From: btv@omega.oche.de (Fitos Imre)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Fights and blackbelt confidence
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...)

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