Posted by KC Butthamster on April 22, 2003 at 18:22:06:
The Tape
Once, some instructors, exercizing their right for self determination, decided to leave the moo.
After they left, a tape was circulated to the schools. In this tape, these instructors were shown, most at the point of exhaustion,
practicing form. Of course, due to the exhaustion, their form involved some struggling. After all, that was how moo practiced
back in those days- til they dropped.
Text was flashed across the screen inferring that these individuals had not come to a sufficient understanding of their form. No
attempt was made to relate this to their level of experience, nor was there any clips of these instructors doing the form well.
However, following this, there is a clip of Jerry Barfield doing the same forms fresh as a daisy, in a nice uniform untainted by the
sweat of effort. This along with Jerry's deeper understanding of martial arts and things in general due to mnetal and physical development through training made the 'bad example instructors' look even more pathetic. Text is flashed across the screen to suggest that he does have sufficient understanding of his forms. Jerry was
involved in this tape.
This is a classic example of the truth being very funny. It is actually much different than saying my obsession never jumped off of
an 11 story building and floated 'light as a feather', because the fact is, whole schools worth of people saw that tape, and copies are
easily obtained if you truly want them. This action, involving one professional taking part in the appraisal of begginers mistakes,
is actually less likely to be laughed out of court than say, suing Neal for paternity of anything but maybe a butt hamster.
The Prodigy
Okay, there once was a mentally case in the moo, he was considered by the inner circle to be a nice guy but he was losing his mind due to a bad personal life. His name was Alex.
One day, Alex decided that being a moo instructor was not making him a better person, so he just left. This made Joe Jakosalem
and Frank very relieved. See, Joe was tired of Alex, because Alex was so high maintanence. And Frank, well,
Frank was Frank.
So Frank and Joe, they got the ranking members under Alex together and asked what people thought of Alex. Everybody was galad he was gone because he was mentally disturbed.
Everybody.
This amused Joe even more, because not only was Alex so mentally ill,
but now he was the humiliated butt of many jokes.
So Joe and Frank would ask periodically what people thought of Alex, and surreptitiously, during classes and in between these
questioning periods, they would try to help these people get better, for those students, in what several have referred to as the most brutal humiliation KC ever got
in moo history, until just about all of those students left, and the remaining students knew better than to answer with nostalgic
feelings.
So then, Joe and Frank got these people together, and told them that Alex had gone crazy.
Unfortunately...
Alex came back to the area a year later, and seemed as mentally fit as ever. He had gotten transferred to an intermediate care facility for the disturbed nearby. The students began to talk about it a lot
with Joe or Frank, undoubtedly on account of Alex's jealousy, because of his martial arts not being as good and all, especially since
Alex was acting like he had learned some mantis since last they met.
So you see, calling a insane man crazy to face and joking with students hurts the whiners feelings. What is posted is a better example of slander/libel than, say, this story could be misconstrued
as such regarding Alex and his jealousy, because so many of his contemporaries remember that that was exactly how he was about
everything, and so many of their students remember very clearly how Frank and Joe were behaving, and have substantiated the details so
well from a number of sources without even the slightest variation in that tale.
It's really too bad, Alex's life is a complete waste, he just was so jealous that anyone could be better than him, and most
certainly were. As for Frank, well, Frank's Frank.