Second reason is that he was choked out at his Jujitsu class and is having some vision problems and other issues. He was teaching a kid how to do a RNC and told the kid not to sink it in to deap, well kids will be kids...and the choke from a rather large thirteen year old forced him to tap, but the kid waited a split second to late and the lights went out for my buddy. Then on the way home he started having vision issues, like a migrane and then he felt like he was going to puke and got real dizzy! So, that brings me to my story! How uncle Kensei choked out three people in one day...all by accident I assure you...well almost!
A bunch of years back I was teaching at a club I owned and ran and a few students used to stay after Karate to do some Judo/Sambo with the old guys. I had a blast bringing out the mats from the back room and tossing them around. we also did something called knee Sambo, were you dont throw the guy, you start on your knees and grapple for submissions till you get one and then you stay in till you loose a match, each looser gets a rest while the next guy goes in. This day we did a mini tournament with all the kids that were their and some of the older guys that stuck around. We had strict rules and the whole group around the rings (we had two set up) would ref but only one guy was head ref.
That day I went split the group up with about seven people in both rings. I went to one and my junior instructor to the other. He had little judo training but he did do Jujitsu with a friend who was a purple belt. He was not that bad. So, I was teaching and rolling at the same time and the joke was that the students would call out how I was to beat the opponent ( arm, leg or neck only) I was in for about twenty minutes when the group called out neck. I worked for a guilletine, but it was not going my way the person was quick to get both arms in, I had my feet on his hips and spun him as I dropped him. he landed back to my stomach and I worked for a RNC. The problem is that we were both tired and wet and finnally I got it sinched in, but the guy would not tap and the crowd was not stopping the fight, this guy was bigger than me and I was not going to let go. He kept putting his weight on me to make it hard to breath and then I noticed that his fighting with my arms had stopped and his weight was just even on my chest.....He was out so fast I could not react and let go, he was out. So...I won...he woke up a second or two later and seemed fine. He was out of the "tournament" and the nurse that trained with us checked him and he seemed fine.
Next opponent I tackled I got a clean knee bar on them and they tapped out very quickly.
The next student was a young girl, but she was one of my best students and very aggressive. She would punch you in the elbow and bust a knuckle to get you to drop your arm so she could kick you in the head...just like me...she was a mean striker! But she was not a great grappler. I was trying not to hurt her when she tried to slap a arm bar on me, I spun out of it and forced one of her legs under my chest and got a north south possition with her face up and me face down, but I also scooped her head up in my arm so I had a arm triangle, but I was not sure how I had her as she was flailing about trying to get out of the hold. I was not sure I had her till she went limp! The ref " a brown belt of mine" stopped me and said she was out....I was a bit shocked as I had never used an arm traingle before and Sambo does not teach them...at least I dont remember that being taught! She woke up and was fine...in fact a week later she used the same move on a fellow student during our week end rolling.
the two circles had been brought together for the last challenge of the day and it was me against my junior instructor, a young guy with his Shodan that was my Kohai, or direct junior. I was responsible for his Karate training and had coached him to several tournament wins in the Karate circuit in our organization.
most of the students stuck around for this and we rolled for 45 minutes trying to get eachothers limbs or a neck, and he was very defensive and I was trying to let him get me so I could counter, but we basically moved from possition to possition to possitino for thirty minutes. we were both tired and the mats were soaked. I tried a scarf hold from the half mount and the choke did not take because he turned and gave me his back, I went for a RNC but he turtled then tried to roll out and get a knee bar, I counter with a kimura attempt and then finally after what seemed like all day, He gave me his back when he was so tired, I sunk in the RNC and had my legs tight around his body. with in a second he was limp and out, it was the fasted Choke out I had ever seen. My arms...for once were perfectly placed...and I just stopped the blood for a second or two....
Two weeks later we got a memo from the karate chief instructor of our group and we could not roll anymore in conjunction with Karate classes. our insurance was a bit nervous about us hurting each other and the chairman of the organization was sure we would loose it if we started choking eachother out and breaking arms, knees or ankles. We stopped and those rolling mini-tournaments became classics and legondary in our club. I still have a bit of a reputation as a grappler, even if it is not warrented.
on a side note. I was teaching some basic wrestling and grappling to my students before the ban. a young brown belt from down town came into the club, took the class then when we all rolled he got me in one of the fastest head locks I had ever seen. It was not quite a guillotine, but more of a rough head lock. I could not pop out and when I went to the floor with him, he kept it tight. I tapped out to it as I could not figure a "nice" way out of the head lock. It was the first time in ten years that I had tapped and it was a nice basic hold. He went on to compete and train in Jujitsu and that is the guy with the issues I started the post with. His rolling with me got him interested in doing it full time and doing Karate as well. I dont see why the two should not be mixed....but I dont own a club anymore, got old and had a family.
And that is how Uncle Kensei choked out three people in one day.
