Martial arts instructors condemn bully bashing

funny... after watching the Karate Kid for the first time in well over 15 years, I thought... the Cobra Kai and John Kreese aren't really all that bad... LaRusso was a little punk hahaha

The toughest man I've ever met in my whole life has a 6th degree black belt in karate and has won gold medals for various Alberta and Canadian teams over the last 20 years, and he says that the emphasis of "learning to fight so you don't have to fight" is 100% absolutely true. When you get martial arts training you enter into a new realm of personal lethality and need to have the mental discipline to contain your emotions. If this woman's kid nails the bully and severely hurts him using advanced martial arts then all she's done will be to have created a human weapon and turned him loose on the streets. And it's almost certain with that sort of abysmally shitty parental advice she's created a new mega-bully of her own who isn't going to be content with just pounding on the one bully who's currently bothering him. With her shitty attitude she's practically guaranteed that her kid is going to use his skills on someone and end up getting arrested and end up in prison on some serious assault and battery charges. Not to mention that if her boy hasn't gained some emotional self-control then someone's going to end up either in the hospital or even dead at his hands.

Mother-of-the-fucking-year candidate right here. She just should have given the kid a handgun instead and told him to go pretend that the people on the street were just like the ones in videogames. Stupid irresponsible bitch.

I guess that he doesn't need to attack the bully or seek vengence, but just to defend himself if bullied. There's a huge difference.

""Iron Fist Tae Kwon Do in Winnipeg. "That's a misconception people have because that's what they see in the movies.""

If you think it is mind over matter than he should have named his school Iron Mind rather than Iron Fist.

Yes but defend himself to the point of getting safe. Knocking the guy down and and continuing to punch and kick the snot out of him moves from self defense to aggravated assault /excessive force etc. and ends up being not much better than attacking the guy first.

The best MA instructor I had said your best defense is to get out of or handle a situation without fighting, even if that means running away. Sounds cowardly but if you can run away and avoid having to fight and take the chance you won't win then its the best option. Knowing how to fight tilts the odds you will win but does not guarantee it. Always take the option that give you the best odds, think with your head not your manhood!

If this kid is going to a respectable MA school the instructor will give the mom her money back and kick the kid out. The last thing you want are thugs learning how to be better thugs, or in this case to be creating thugs!

If you're mad enough to hit someone, hit him with something hard. Mom should have just bought the kid a baseball bat.

Run. It gets you away before the fight happens. Otherwise, no matter how tough you are, you can only take one opponent with any certainty. His buddies will get you while you are busy. Or will shoot you. Or run you over.

When I did Martial Arts, it was about an hour and a half of physical training and such and maybe 15-30 minutes in lectures about non-aggressive behaviour and avoiding dangerous confrontations. Most schools have been preaching a similar thing for the past forty or fifty years, and the big thing lately has been to clear up the misconception that getting that belt on your body isn't going to make you the next karate kid.

I have my old green belt still, stopped doing it when I moved and really wish I had stuck with it -- was a great workout for the body.

I have the same background and the same belt colour too, it was a great
workout and you are entirely correct about the lecture on non aggressive behavior. The most intelligent and best defense is to avoid confrontation. The Karate kid stuff is Hollywood BS, use your head first.