Originally Posted by
YiLiQuan1
Then why do you study martial arts? It seems that your 10 - 15 years of training has been wasted if you can't feel confident in your ability to at least hold your own, if not win outright. One man, based on size and weight alone, most likely untrained, and you can't feel that you would be capable of defending yourself... Speaks volumes of the training you've received from your esteemed Chinese masters, as well as volumes on their ability to fight as well...
You train for only an hour or so a day, for 10 - 15 years (off and on). That's not training, that's a hobby. It's no wonder you've never developed any real skill.
No, you said you were able to stop the fight by talking. That implies involved, active participation in the event. You didn't do that. You stood by, observing your own encounter almost as if a removed third party, and you hoped by not speaking up that your assailant wouldn't get angered and do you bodily harm. That's amazing weakness, that you couldn't even take an active role by engaging him in conversation about why he felt the way he felt... Instead, you just rolled up in a figurative ball and hoped the big, bad man would go away. You buried your head in the sand. The reality is that you're desperately lucky. My entire point was that if someone was really intent on doing you harm, your "talking" wouldn't stop that at all... In this case, you didn't even talk. You stood still, nodded occasionally, and prayed for mercy.
Um, no... What it means when everone else doesn't believe you is that there's every possibility you are the one that's wrong. Their not believing you does not, most assuredly, mean you are "better" than everyone.
Okay, then tell me more about myself... Describe me with your psychic skills.
Again, please use your psychic abilities to describe me, my training, my art, my teacher. Go ahead... I'll enjoy this, I'm sure.
You "know" me? I think not. Please, apply your "psychic" abilities and ascertain more about me...
Perhaps he was glad that he was able to stop a criminal and help society in a greater context through having done so.
Or perhaps it showed your inability to grasp a larger picture. Who was the "loser?" The cop for doing his duty in the least dangerous way (he tripped him... He could have shot him, tackled him, pushed him into the street, etc., all far more injurious than simply tripping him), or the criminal?