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 22/04/2008, 19:53
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Bluebells
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Well a memory springs to mind of younger days when my weight training partner brought up the subject of his son, a skinny 9 year old lad with a lisp and problems of remorseless bullying at school. He had become totally withdrawn and firghtened of his own shadow and scared sh--less of going to school. My pal asked me too train the lad for a while including some junior boxing stuff, well six months into this, the young man had become a different person in my and his families eyes and proud as punch we all were when his dad got a call from school asking him to attend as his lad had knocked out the school bully and he was being asked to explain himself. Still know the lad and his family to this day and all are well adjusted NORMAL human beings. Not to everyone's taste I guess but for him a release from the constant difficulty he faced in those times.
A walk in a bluebell wood is heaven on earth
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22/04/2008, 20:39
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Hoddy
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I suspect that some of the people commenting here haven't actually seen the trailer for this programme; it was extremely unpleasant.
Most of us who've spent a lifetime in teaching are familiar with boxing and martial arts training and even though we may not like it, acknowledge that it's done in a very disciplined way. What was shown on the trailer bore little resemblance to what I know of martial arts.
Hoddy
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22/04/2008, 22:00
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Limousin Lass
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23/04/2008, 8:10
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Gluestick
 
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![Angry [:@]](/cs/images/emotions/angry.gif)
Re: Kiddies fighting
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 Hoddy wrote: | | I suspect that some of the people commenting here haven't actually seen the trailer for this programme; it was extremely unpleasant. Most of us who've spent a lifetime in teaching are familiar with boxing and martial arts training and even though we may not like it, acknowledge that it's done in a very disciplined way. What was shown on the trailer bore little resemblance to what I know of martial arts. Hoddy |
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Quite agree, Hoddy.
Some years ago, an acquaintance (through motorsport) turned out to be a quite senior Met officer and one of the highest UK examiners of the then quite rare martial art, popularly known as King Fu (more correctly, as he informed me, Wushu).
Over coffee one day, he recounted how two nights before, he was examining at a local centre for belt upgrades and how one young lad was on the mat and fighting for his new belt against a much more experienced chap. The young guy missed a block and was accidently kicked hard between the legs!
Now the chaps herein will empathise: the lad's instant and instinctive reaction was to cover his mouth and run for the loo to throw up. As he was about to leave the mat, the examiner shouted to remind him of something important: the lad thought for a tick and promptly bowed to his opponent and the examiner and then left the mat.
He received his new belt.
It was explained to me that since any form of martial art is about self-discipline and mind over matter, by managing to conquer such a powerful automatic physiological reaction and observe discipline and protocol, the young man well deserved the belt.
A world of difference to thuggish mentally challenged parents forcing 5 year old girls into a ring to fight for the parent's ego.
I stick to what I said earlier: sterilise 'em!
They are scum and totally unfitted to live in any decent society.
"Yes, but that apart, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?"
Gluestick
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24/04/2008, 18:38
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Pads
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![Woot! [:-))]](/cs/images/emotions/w00t.gif) ![Smile [:)]](/cs/images/emotions/smile.gif) Your Bad !!
Dirty Tom =^..^=
Where ever I lay my paw thats my home
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24/04/2008, 21:22
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Gluestick
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Re: Kiddies fighting
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Well, I watched ten minutes of the programme and reached an easy conclusion. No more could I stomach.
The parents were precisely as suspected: mentally challenged, shall we say.
The mother, if one can use that term rather loosely, and in a biological as against pastoral sense, whose 8 year old son had already knocked out another competitor and who revelled in the name Thai (which, as if one needed any further proof of parental mental retardation, ought to be more than sufficient!) recounted the absolute thrill of knocking out other competitors when she herself was fighting, some years before.
Perhaps one needs to go no further in seeking an explanation for her obvious cretinous tendencies...............
I also found the East London lady - again, a rather loose term - conformed rather eerily, to expected type: the statutory Staffy; the young out of control thug of a son, quite obviously misrepresenting fact, already equipped with his ear ring.
As I stated before: scum; sterilisation.
A sad reflection upon what British society has degenerated to.
I am further ashamed to be considered British.
"Yes, but that apart, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?"
Gluestick
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