  We explore a novel method of describing the radiation friction of particles
traveling through a mechanically resistive medium. We introduce a particle
motion induced matter warping along the path in a manner assuring that charged
particle dynamics occurs subject to radiative energy loss described by the
Larmor formula. We compare our description with the Landau-Lifshitz-like model
for the radiation friction and show that the established model exhibits
non-physical behavior. Our approach predicts in the presence of large
mechanical friction an upper limit on radiative energy loss being equal to the
energy loss due to the mechanical medium resistance. We demonstrate that
mechanical friction due to strong interactions, for example of quarks in
quark-gluon plasma, can induce significant soft photon radiation.
