I just watched a film clip were one student about 17 year old (white belt) gets K.O-ed about 5 time in a row! I don't know which one of them is the bigger idiot, the teacher or the student? The final strike on two of them was a reverse heel kick, to the back of the neck, a village soilder (from Nam) Showed me that kick in 1974, as a quick kill move, so what was all the other stuff for(energy drainage points)?  The whole world is flooded with these people with on class They don't care thing one about there fellow man. It's really sad, Thank's M.G.D. The pitty of it is, he probably will get the humanitarian award of the year for it. how stupid!

Thanks Tom, Idid it too, in the begining.  But I grow up, I am glad you did too. The ego, it's a bummer!

Its funny Tom, When I was Learning Buk Shoalin form a instructor in my town. He had a giant ego And also hated the fact that I studied karate too. He would often try to defeat me to prove to himself that Kung Fu was better than Kara-te. and when he would try he would loss, and that would make him mad and he would try even harder.One day his Master came to our school from China town, to teach us, when the instructor corrected the master in front of all the students! the next thing that happened was seeing some quick movement and seeing the ego of the Instructor smashed as he lay on the ground groining. I looked and secretly gigled inside myself, as the master turn and smiled at me, as if to say, Thank you Leni for your respect. Iv'e seen this happen many time, when the old U.S. ego, asks too many questions of a oriental master, with the sound of correction.

THE FOOLS KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO!

Its Great Too See that You have a Since of Hummer Master Lambert
I have had a Problem with That Very Same Thing, how many times - Well - how about every time
I Almost Always Have To Point It Out, That If You Don't Actually Try And Hit, or Grab, or Shove Me, Then I Can Not Teach You The rub of that is, When your Student Understands that Concept - You Really Have To Keep Him In Your Peripheral, Cause The Next Time, He Will Try And Take Your Head Off Ha, Ha, He, He In my Humble opinion, its the "Intent" of the Uke - He does not want to hit his Sensei - Not his Falt, its the Respect Thing I gess, that we are going to have too just remind them of Reality, what a Concept

If I'm going to demo - A Waza, in defense of a Grabbing Attack, and if this is after i have explained to attack with intent I have to watch it, because what i like to do is go over the body movements at a slow pace at first But, what Happens is the Uke will Grab ahold of me with street intent - forgetting that the first time he is supposed to have restraint Its a ever ending problem

Now, this is what it is All About - Sharing idea's, learning New Things
Thank You for the (Ten Strike Idea)

Question; Have you ever had to just let someone, like take a break from coming to class, because it was apparent they were not practicing, and not doing their home work I had too, and it was real hard to do   Here are some of the reasons why i felt that i had too just let him go - He started to not come to class on a regular bases - he would miss class more and more, also There is a Kata (protect the temple) that he was working on for his "Sandan" - I would have to play catch-up, because he was not practicing the kata at home, and he was soposed to be studding more of our internal stuff, like memorizing what Damage is caused, and the antidotes for the pressure point striking. It looked like he was just loosing interest, He, seemed to be overwhelmed, but he didn't know how to tell me, "i don't know" When this starts to happen, i always take it to heart, like did i do something wrong for him too lose the discipline ect,.

Tom, I find that, different life style problem come up with most students. Like when the high school guys get there first girl friend. they may bring her in to see him do his stuff. Somtime later, they stat to slowly drift away, or when they find a girl and get married, or the first baby comes. Why?
Because they sometimes come because they want to learn just a little bit, and sometimes because they have time on there hands. some come for exercise maybe to get away from it all and so on. When I started out training back in 1962, I didn't know that I would be here writing articles about pressure points at this old age! We all thing at the start of your training, we will become Bruce Lee or something like that. But with some, other things we come to love slowly take first place and the training takes second then third, then fouth then fifth place till there is no place left for it. The few that stay training for the greater part of there life, just love it! Most people would rather party than train hard, so in life, they can't become Bruce Lee's, or anything special. They settle for normal, super natural takes lots of time and work and thought. We all wish we could some day be super natural and many people have a grand EGO and thing unrealistically that they are! Tom think about it, how many time have you met someone ( the hot shot) That knew it all, Who talked and talked and talked about his instructor and how good he is or was. Like he had it all! This used to happen over and over to me.
 Here's a fun story, I think I tolled you that after work, I would take time out, to have a coffee and read, every day at a local coffee shop. I met a lot of charactors at this place, one of them, a guy who Would bug me every day about how great he was and that his instructor was so great and so on, you know the type. One day, he started his speach once again and started to get pushy, I was starting to get a little pissed but before I did, I said lets have a little test. I'm going to put my finger up your nose, lets see if you can (block) stop me before I do! ready put your hands up nw, ready, oh you weren't ready, we'll try again, oppps get ready now opps, didn't your instructor teach you how to block. After the third time Of putting my finger up his nose, he got the picture. The nexted day I was surprized when he came in to the coffee shop with dinner for me and a, Im sorry. EGO! it's a Bitch, If you've got one It will beat you like a rented mule till you get rit of it. Most come to feed there ego and that's the wrong foundation, It alway causes men to fall short of realistic goals. Thats why they leave. But if you can train just one, good one, in a life time, it's worth it. and look at all the free practice partners you get!