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- From: alph@wsinfo01.win.tue.nl (G.J.W. Hagenaars)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Fights and blackbelt confidence
- Message-ID: <5092@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:42:39 GMT
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- popovich@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Popovich) writes:
-
- >>>This is why I make it a point to myself never to be "obtrusive" until
- >>>I'm at least a 3rd gup.
- >>
- >>Like Joel I have to wonder...why 3rd kyu/gup?
-
- >Well, if this was the guy who was asking about Shotokan, 3rd kyu is
- >often where one begins to wear a brown belt. It's probably very
- >similar in Tae Kwon Do for 3rd gup. And as many if not all of us
- >know, brown belt is where one is "supposed"* to get (and resist) that
- >temptation to "test out" one's training in a "real situation". It
- >looks like our friend here is anticipating that condition a bit.
-
- >*"Supposed" as in "It commonly happens," not as in "Should."
- > -Steve
-
- I take the liberty to disagree with you on your first point. He
- probably is making his point about not being obtrusive because he is
- likely to _loose_. (This is the way I read his attitude.)
-
- But I _do_ agree with your description `resist the temptation to test
- out', I think you ought to be convinced never to use your skills in
- that way, no matter how short you've trained. Your sensei should point
- this out as soon as possible (as the sensei of the first poster did).
- It's Martial Arts. Not War Games.
-
- I also don't understand this `I want a black belt'-attitude a lot of
- people seem to have. Right now I have a blue belt. I have had this
- one for almost two years, although my sensei would prefer me to take
- the next exam, I'm not going to do that. I play along with the brown
- belts in our class. I sometimes explain things to `lower' belts. I
- don't _NEED_ a black belt. The first poster probably wants one, so
- he can SAY he has one. Or, even worse, to USE his skills when he
- _thinks_ he is being harassed.
-
- I do not think those reasons are good enough to start taking up a MA.
-
- Gert-Jan Hagenaars
- alph@win.tue.nl
-