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I think what happened was horrible. As somebody with almost 20 years of martial arts experience I'd never raise a hand against a female (or anyone who was defenseless) and it's so infuriating to see anybody with training misusing their skills like that. Respect and self control are the core of the martial arts spirit, he clearly doesn't abide by those traditions and needs to be put down and have it done very, very painful fashion.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 paulson games wrote:
As somebody with almost 20 years of martial arts experience I'd never raise a hand against a female (or anyone who was defenseless)

I understand the “not attacking someone defenseless”, but you would never raise a hand against a woman? You would refuse a match against a woman even if she was just as skilled as you are in martial arts?

There is a difference between a sparring match and beating somebody.

I have sparred with plenty of women when training students over the years, there is no hostile intent involved in sparring and it is an exercise and sport to develop skill. Upmost care and self control is used by all involved to avoid injuring their opponent regardless of if they are male or female.

"Raising a hand" consists of beating or assaulting someone with intent to inflict harm, pain, or injury on the other person, which is an entirely different scenario and one I would not resort to.