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A couple years ago I developed a friendship with a truck driver that made deliveries to the warehouse where I was worked. Dean was a fellow Martial Artist, so we got along pretty well and liked to trade stories. One of the his most memorable stories was the following, about how he was intentionally kicked in the groin.
As I'm sure you have guessed by the title of this page, that his opponent didn't take care to avoid Dean's groin. In fact, immediatly upon starting the match he drove a full power front snap kick into Dean's "jewels". Several long minutes later he was able to climb onto his shaking legs and wheeze a complaint to the referee. This particular tournament did not allow contact below the belt, so clearly there was a rules viloation. Bound by the tournament rules the ref looked sadly at Dean's hunched over, gasping stance, then dissapprovingly at his smirking opponent, and regrettably proclaimed a mere warning to the opponent. Dean, shocked by just a warning being given to his opponent for such a serious, intentional violation, lined up on his mark to continue the match against his smirking advidary.
I don't know the blow-by-blow details of the following match but I do know how it ended. Somehow, despite the pain, Dean managed to throw a spinning hook kick to the other guy's jaw. I assume that, with a hurt groin and the anger boiling through him at the other fellow's intentions, that he probably had quite a load of adrenalin coursing through his system. I can just imagine the guy holding his broken jaw, attempting to talk the ref into a disqualification for excessive contact. The referee, following a "What's fair for you is fair for him" line of logic gave Dean a measly warning for exess. His slack-jawed opponent stormed out of the ring, quitting the match. He could probably be found later, at the the hospital.
The funny thing is, not only did Dean win that match and his divison, but he also went on to win the Grand Championship of the whole tournament. I wonder if it was worth the injury.
What's the moral to this story? Don't wear a cup to tournaments if you want to win, just if you want to walk regularly again?
NOTE: I wrote this from the memory of a conversation that I had a few years ago, so if I misrepresented any of the details and you know the real story, then set me straight. Additionaly, I really only heard one side of the story so my narrative could possibly be one-sided. Despite all this, I do believe the story to be true. I'd still be interested in hearing from "Mr. Groin striker" though.
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