A long time ago, when I was living in the same town as my good friend DC and he was teaching me stick fighting, he gave me this cartoon. Probably gave it to me one day after my brain got full of new info, locked up, and got me smacked in the head (I have a killer "block punches with my face" defense).
Anyway, I have been doing muay Thai for 10 years now (but had only 1 ring fight in all those years, back when I was young enough to take it!), and I still block punches with my face. Yeesh. At least it is only in sparring and I have headgear on. But as I get older (and slower) I am starting to get back into sticks and various other weapons arts, not so much for the "martial," but as I mellow out with age, the "art" side of things. Siniwali drills, for example, are beautiful to watch but even better to be doing--kinda like moving Zen--and, if you lose focus, you could get a nice smack in the head or hand. But I still want to go to Thailand one day to train (hear that Will?!?).
I was thinking of all this cause DC sent this link to me not long ago: Karate lessons give child self-confidence to quit karate.
Someone at CNN gets it. :-)
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