And don't sell them to students as "street reality"
the psyche of sparring
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f.Channell
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Thanks for getting this thread started.
Stryke is right on with the thoughts I had. He has had the same feelings obviously as I. (got to head north I guess)
And it's alright to enter a competition and be an easy mark for someone.
because the real goal is to win that fight within yourself.
The fight that allows you mentally to think "get out of my ring".
More people lose at a competition than win.
Just like real life.
Stryke mentions another key point there in the preparation for the tournament. For him it was 3 months.
So at what level and for how long do you have to train hard for the 300 monster whose truck your shopping cart just hit?
One of the key features of competition is it forces you to train harder and set goals for yourself. Otherwise your goal may be a dan test in 5 years.
So for 4.5 years you go through the motions and then you train hard for 6 months. big deal.......
If you busted butt training hard for 3 months aren't you still better off even if you get your butt handed to you?
An awesome book on this subject is Judo heart and soul by Hayward Nishioka, any martial artist will enjoy this book because of all the advise it gives along these lines. He states that the people who can defeat you the easiest are the ones you should seek to fight the most.
Funakoshi said it well in his 12th principle. Do not think of winning, think, rather, of not losing. In this way you keep your humility and are more cautious with your opponents and picking out their strengths.
F.
Stryke is right on with the thoughts I had. He has had the same feelings obviously as I. (got to head north I guess)
And it's alright to enter a competition and be an easy mark for someone.
because the real goal is to win that fight within yourself.
The fight that allows you mentally to think "get out of my ring".
More people lose at a competition than win.
Just like real life.
Stryke mentions another key point there in the preparation for the tournament. For him it was 3 months.
So at what level and for how long do you have to train hard for the 300 monster whose truck your shopping cart just hit?
One of the key features of competition is it forces you to train harder and set goals for yourself. Otherwise your goal may be a dan test in 5 years.
So for 4.5 years you go through the motions and then you train hard for 6 months. big deal.......
If you busted butt training hard for 3 months aren't you still better off even if you get your butt handed to you?
An awesome book on this subject is Judo heart and soul by Hayward Nishioka, any martial artist will enjoy this book because of all the advise it gives along these lines. He states that the people who can defeat you the easiest are the ones you should seek to fight the most.
Funakoshi said it well in his 12th principle. Do not think of winning, think, rather, of not losing. In this way you keep your humility and are more cautious with your opponents and picking out their strengths.
F.
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Lots of interesting stuff coming out...
Everyone's different. I'm competitive by nature, so never had a problem with the drive part. As for putting a taste of reality in it all, well that all happened just fine as a teenager in the Nixon years with long hair working around rednecks. Nothing like some fat-bellied "rasslers" suffering from a serious case of white man crack wanting to f*** you up for being a smart-assed, college boy hippie.
Moi? Smart assed? Wherever would they get that idea??
Anyhow, I was studying Japanese karate from a crazy Japanese who was a samurai descendent. I would drive 45 minutes to Williamsburg to study from the man at W&M. He was a mean SOB, but I appreciated it at the time. Made those rednecks seem less threatening in comparison.
And this was where I got to get the crap kicked out of me by my first football players: Barry French, Jim Thomas, and Bill Stockey. Bill is still a good friend, and quite the martial artist. You can google a picture or two of him here and there around the 'net.
Those were the days... Sparring with no Safe-T-Crap, workouts in the summer w/o AC, getting beaten senseless with a shinai for backing up, having that sick feeling in my stomach through many classes... It was good and bad at the same time. But it was timely for me. These were tense times, and I'm not the shrinking violet. The hell in the dojo made the hell at my summer job much more bearable.
Several years later I started Uechi. And Rad Smith was on his own tear at the time. Big, and frighteningly fast. Loved to work with me because he could slam me, and I wouldn't break. Got hurt a few times...but wouldn't break.
People wonder where my feistiness comes from. Part nature, and part nurture. Part the Irish hellion, and part a product of the times.
You never lose that competitiveness, or the desire to kick the dust up a bit now and then. It's good for what ails you. It keeps rigor mortis from setting in the body and the brain.
To each his/her own.
- Bill
Everyone's different. I'm competitive by nature, so never had a problem with the drive part. As for putting a taste of reality in it all, well that all happened just fine as a teenager in the Nixon years with long hair working around rednecks. Nothing like some fat-bellied "rasslers" suffering from a serious case of white man crack wanting to f*** you up for being a smart-assed, college boy hippie.
Moi? Smart assed? Wherever would they get that idea??
Anyhow, I was studying Japanese karate from a crazy Japanese who was a samurai descendent. I would drive 45 minutes to Williamsburg to study from the man at W&M. He was a mean SOB, but I appreciated it at the time. Made those rednecks seem less threatening in comparison.
And this was where I got to get the crap kicked out of me by my first football players: Barry French, Jim Thomas, and Bill Stockey. Bill is still a good friend, and quite the martial artist. You can google a picture or two of him here and there around the 'net.
Those were the days... Sparring with no Safe-T-Crap, workouts in the summer w/o AC, getting beaten senseless with a shinai for backing up, having that sick feeling in my stomach through many classes... It was good and bad at the same time. But it was timely for me. These were tense times, and I'm not the shrinking violet. The hell in the dojo made the hell at my summer job much more bearable.
Several years later I started Uechi. And Rad Smith was on his own tear at the time. Big, and frighteningly fast. Loved to work with me because he could slam me, and I wouldn't break. Got hurt a few times...but wouldn't break.
People wonder where my feistiness comes from. Part nature, and part nurture. Part the Irish hellion, and part a product of the times.
You never lose that competitiveness, or the desire to kick the dust up a bit now and then. It's good for what ails you. It keeps rigor mortis from setting in the body and the brain.
To each his/her own.
- Bill
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f.Channell
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I think women are definately more dangerous.
Just ask Mr Bobbitt..........
Or the spirit of that guy in Boston who spent 14 years in a freezer......
Or Mr Bordens spirit in Fall River.........
F.
Just ask Mr Bobbitt..........
Or the spirit of that guy in Boston who spent 14 years in a freezer......
Or Mr Bordens spirit in Fall River.........
F.
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