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Originally posted by Lizard
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There is a lot of cruelty to newbies, especialy if they do a traditional art. Perhaps we should be nicer to people who have just started posting. [/b]
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It depends. I was one of the only few that said TKD had some usefull kicks, was a good style to start MA training at a young age and that real Korean TKD is an accurate depiction of what TKD can be, not the Mc Dojangs.
The cruelty isn't random. Some things in life can be 'faked', some things cannot. If you're on stage for a demonstration of what the tango looks like and you really don't know what you're doing I think the audience will figure it out for themselves.
A demonstration of something purely communicative is more subjective to an audience and sometimes only an acute mind can pickup the difference between fact & fiction.
For example, if someone gives an emotionally compelling seminar to an audience that brick breaking is the best form of self-defense, uses a couple of catch phrases from karate and buzz words from gong fu and at least one of the audience members is an experienced bouncer/BB in judo and another is a police officer with jujitsu training, they will tell you otherwise while the rest of the audience might believe the seminar, go home and try to practice brick breaking.
On the otherhand if someone comes in here with experience in Shotokan karate and walks you through each detailed step of the green belt level form and can do it in Japanese too, and you guys start ragging on him, then you're giving him a hard time despite possesing intricate knowledge of his chosen art.