<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Lori:
Aha! Another gender gap bridged - women are NOT the only ones subject to hormonal surges!
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True enough! But we
do get credit for rebalancing the hormone levels so as not to offend all you stronger female kara-te-kas... riiight?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>On the uke subject - a very significant gender related topic! Perhaps the instructors among us can learn from the feelings on both sides - yes - demonstration of a technique, especially in a seminar type format DOES have more impact when executed on a big burly type - or at least someone who may not be as tall but at least looks or has trained with the demonstrator enough that there is no "confidence" issue... {snippage}
I like the idea of teaching/demonstrating the technique on a woman, or smaller uke, then having the uke re-demonstrate the technique effectively on the biggest baddest guy there... THAT is teaching!
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Ummmm... Gotta confess, it's a variation on an actual event. It was more than gender based, it was also
age based.
This ought to give everyone a good chuckle...
~16 years ago, I had a kids class that I taught. Unlike many of the "Mc"schools, we didn't charge anything extra for kids rank testing. The instructors had already done evaluations and spot testing in class and we decided that we were going to show the parents what their children were learning and how well their little ones had progressed. One 9 year-old girl was cute as a button and as quiet as a mouse, but she took to ju-jitsu moves like a little tiger! When she learned how to manuever someone into a throw, she lit up like a little Christmas tree. Sooooo, when we gave the "open-test"/demo for the parents, I knew where she was really going to shine and when her turn came, we went through technique after technique... I ended by reaching down to grab her. She executed very well and... Ker-Plonk! I ended up on the matt.
Think anyone was impressed with this little girl doing a Sute Tai Otoshi on me... Nope! The father of one of the other students was a State Police Officer, who spoke up (yep, in the middle of the test/demo
) and said, "you just went down for her." Hindsight being 20/20, I probably wouldn't do it if I had it to do over again, but... I stood up and said, "Fine,
you grab her."
This 6'3" officer marches to the front of the room and reaches down (think of the physics here
) to grab this ~3'nothin' little girl and...
Ker-Plonk!
Ends up laying on the matt looking at the ceiling with this little girl saying matter of factly, "I'm supposed to run and call the police now."
I had to feel sorry for the guy, 'cause everyone was cheering and clapping and hollering... Gotta give him credit, he took it in stride and told Kelly she'd make a great cop someday!
I wanted to feel the results of the technique/pain/force so I knew better how to inflict it when necessary (I'm older and wiser now - 