09/01/2024
Personal Note:
A long time ago, one of my instructors made a remark that has resonated with me for two decades. I am trying to remember the context exactly, but he had paired the class up, one with gloves, the other with focus mitts, and we were trading off every 5 min. Someone got injured; they had been hit by accident in the side of the face instead of the mitt. One of the other students remarked, "Well, that's what you get when you don't flow the pads with the striker." I understood what he meant; you always meet the hits with the pads part way, and though it is true, they said it with such a lack of sympathy, I could tell our Khru was bothered by it; he said, "In Martial Arts, it is really easy to hurt people, maybe you should try to heal people as well.
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A long time ago, one of my instructors made a remark that has resonated with me for two decades. I am trying to remember the context exactly, but he had paired the class up, one with gloves, the other with focus mitts, and we were trading off every 5 min. Someone got injured; they had been hit by ac...