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- From: stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave)
- Subject: Re: Fights and blackbelt confidence
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:00:17 GMT
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- In article <C19zr4.4xA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
- 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
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- Why 3rd gup, especially?
-
- |> 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
-
- Why wait all that time? Why not get a gun and a license to carry it?
-
- |> 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?
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- A suggestion: Show you instructor your post along with this and any
- other replies you get. Ask him/her to be more specific about exaclty
- what that "all costs" in "avoid a fight at all costs" means.
-
- Joel Stave
- stave@apollo.hp.com
-