Quote:
Rich Hobbs wrote:
Watching my friend's baby crawl around the other day it occurred to me that they would never win an olympic gold medal sprint using those methods; I immediately insisted that my friend put running shoes on his child and send them out to the nearest running track at dawn every day.
I never realised how much of an imbecile my friend was until they replied that their child was going to learn to walk before trying to apply their ambulatory skills in a more serious and advanced setting.
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True.
The problem is: that moment of martial "adulthood", in a few dojos, seem to arrive...
never. And this not because the pupils (or the "infants") are not ready yet, but because we have the strong impression, at times, that it is that very same goal that is not only never pursued, but
even discouraged and poscribed.
This is why we are exposed to this type of accusations
I am trying to understand
why we are accused of this so insistently, without extracting too many convenient
excuses or
justifications from my quiver (to be clear: not implying by this that you would have been doing that! I am just trying to convey what I am trying to elaborate here: seeing the part of
truth in the accusation)