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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: 10th Dan & Badass Karate Bullshit
- Message-ID: <74315@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:33:03 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.124858.931@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <1992Nov14.045400.26626@gagme.chi.il.us> <Bxs2xn.AC7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <Bxs2xn.AC7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick) writes:
- >Regarding older martial artists...
- ...
- >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?
-
- I guess I've been studying Shao-Lin Kung Fu for about as long
- as you've been studying martial arts, maybe a little less,
- depending on how you count it. Before that I had around
- another 10 years of training in other things (boxing, aikido,
- shotokan, etc.). I'm about 5'11" 180 or 185 lbs. In our
- system we spar a lot. I've sparred with a lot of people in our
- system (and with people from other styles, for that matter),
- both more and less advanced than I. I've even fought a
- few professional fighters (boxers and kickboxers), and
- I have a reasonable idea of how good at fighting I am. I have
- no doubt whatever that our Grandmaster, Sin The', can stomp me, and
- my estimation is based on my judgement of people I've fought,
- rather than on awe or homage to people's rank or station.
-
- Now, Sin The' is only in his fifties, so maybe he doesn't
- count in the Awesome Old Guy Fighters discussion. If what I've
- been reading here and there about the effect of continued exercise
- on aging is any indication, though, I imagine that we could expect
- a very good fighter to keep most of his conditioning as he
- grows older, unless he sustains permanent injuries, and I would
- certainly expect him to get better at the more mental aspects
- of fighting, such as timing, strategy, tactics, and so on.
-
- I'd like to hear comments from anyone who has worked with
- Kwa Saihung or seen him spar; I know that there are people
- reading the group who have at least seen him at seminars.
- He's getting up there in years and has a vaguely articulated
- reputation as a strong fighter even now.
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