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- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!bobsarv
- From: bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver)
- Subject: Re: Thai kickboxing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.033034.2291@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Jan 93 03:30:34 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <MARY.93Jan2113815@martinique.Cayman.COM> <MARY.92Dec31095109@martinique.Cayman.COM><1993Jan01.075416.1570@wisdom.bubble.org><MARY.93Jan1145951@martinique.Cayman.COM><1993Jan02.062954.11574@wisdom.bubble.org>
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- (mary)
- >>Personally, I don't have a lot of respect for people who expect a
- >>martial art to save them from the consequences of their own stupidity
-
- (bley)
- >(neither does anybody else here. I'm not sure how it applies to this
- >discussion, though...)
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-
- It doesn't. Mary has created a nonrelated situation out of a simple
- question I asked (and have since regretted asking).
-
- Just curious: when a newcomer posts a question to this newsgroup, is it
- normal procedure for someone like Mary to come out, guns blazing, and pull
- this kind of stunt?
-
- Someone should post a disclaimer at the top of the newsgroup:
- WARNING--this newsgroup has the following sacred cows that are not to be
- touched.
- WARNING--the following "frequent posters" in this newsgroup have axes
- to grind.
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-
- /(mary)
- /Doing a wheel kick on a gravel parking lot when you've had a couple of
- /beers is exactly the same sort of thing. You go and get yourself
- /stupid with alcohol to begin with, and then you use a completely
- /inappropriate technique for the situation.
-
- 'Get yourself stupid'? You wouldn't be a religious fundamentalist, or
- something like that, would you Mary? You have a towering dislike for
- alcohol, and a stubborn insistence that whatever happens to me after I
- have had three beers must be my fault (I guess I must have asked to
- be mugged).
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- /(mary)
- /Hmm, I wonder if there's a pattern here...
-
- The only pattern here is your habit of consistent overreaction to the
- word 'alcohol'.
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- (bley)
- >Right. Exactly. TKD is a wrench. Bob needs a hammer. He could learn,
- >with practice, to drive nails with the wrench, but it wouldn't make any
- >sense to do that when there are perfectly good hammers available.
-
- /(mary)
- /Your argument does not follow from mine. I was talking about techniques;
- /you are talking about an entire art. It is most certainly not the case
- /that "TKD is a wrench." TKD is a toolbox, and you picked up the wrench
- /when you should have chosen the hammer.
-
- Fine. However, in the TKD toolbox, the wrench is huge, well built and
- intricate--and a little glitzy. The only hammer included is a lot smaller,
- and I didn't get as much experience with it as I wanted (due to all the
- training I got using this snazzy wrench). So now I'm looking for another
- toolbox with harder, more basic tools that work together better than
- the TKD tools do.
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