Let’s say you have a particularly training partner that you are applying the submission on during a training session.

You know (or at least assume) that the submission is tight and that he should be tapping out…
And yet, he is not tapping.

Should you keep applying the submission?
Even though it might mean that there is a risk of an injury?

It is the training partner’s responsibility to tap out, after all…
But Tom DeBlass wouldn’t fully agree on that.

When it comes to training, he would rather that you did not break the training partner’s limbs just because they did not tap out:

If someone doesn’t want to tap in training, should we keep applying the submission until it breaks?
On behalf of all the school owner out there, the answer is, please NO!!!

What you should rather do is communicate with them, so that there are no unnecessary injuries:

If someone is reluctant to tap please speak to them and speak to the instructor.

There is absolutely no need to break someone in training because their ego is too big.
It simply makes your instructor’s life much more complicated.

So, the next time you roll with that stubborn training partner…
Make sure to communicate things with them and that you let go of the submission rather than hold on to it.

 

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