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- From: ian@csc.liv.ac.uk (Ian Finch)
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- Subject: Re: Fights and blackbelt confidence
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:47:04 GMT
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- Sam Hulick (shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- That feeling should wear off sometime around green belt! :-)
-
- > 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!
- >
- I would think that sitting there and not saying anything comes under the
- heading of `avoiding a fight at all costs'.
-
- > :). Any one else feel this way?
- >
- I feel exactly the opposite. There are situations where I would consider
- that I `have to fight', but someone making rude comments is not such a
- situation. Let someone hassle you, it's not doing you any harm because you
- are a better person than they are. If they decide to hit you, then you
- should defend yourself! There are obviously border cases (``I'm going to
- hit you now'' being one), but consider the scenario:
-
- Thug: [says something threatening]
- You: [hit thug to defend yourself (or your pride or whatever)]
-
- [At your trial]
- Witness: The victim said something to the defendent who then beat him up using
- his deadly martial arts training.
-
- Cheers,
- Ian
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