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- From: burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: 10th Dan & Badass Karate Bullshit
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:10:34 GMT
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- Regarding older martial artists...
-
- I have met several older instructors who have back or knee injuries
- that don't allow them to practice the arts they love (my own
- instructor, for example) but they remain a wellspring of knowledge.
- I'm currently writing my dissertation on the martial arts and I've
- compiled a 180 page bibliography of the arts, so every once in a while
- I think I'm pretty studly in the amount of m.a. knowledge my brain
- contains. Then I go talk to my instructor and he STILL is able to
- teach me. After all, he's studied martial arts for 30 years, three
- times as long as me, and I still have a ways to go before I match
- him. I find the fact that he and other older martial artists are
- still working out to be very inspiring. I certainly believe
- older martial artists deserve our respect, not only for their
- accomplishments but also for what they can teach us.
-
- Now if I were to get into a fight with one of these guys (why?),
- and they were stupid enough to fight me unarmed (unlikely) in
- a fair and open fight (even more unlikely and stupid), then I
- could probably beat him. There are a few fortunate souls who
- manage to preserve their health/strength/speed into old age
- (Sig Kufferath comes to mind), and I might have more trouble
- with them. But I still think that my instructor could whup me
- (I live in Indiana; "whup" is Hoosier for "defeat", derived from
- the Old American, "whip"; ie. "I whipped him.") if he used a
- weapon, and I think he could find a suitable weapon fairly easily
- in a street environment (If not, he could always use a kubotai
- or a cane).
-
- Comments?
-
- Dakin
- burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
-