The Fight

This story is being presented from three perspectives. First, it is describing one side of a conversation between me and a friend when we are discussing a fight that I had watched earlier that day. Second, it is describing the conversation between me and the principal, a conversation where he is interrogating me about what I had seen of the same fight. Lastly, I am teaching students the same two techiques which I described in the previous conversation. This is meant to show just how your terminology changes depending on who your talking to.


Friend:
     I couldn't believe it. He swung at him, a full on wild punch; id be surprised if he would have even done any damage if he hit. But he didn't get close. Mark just ducked under and put him in a chicken wing, then he brought him down into a figure four. It was so funny; felt sorry for the kid though. He had no idea who he was fighting.

Principal:
    Yes, sir. I was there. No, sir he did not throw the first punch. Yes, sir it was in self-defense. Well, um, he ducked and blocked his punch. It was an accident, if your not careful you can easily break a persons arm with a technique like that; the chicken wing, sir. It was an accident. No, taking him to the ground was just to make sure he could hold until someone came. Yes, that was intentional. It is called a figure four, sir.


Student:
   Ok, today we are going to be learning two new techniques. The first is called the Chicken Wing. Here let me show you. Ok, now slower this time. See, when someone grabs your wrist, you first break free, then twist under their arm; but keep your grip on their hand like this. This allows you to manipulate them from behind and lets you guide them to where you want them to go. This works because it is locking their elbow joint and threatening to break it. Careful when practicing this, do it to quick and you could snap their arm. If you want to take them down, as well, you can use this technique instead. It can play off of the chicken wing too, but be careful when you use this......