marlon
Master Black Belt
IIRC,you asked me if I can take someone who has never had a single martial arts class and teach them to fight in 1 hour.The answer is YES.So can you in all likelihood.However,can I turn that person into a versatile martial artist in one hour? Hell no.They won't be able to flow from weapons to ground to back again with multiple options in one hour.They can in one week.One hour? Nope. Will they have SOME facility with weapons to the ground in one hour? YEP.
I have had a student come in from off the street and tell me that he and his friend are going to get jumped by bullies after school within 3 days. I trained them intensively then the day of the fight I accompanied them to school,spoke to the Vice Principal and made sure that TPB at school kept the bullies away that day.That weekend the bullies tried to jump the boys' girlfriends not 150 meters from my school and I witnessed the kids I trained (9th graders) tear off in the anal region of the 10th and 11th grade bullies pestering them. I stopped it when one of my boys started stomping on a downed bully and the other kid downed his opponent with a sweet ridgehand to the gonads.My enrollment doubled within a week,lolol.
The fastest turnaround I posted for a student was 45 minutes.Kid's mother came in and pled with me to train her son.She had no money,but she mentioned the name of one of the neighborhood bullies belonging to a neighborhood gang (Baby Insane Crips) and I was all for training him. 45 minutes and one jab and MT shin kick later,the bully was stretched out on the concrete insensate.I didn't teach him too much Kenpo because he would do hospital level damage to this (bigger meaner) bully because the smaller kid I was training had legit anger and beef with the bully (who'd taken several cherished toys,a few lil dollars and a NINTENDO DSI from the kid I was teaching) and I shudder to think what he would have done with a good eye poke,handsword, Raining Claw,and/or a 5 Swords added to the infamous Kenpo groin kick.Besides,K.I.S.S. in this situation most especially,right?
As for training a newb from zero to hero and filming it? Hmmm...thinking about it...
that i could probably do, but that is not a regular class situation or a regular student off the street.
really give some thought to the video.
i posted a comment on your alternating maces post
be well
Marlon