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Originally posted by old skool dude
I sorta agree with Bri on this one. Although I would substiture the term "lesser able individuals" as opposed to lesser able systems.
I recall many years ago when I was a teenager and first started learning Goju. I had no prior training in the art ( aside from a couple of months of hung gar I took from age 11-12)
I used to run everyday, and shadow box, spar...(jailhouse... I PROMISE I wont start THAT THREAD AGAIN!
) and picked up a coupla things from karate magazines I could get my hands on. I came into the school and the instructor asked me If I wanted to spar. I said okay, they put me up against a coupla white belts, I beat em.Then came some yellow belts, same thing. They brought out some green and purple belts... same thing. The only ones who gave me a challange was some of the black belts. At that point the instructor yelled stop, turned to me and said, "where'd you learn to fight like that? where'd you learn to kick like that?" I told him "from books..." He laughed his ass off and teased the students who got beat! It was a surreal experience. I eventually joined the class and from day one started working out (as a white belt) with the brown and black belts.
As an "untrained person" I wasnt really impressed with any of the posturing kicks etc. Because although my "training " was raw, I was accustomed to hitting, and being hit, so it was no big thing.
I recall many years ago when I was a teenager and first started learning Goju. I had no prior training in the art ( aside from a couple of months of hung gar I took from age 11-12)
I used to run everyday, and shadow box, spar...(jailhouse... I PROMISE I wont start THAT THREAD AGAIN!
) and picked up a coupla things from karate magazines I could get my hands on. I came into the school and the instructor asked me If I wanted to spar. I said okay, they put me up against a coupla white belts, I beat em.Then came some yellow belts, same thing. They brought out some green and purple belts... same thing. The only ones who gave me a challange was some of the black belts. At that point the instructor yelled stop, turned to me and said, "where'd you learn to fight like that? where'd you learn to kick like that?" I told him "from books..." He laughed his ass off and teased the students who got beat! It was a surreal experience. I eventually joined the class and from day one started working out (as a white belt) with the brown and black belts. As an "untrained person" I wasnt really impressed with any of the posturing kicks etc. Because although my "training " was raw, I was accustomed to hitting, and being hit, so it was no big thing.
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