Posted by Who cares on July 09, 2003 at 16:08:09:
In Reply to: Re: You....a judge? - YES! posted by Nick on July 09, 2003 at 05:42:09:
Nick,
I have trained for quite some time now. I am not a national. I've trained so hard that I have collapsed many times, and I can not thank my instructors enough for the benifits that kind of training gives you.
That was then, this is now. Your memory of training is very intense. I understand that.
I personally know one of Russell Johnsens' former roommates at the time of his stupidity.
The reason he had his problem was from his job, opperating a parking lot painting machine for 8 hrs a day. That viberated very intensly, which caused damage to his arms. He then had a push-up contest with his roomates and a couple other instructors. That was the causes of his problem.
Well you must have been getting some benifits from training. What made you stick around so long, the challenge?
You say Grandmaster this Grandmaster that. How much were you directly under Grandmaster? Did you here words come out of his mouth? How do you know what Grandmaster said directly? What you were hearing from instrctors was what they interpreted from what Grandmaster and higher belts had explained. Instructors made mistakes intrerpreting the knowledge being passed.
If you were afraid of you instructor why didn't you just quit? It would have been alot easier, right? The challenge was just to great to pass up though. Thats why you payed the big bucks. You knew that everytime you walked in that door an instrucor would give you no quarter. You would be challenged, and be expected to accomlish things that were above your ability. You would constantly be pushed beyond your normal will to improve.
No idiot would go to a school and recieve the treatment that you say you endured, all for nothing. You must have gotten some benifits, in exchange for all the fear, abuse, and finacial shafting?
I think that you just can't find another challenge like the one you found in school. Well now you just chanllenge you self in a negative way by trying to tear down and devalue the challenges and accomplishments of the hard working men and women in schools today.
Nice challenge......?
Cya,
Dr.Who