Originally Posted by
franklie
I was at a local BJJ school recently watching the training. At the end of the normal training lesson there was open mat. This particular evening there was a 16 yo girl with a low level belt and an adult dude transitioning to be a woman (transition-guy) also a low level belt. Both of them were fairly new to the school.
As soon as open mat was called, transition-guy pointed his finger at the teenage girl to have her roll with him. I figured just like most of the people at the school figured, since he was so much bigger (at least 70-lb heavier and 8-10 inches taller) that he would be able to man-handle her.
I watched them roll. It became obvious quite quickly that even though they were both beginners that the girl had better technigue than transition-guy. Since she wasn't as easy to control or tap out as he had thought, he tried to overpower her. And then I guess she thought he had perved on her in some manner. The next thing I know she was choking him out. The move is called the Ezekiel choke as I was told later. He was too macho to tap out so he went lights out and he might have shit himself at the same time.
I remember thinking to myself, "you go, girl!"
I found out afterward, she 'don't play' and that she's from a rough neighborhood and is taking martial arts for self-defence.
I've been trying to correlate this event in mind with what members of this forum have talked about with respect to martial arts and technique vs strength and it doesn't add up. What I saw on the mat was a dude trying to be a woman who was trying to dominate a girl in a practice session and instead got choked out. The only thing that made sense to me was the dude was being a typical guy with shit for brains. He was unable to accept that he was in a bad position and reaped the consequences.