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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!mikel
- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: bear hug variation
- Message-ID: <75880@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:50:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.163947.23771@cs.brown.edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1992Dec22.163947.23771@cs.brown.edu> tac@cs.brown.edu (Ted A. Camus) writes:
- >
- > Fred Lovret Sensei (from memory) :
- > "Most schools teach you how to get out of a bad situation. This is
- > entirely wrong. Instead, they should be teaching you how not to get
- > in a bad situation in the first place."
- >
- > I.e., as you've noted, instead of training to escape from a hold,
- > it is better to train to instinctively be able to deal with an attack
- > the instant it begins to manifest itself --
-
- One of the things that some of my students have complained about is that
- it's very difficult to apply many of the cool techniques they have
- learned when they are sparring. A point I like to make is that,
- if we are doing our jobs as teachers then it is bound to be difficult,
- precisely because of what Lovret Sensei has said in the above quote.
- When you have become enamored of some takedown, for example,
- it may be very hard to appreciate the skill your opponent
- shows in preventing you from getting an opportunity to exercise it.
-