KC Elbows
03-25-2002, 08:33 AM
Went to a small competition this weekend with the rest of my school, just there watching. There were actually a few very good teachers there, and we were hoping they would take part in the master's demonstration. Unfortunately, the ones we were there to see did not.
The masters demo began, and one particular teacher came up and did his demo. I've seen it before, and it is annoying. He demonstrates some chin na on his students, and the chin na is generally valid technique, but his students practically scream every time a lock is done on them, and they tap out for like a minute, but he just keeps going with the technique. Either he ignores his student's safety, or his students are in the habit of showing pain and tapping out before the point where they should. Anyway, I digress.
Now, this is normally all that this guy does for his demos, but this time, he has a student stand there for an iron body demo. He kicks the guy once in the chest, nothing special, then he has the guy squat down and kicks him twice between the legs. HOWEVER, we can see from where we are that the only part of the foot making contact, the very top, is hitting behind the balls. I look at one of my classmates and we speculate on whether he is better off health wise getting hit in the balls over getting hit in that point between the balls and the anus(hui yin?)
Now, I'm ready for the next person to demo, but NOOOOOO, he's on such a friggin roll that he feels that there's one more thing he simply must demo. He has two students attack him, and I'm like "What's he demoing now?" and it doesn't even register that he is doing one of those knock-out touch, Dillman meets Svengali demonstrations, and his students are on the ground and he's rubbing the backs of their necks.
CLASSMATE TO ME: What's that?
ME TO CLASSMATE: That's cr@p.
Some of the other people who demoed were ok, then the advanced open forms began, and the judges did not give anyone under a 9.5. They were harder on the kids than the advanced stylists.
Anyway, I left early and worked out, sparred, and generally felt pretty good about my kung fu.
The masters demo began, and one particular teacher came up and did his demo. I've seen it before, and it is annoying. He demonstrates some chin na on his students, and the chin na is generally valid technique, but his students practically scream every time a lock is done on them, and they tap out for like a minute, but he just keeps going with the technique. Either he ignores his student's safety, or his students are in the habit of showing pain and tapping out before the point where they should. Anyway, I digress.
Now, this is normally all that this guy does for his demos, but this time, he has a student stand there for an iron body demo. He kicks the guy once in the chest, nothing special, then he has the guy squat down and kicks him twice between the legs. HOWEVER, we can see from where we are that the only part of the foot making contact, the very top, is hitting behind the balls. I look at one of my classmates and we speculate on whether he is better off health wise getting hit in the balls over getting hit in that point between the balls and the anus(hui yin?)
Now, I'm ready for the next person to demo, but NOOOOOO, he's on such a friggin roll that he feels that there's one more thing he simply must demo. He has two students attack him, and I'm like "What's he demoing now?" and it doesn't even register that he is doing one of those knock-out touch, Dillman meets Svengali demonstrations, and his students are on the ground and he's rubbing the backs of their necks.
CLASSMATE TO ME: What's that?
ME TO CLASSMATE: That's cr@p.
Some of the other people who demoed were ok, then the advanced open forms began, and the judges did not give anyone under a 9.5. They were harder on the kids than the advanced stylists.
Anyway, I left early and worked out, sparred, and generally felt pretty good about my kung fu.