Challenges
I think challenges are a good thing, too. It's kind of like an underground method of testing a school, making sure it's a good one. I've only seen one challenge in a martial arts school. I was studying JKD at the time and visiting another local JKD school. Some jock(big football player looking guy) came in and was watching the class, smirking. I was right near them, so I could hear bits of the conversation. The instructor went up to the guy and made some friendly conversation. Then the jock said something about how what the people in the class were doing didn't look very effective. The instructor just kinda ignored it and just stood there watching the class. Then the jock guy goes "Hey, what would you do if I did this?" several times, throwing out several punches and trying to slap the instructor's body. The JKD instructor just grabbed the guy's arm, locked him up, and threw him face first on the ground, and started yelling at him "You want a piece of me? You want a piece of me?" It was crazy, we stopped class to watch it. Then he let the guy up and the guy just looked at him funny and walked out in a hurry. The instructor told us to get back to work. I liked the instructor's technique, but I didn't like his attitude, so, that was the first and last time I went to that school.
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"Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and
said 'Hey, hows it going?'. So I grabbed his arm and twisted
it up behind his head and said 'Now whose asking the questions?'" - Jack Handey
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