--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The less rules the better for evaluating styles. Otherwise you can > gain a false sense of power like the guy in this hilarious video: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=gEDaCIDvj6I&feature=related
Easiest five grand in the history of sport. :-) I've seen a few examples of this sort of thing, the ignominious defeat of "Jaw Jitsu" (thanks for that term, BTW) by someone who isn't baffled by bullshit. At one of the karate contests I participated in (although not terribly successfully) as a college student, Bruce Lee showed up. Not to compete, but to challenge the heads of each of the schools to duke it out with him in the alley behind the auditorium to see which style was *really* the best. No one took him up on it that day, but I hear a few did over the years, usually to their distress. As you say, Bruce was used to real fighting and getting hit, and they weren't. I particularly liked the part of the video where the "master" is repelling one of his own students by hurling blasts of ki at him. The Rama guy used to do that with his students who had black belts as well. It always looked fake to me, so one day I asked him to hit me with a blast of this myster- ious energy. He did, and still being a partaker of the Kool-Aid at the time I pretended it had some effect, but in reality I felt nothing. I suspect that's what's going on with the student in the video; he's protecting his *belief* that his teacher is the Biggest Badass by moodmaking that he has the ability to zap him without even touching him. For those who wonder what all this stuff has to do with spiritual development, I honestly think that my experience in the martial arts helped me later on when evaluating spiritual teachers who tried to run the "Jaw Jivan Mukti" number. It's one thing to talk the talk, but quite another to walk the walk.
