Martial arts culture places high value on sparring etiquette. Hit as hard as you want to be hit. This is just the golden rule.
Guests in any culture usually defer to the host, and take a passive stance to the host's direction.
These are basic things any person should understand regardless of whether they're studying martial arts. The guest in this case has shown his attitudes to these basic moral ideas through his actions.
Several other technical notes -
Push hands rules forbid neck holds. This is because clinching technique is so effective that nobody would use or train anything else.
The hosts do not hold the neck once. The guest seems to exclusively use neck hold and leg trip techniques. As a matter of fact, in his last throw he starts with his hand on the opponent's neck and immediately slams him onto the concrete.
The guest stands over his fallen opponent, and then chooses to step over across his opponent's face. This is very bad manners.
The guest chooses to use vertical throw which forces the opponent to fall backwards. Usually this is not an issue, but this is a stage made of concrete and the ground below the stage is also concrete. The guest showed blatant disregard for whether the host can brace for such impact and whether the host would be seriously injured or whether his life would be put in danger from head trauma.
The guest brings an energy level which is clearly much higher than everyone else.
The guest in this situation shows a gross disregard for his partner's safety.
He operated outside of the ruleset at the host's event, slammed the host onto the cement floor repeatedly, at one point stood over his host and nearly grazed his face while stepping off.
This is not a competition with reward money. This was an event to allow the guest to market himself for his own commercial interest. Instead, he decided to endanger the host's health. The message this sends is - he cares more about his apparent superiority than the welfare of those around him.
The host on the other hand, did not complain once despite the fact that he was being slammed repeatedly on the concrete and was fully compliant on letting the guest showcase what he had to offer.
The lack of respect the guest showed to the host, the organizers and the audience ruined the purpose of the event.
In the video, the organizers put a premature end to the event because of the danger that the guest put the host in.
What are your thoughts?
