What a horrible sight!

May 20th, 2006 at 19:03 · Filed Under Critiques, Karate 

I visited a friend at his home at Masjid Tanah last night. My friend is a black belt sandan and he teaches karate every Saturday night. There was another coach whom I knew. We were all in the same dojo once upon a time before I crossed over to the truth.

There were about 20-30 students of ages ranging 5 to 45 years old. Mostly kids. The class began with a shout from the other instructor trying to discipline the kids with the help of my friend’s wife. She was wielding a thick folded newspaper at those innocent and playful kids. Finally, the class got into formation and the instructor began the training session with seiza and rei.

During the warming up, this instructor, a 70kg male in his late twenties, suddenly climbed onto a boy about thirteen to fifteen of age. This boy was standing in kibadachi. With his gigantic weight crushing onto both thigh of this boy, immediately, the boy collapsed onto the ground together with the instructor. Kids started to laugh and the worst thing was that some parents began to laugh too. This instructor had made himself a fool. This was the stupidest act I’d ever seen in my life! How could he, a 70kg male, stand onto a 20-35kg boy? And this boy was still a white belt! Fortune favored him. The boy stood up again unhurt.

I observed the coaching and I felt sad about karate in Melaka. The instructor himself was sub-standard. Many times, he wielded his nanchaku trying to scare the kids if they did not discipline themselves enough. And the parents thought that was karate discipline! Oh… my god! What stupid discipline he was instilling in these innocent and pure kids?

Despite all these non-sense coaching, ignorant parents still sent their children to that karate class. These parents knew nothing about karate, needless to say, these children knew about karate. But the saddest part is that the karate instructors, including my friend, are ignorant fools.

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  • Anonymous on September 9th, 2006 14:32 1

    yo pal, u rite…total no respect for the ancient art.

    well, two ways u could use that, 1 u it for practice. 2. use it for paddi dehusking.

    no go for throwing around to scare the kids.hahaha

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