . . . what should I do?
I've promoted on a slower rate than most anyone else in the dojo (2~3x), so when I transferred over to this club from my last one, the aforementioned kid (let's call him "F", because I don't remember his name) wasn't even in there - now he's surpassed my level, which I have no problem with.
And our HQ hosts a couple of large-scale tournaments and I've seen his face and competed against him a few times and I know that he's a cocky SOB.
But last year, in our annual inner-school tournament, my friend Josh went up against "F" - and won. Now he started bawling and screaming that the judges' decision was BS, and throws around a chair for good measure. Now, since this was an inner-school tournament, every instructor knew each other, and "F"'s instructor had to pull him to a corner and talk to him in front of everyone and even the head master - BIG loss of face.
Fast forward to last month - I was up for promotion, and one of the requirements was that we go and face against upper level black belts in sparring - I pride myself as being competant, so I don't get too worried - and I get to go up with this stupid motherfvcker - oh joy. When the round begins, even though my instructor, who was the one leading the promotion, told us specifically to go "light to no cantact", he goes hard - I'm slightly annoyed, but I'm tired (as opposed to him, who only had to spar), so I don't care - I go through the motion and wait until the round ends. The round ends, so I put my guard down - but that idiot continues on while everyone is standing still! He gets pulled off to the side and gets reprimended for his conduct while I have to go on with promotion.
Later I find out that he walked over to the head master and tried to convince him that it was MY fault (this is what pisses me off) even though the head master was watching the promotion himself. After the promotion, that fvcker walks over to me and tries to make smalltalk. I'm tired and since this is just a promotion, I don't want to make a scene and make my instructor lose face, so I make a little small talk and politely ignore him.
Now, in three weeks, there's an inner school tournament coming up, and I'm itching to kick his little skinny ass - he wants full contact? Fine - my original school was full-contact based and I have no problems with that . . . but as much as I want to break every single piece of bone in his pitiful little body, I know that as an instructor to my kids, I really shouldn't do that in addition to dirtying my instrutor's name . . . what should I do?
