I guess it’s too late now, but my teacher (whose school I teach at) is throwing a massive annual party in about…twenty minutes. I have a hold on how to handle myself, but man…it is weird sometimes to see students outside the regular environment.
Or rather, to have the ones that stay late into the night…see me…in my 2am state…
Is this a particular concern only for karate/traditional schools, schools that teach children, or is it common even in informal, adult-only schools?
Yeah, we have a strict policy on flying rocketships between instructors and students. I’ve had to play defense from both sides of the divide.
Being fun-drunk in front of the parents or newer students can be weird. Usually they get it when they realize I can still wash a kid’s head wound, discipline unruly trampoline-jumpers, and keep drunk idiots calm while I’m tipsy.
My instructor likes to get drunk and go to bars and throw chairs around. I don’t know what it is about him and chairs, but he’s been kicked out of most bars near our school. He also hits on fat chicks when he’s drunk.
Raise your hand if you’ve been blackballed from bars after several of your training partners pro debuts.
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Raise your hand if you’ve been present for or participated in fights between training partners/instructors and members of other fight teams.
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Raise your hand if you’ve gotten drunk with your coaches and teammates in vip lounges.
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Raise your hand if your instructor is currently nursing one of those annoying, don’t quite know how it happened drunken injuries.
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Raise your hand if your instructor started kimura-ing people in the bar because he was so fucked the fuck up that some lady had to be saying “Sir! Sir!!! Sir, I’m sorry, but you can’t do that in here. Sir?!? Siiiiirrrrrrrrrrrr!!?!”