The military, jujitsu, front kick and wet paper bags...

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"Shorinryu Sensei

 

Black Belt"

 

'Bout time!Congrats, even if it is just for talking!

 

WapCaplet- reminds me of Jim Nolan. (Don't wrack your brain, you don't know of him). In one tour in the Navy, Nolan was on an aircraft carrier, in subs, a SeaBee, and of course, a Navy Seal. If you'd done it, Nolan had done it better. All kinds of ranks in dang near anything martial. We all measured your tolerance for * as your Nolan Quotient. Sounds sort of like your guy.

 

Your Sensei did the right thing. He gave the guy a chance, even though I bet he knew the result from day one. Besides his attempts to build himself up by undermining the instructors, something no 'Master' would do, his comments showed a complete lack of understanding.

 

thaiboxerken pretty much said it about the front kick:

The snap kick isn't really a powershot, but if it's well timed and placed, it can serve to knock the wind out of a person or distract them enough to open up other opportunities of attack. A kick doesn't have to be powerful to work, just use it for the right reason.

 

As for the example set for his kids, I don't think they stand much of a chance in that regard. This kind of person is focused only on themselves. Pretty sad.

[Shorinryu Sensei]

"Shorinryu Sensei

 

Black Belt"

 

'Bout time!Congrats, even if it is just for talking!

 

Thanks. Nice to know I have a black belt in shooting the bull, huh? A dubious honor?

[Kumite988]

I doubt the fool has a blackbelt. Blackbelts learn respect, he has none. He sure doesn't act like a blackbelt. If he has one he in no one deserves it, I don't care about his skill in JiuJutsu.

[superleeds]

The fella doesn't seem to bright if you ask me...

[longarm25]

some people just think they can get over on anyone

[scottnshelly]

I've seen a similar situation. A family of a mother, father and about 6 kids came into my instructor's class one night to watch. the father was walking with a cane. I noticed how he kept pulling people aside and talking to them. he finally caught me and starting bragging about his martial training in the military. he said that he learned a form of TKD and refused to test for black belt because he would've had to register his hands as weapons! we all kinda laughed at him. his family stayed for a long time and actually excelled. he unfortunatley only critisized them and the rest of the class from the sidelines.

 

everynight he'd have some new crazy story about how he is so skilled with his walking cane and could kill people with his lilttle finger.

 

I guess this type of thing happens a lot.

[thaiboxerken]

I have never been in a situation where I needed to kick my way out of a wet paper bag.

[scottnshelly]

it's really not as hard as people make it out to be. it was a requirement for a belt test at a school i attended.

[thaiboxerken]

You had wet paperbags at your blackbelt test?

[Shorin Ryuu]

You had wet paperbags at your blackbelt test?

 

Yeah. It was a little hard at first, but my instructor realized that I was not giving up, and after the 50th try, I broke through. Afterwards, my instructor told me that it was more so the effort than the actual accomplishment that he was looking for. This motivated me to later start benchpressing tuna fish sandwiches. Well, I had to start out with something lighter, like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at first.

 

It is pretty amusing how many people claim that they are the ultimate fighting machine simply because they are in "the military". Being a military member myself, I always offer to train with them or at least discuss theory and principles, but they always find some excuse to back out...