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- From: btv@omega.oche.de (Fitos Imre)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Fights and blackbelt confidence
- Message-ID: <gate.ugouXB1w165w@omega.oche.de>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 17:03:41 GMT
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- shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
-
- >This is why I make it a point to myself never to be "obtrusive" until
- >I'm at least a 3rd gup. By obtrusive, I mean if someone says something
- >"Hey asshole, blah blah blah" and I reply "Hah! <sarcastic response>".
- >Or as Jowfus said, "That's not fair." Whether you're being sarcastic or
- >sincere or mean, the person you're addressing may or may not take it
- >offensively and decided to try to kick your ass.
-
- Hmmm. I dunno, but i was offended many times, and it didn't count
- what i said to them...Here, in my country (Hungary), offenders usually
- try to provoke me to hit first, so after the bashing they can claim that
- they (five guys) were just defending themselves...against me (hehe)
-
-
- > [stuff about aggressive kid deleted]
-
- Yeah, another fine example of misusing someone's body power.
- There are people everywhere who misuse their power, even when they have
- black belts...
-
- >While we're on the topic, I know blackbelts aren't invincible or
- >anything, but I think it's a confidence thing. I know that, personally,
- >after I had gone through years of training and had become a blackbelt,
- >I'd feel pretty good about myself and sure as hell wouldn't hesitate to
- >talk back to someone who was giving me a hard time. Now I'm just a
- >white belt, and when someone starts hassling me, I remain unobtrusive
- >and just take it, which I don't really like doing. This doesn't mean
- >that when I'm a blackbelt, and someone bugs me, I'd throw them across
- >the room. As our instructor said, avoid a fight at all costs, but if
- >you have to fight, do what you must. I don't think I'd be egging him
- >on, but if someone started making rude comments about my best friend,
- >I'm not going to sit there and not say anything (as I do now. me wimp!
- >:). Any one else feel this way?
-
- Black belt is (for me, and my master) is not simply a 'licence
- to kill' , or just the artifact what proves that i have a certainly high
- technical knowledge. If you learn MA for 8 years, you will be capable of
- killing or injuring anyone with only bare hands, so i consider this
- knowledge as a weapon. so, i ask you, if you have a gun in your pocket,
- and your friend is being offended, do you pull out your .45 and point it
- into the mouth of the offender? (i don't say shot him dead, but actually
- threat him). i think that in your present state (you said 'wimp', so you
- feel like a wimp, don't you?) you would happily point the gun at him,
- as anyone else, who doesn't have a ceertain level of self-control and
- confidence (?). Those , who have this self-control, simply cool things
- down instead of beating (or shotting dead) the offenders. This
- self-control is needed to have when somebody has a black belt in any MA,
- and this is what separates a student from a master. You can't learn this
- as the technics, you have to achieve it during the practice, and in
- everyday life. i hope that when you'll be a blackbelt, you'll not talk
- back as you want to kick some ass...
-
- Summary: only the knowledge of the technics is like giving a 10 years
- old kid a Magnum...
-
- About myself, i study aikido in a rebel dojo, my belt is not
- accepted anywhere else in the world. i met with various styles, i don't
- think any of them is superior to the others. i think that the man is
- the important factor, not the technics. (BTW i prefer the technics of the
- local antiterrorist group, but now i can't practice anymore there...)
-
- --
- Fitos Imre, in his 'special' fluent state of mind... AAAAARRRGGGGGHHH!!!!!!
- ((( You have to forgive me, even I don't know if I'm serious or funny )))
-