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- From: bleys@wisdom.bubble.org (Bill Cavanaugh)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Thai kickboxing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.073248.10384@wisdom.bubble.org>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 07:32:48 GMT
- References: <MARY.93Jan1145951@martinique.Cayman.COM> <1993Jan02.062954.11574@wisdom.bubble.org> <MARY.93Jan2113815@martinique.Cayman.COM>
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- In article <MARY.93Jan2113815@martinique.Cayman.COM> mary@Cayman.COM (Mary Malmros) writes:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan02.062954.11574@wisdom.bubble.org> bleys@wisdom.bubble.org (Bill Cavanaugh) writes:
- > >
- > >That was his point. That the the places and situations he felt he'd need
- > >to use the art were, by definition, inappropriate for it.
- >
- >The art? Excuse me, the art? The entire art has in it nothing appropriate
- >for such situations?
- >
- >Don't think so. Read on.
- >
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- >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. Hmm, I wonder if there's
- >a pattern here...
-
- Of course there are techniques that will work in any situation. It's been
- my layman's experience that TKD concentrates on kicks to the upper body and
- head, and that there are a lot of spinning and jumping techniques. If I
- was over-tired or slightly drunk I wouldn't want to depend on my balance
- too much if I could avoid it, so I'd prefer punching or low kicks.
- Actually, I'd rather have him grab me so I could throw him, then hold him
- down until either he calmed down or help arrived.
-
- >
- > >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Okay, I'll give you that. Taking the analogy farther, I'd say that there
- are hammers that are better for some jobs than others. This seems to be a
- situation where form is a drawback...
-
- bill
- hey, what happened to that Bob guy who started this? <grin>
- --
- * Bill Cavanaugh bleys@wisdom.bubble.org *
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