robtex
Veteran Member
This is a true story and I am posting it on here because I want to get a feel for how posters percieve this incident. Right after college (early 90's) my old college roommate calls me on the phone. Generally a respectable guy he got into a bar fight the night before and used the only martial arts technique he had ever worked on to win this fight. Osoto gari
http://judoinfo.com/images/animations/blue/osotogari.htm
That part is as important as why the fight happened. He was at a bar near smu campus drinking with his friends and a jamaican sitting at the next table was bad-mouthing the USA on everything from foreign policy to domestic taxation. I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what was said but at one point my old roomie turns around and tells the guy to shut-up and if he doesn't like this country than leave (the country).
The fella makes some more trash talk about the USA both guys stand-up, punches are thrown, my old roommate does his throw (see above link) and the guy lands head-first on a hardwood floor knocked silly. The bouncers elated someone shut-up the anti-american trash talker drag the semi concious man outside. People cheer and someone buys my old roomie a beer.
When I heard the story however I felt sad. Sad that a politicial dissagreement could only be resolved through violence. On a larger scale I wonder if some wars could have been negociated to resolution or if war was the only option. If you had been my old roommie in the bar that night and a fella was talking trash about your country what would you have done and why? If you had seen the incident as a patron would you have bought my old roomie a beer or cheered him on?
http://judoinfo.com/images/animations/blue/osotogari.htm
That part is as important as why the fight happened. He was at a bar near smu campus drinking with his friends and a jamaican sitting at the next table was bad-mouthing the USA on everything from foreign policy to domestic taxation. I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what was said but at one point my old roomie turns around and tells the guy to shut-up and if he doesn't like this country than leave (the country).
The fella makes some more trash talk about the USA both guys stand-up, punches are thrown, my old roommate does his throw (see above link) and the guy lands head-first on a hardwood floor knocked silly. The bouncers elated someone shut-up the anti-american trash talker drag the semi concious man outside. People cheer and someone buys my old roomie a beer.
When I heard the story however I felt sad. Sad that a politicial dissagreement could only be resolved through violence. On a larger scale I wonder if some wars could have been negociated to resolution or if war was the only option. If you had been my old roommie in the bar that night and a fella was talking trash about your country what would you have done and why? If you had seen the incident as a patron would you have bought my old roomie a beer or cheered him on?