Would you consider this person a good martial arts instructor?

It is curious that the comments suggest the clip was a prank. I can't verify it, so I don't know what to think of the video, except that at face value - the instructor is a schmuck. He's giving MMA schools a bad rep - prank or not - and fuels the mindset that many MMA fans have about TMA and in martial arts in general.

Considering the whole thing is a prank I think the question of his instructing ability is kind of irrelevant.

If it had been real there are a few variables that would influence my thoughts on the matter - I'd be interested to know what the instructions given were and I'd like to know the student's ability level.

The instructor demonstrated what he was going to do so if his instructions were to 'block this punch' I think it was perfectly justified. If the student is a higher level even the 'get up you sook' punt after he stepped over him becomes tolerable. When I did Kyokushin I smart-mouthed one of my teachers, as a 2nd kyu I really should have known better and I did, I just couldn't resist the bait. I wore a back-fist across the face and was informed that I had fifty burpies and several laps of the park waiting for me when the bleeding stopped.

If he told his student to keep his hands down because he wasn't going to hit him I might reconsider and call it a cheap shot, then again, I might not. I don't know these people and can't make out what they're saying so it's hard to judge.

NO! Nor would I consider him a good person either; he is an idiot and jerk of the lowest level also. Look at his size, weight and frame as compared to the other guy and its not hard to knock out a guy you have 45-60 lbs on with a round house right when he thinks you are going to pull the punch and does nothing to defend against it.

Idiots like this guy are #ssholes and give martial and fighting arts a bad image and also sometimes transfer their #sshole attitude to others and they end up thinking its alright. Just look and listen to their reactions after the guy goes down and you can see and hear them smiling and laughing. Notice also though that it was none of them who got sucker punched and dropped by this jerk that calls himself an instructor or coach.

Guys like this that buy 3-4 mats and maybe a few other pieces of equipment and teach in the city park or a back yard are not teaching in a legitimate school or gym for a reason. That reason is because they are poor amateurs themselves at best who don't have the skill, knowledge, and background to teach anyplace better than that.

As for the guy that got sucker punched I hope he sued the idiot's butt off if his jaw was broken. It looked like it might have been and it does not take a lot of skill and ability to do that against an unsuspecting partner that you have a clear weight and size advantage on-it just takes being an idiot and #sshole.

This is what gives MMA its sleazy reputation amongst traditional schools. It gives the impression of hard butt no holds barred no respect ground and pound bull, in my humble opinion.

Any instructor who abuses his position of authority that way is not teaching anything useful to the student. It teaches respect only for power. All the young men there learned to do was to abuse some unsuspecting sucker. As old and creaky as I am I wonder how that jerk would last in our school against real men and women who know what to do against a round punch from some jerk with his guard down.

The students who laughed at someone being knocked down in a class at our school would have been disciplined. No one laughs at another student or instructor unless they tell a good joke. This instructor is a joke though not a good one.

I don't speak... I guess Russian?... so I don't know the complete context. I will allow for the possibility that he was telling him to protect himself; after all, he did show him exactly what he was going to do before he threw the punch. And we didn't really see him doing a whole lot of instruction, so as an INSTRUCTOR, it's a little hard to judge. However, given the atmosphere of the class, I would consider him a bad LEADER.

But with such an overwhelmingly negative response from the folks on here, I wonder what you were expecting? Why did you post the clip?

It's fake, how do I know? Because why would you be filming an INSTRUCTIONAL video on the opposite side of where it's happening. There voices won't be heard over the microphone and you won't see what is being displayed because of the poor angle, and any average joe can recognize when something isn't going to be seen clearly you need to move. But no he specefically filmed it at an angle that makes the punch look real.

That is a very bad instructor and the students.....are even worst....If somebody wants to learn like that, he can become a hooligan and learn like that....No need for this type of instruction...It will be safer also to be a hooligan rather with an instructor like that, since he will be able to fight back and if he is good, most of the times he will not even get hit...Lol!!!

Edit: As it seems the video was a prank....Here is the continuation of the video in Russian....:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWUQ06yZZmo

I'm glad he got his priorities in order. The instructor didn't even help the lad up. That is why punching bags were created.

No. That was a cheap shot.

When you are instructing a student, you should show him a technique. Not blast him out of left field.

It's a poorly run school. I don't know why anyone was laughing when that kid got drilled.

No, I would not.

Fortunately that video is not real, but I have seen things like that occur in reality.