Do you want a ridiculous answer to your ridiculous question?
Sure, why not? But I asked seven questions, so perhaps seven ridiculous answers would be in order?
While many of those things are not practiced, they are pointed out. We do Kenpo, we work on controlling our opponent in a confrontation so that we eliminate their ability to eye gouge, bite, strike our throats, kick us in the nuts in any confrontation. I do not wear a cup unless we are doing drills that I have to allow my partner to strike my groin.. I do not spar with a cup.. We do recommend our students do it, and I can not remember any tournament that allowed the option to not wear one.
Okay...
Unless I missed the point of the kenpo forum, that this was posted into, then I have to say my answer was from a kenpo viewpoint.. at least the American Kenpo I study. Other arts might have different answers... I am giving the answer from a Kenpo viewpoint, not Tae Kwon Do, or another art.
Being that we are in a Kenpo forum, I would have hoped that you would give you interpretation of a kenpo answer. In fact, everyone here gave an answer from a kenpo stand point, even the kenpoka who answered with levity. So, can you show me where anyone said otherwise? Furthermore, will Kara-Ho give the same answer as EPAK? or as SKK? I doubt it. Each system of Kenpo has different approaches to everything, to me that is the beauty of it. There is no black and white answer. Not even in Kenpo. Heck, not even in EPAK, because it is all relative to the practitioner and what they bring to the table.
I never said anything about other schools being lesser schools or dojos.. once again a paranoid person makes assumptions about something instead of asking questions so they feel superior, or so they can demean the person they are talking to. Get a grip on reality pal....
And I'm sure that it's your interpretation of reality that you want me to grip onto... :wink: I asked questions, how did they demean you? However, you demean me by labels (such as paranoid) and by implication: unrealistic (because I don't have that grip you seem to want me to have) and ridiculous (because, in your opinion, I ask ridiculous things).
It's cool, I'm a big boy and don't take it personally, but in the future, it will help your argument to drop the
ad hominem elements.
sure we point spar, sure we do touch only sparring drills.... we do light contact sparring drills.. and we do full contact sparring drills... we do random attacker drills, and we do drills where the "bad guys" have hidden weapons, including clubs, knifes and guns... fake of course..we do techniques and work on our abilities to manipulate our opponents body to control them so they are unable to do the things you describe... is it fullproof? Of course not, nobody except those dedicating their full time to the study will ever come close to perfecting kenpo, and I have yet to see anyone who has perfected it even spending full time... but thats the goal.. to defend onesself in a real confrontation, against whatever possible scenario.. Choosing to run everytime is a bad choice as a first go to choice.. I never said its not a choice, just that it can be an issue in a real encounter if any one of several scenarios happen to be true.
This is what I was looking for. Thank you.
I can appreciate the humor.. but I thought the question was a serious one, from someone wanting a serious response.. land of the lost was funny... Will was funny... the comment was funny... Never said it wasn't... I just gave a realistic answer... whats so wrong with that?
I never said you didn't appreciate it, nor did I ever imply you didn't. Likewise, I never speculated or implied anything as to how funny you found anything about anything.
I never even criticized or asked questions about your answer to the OP. I asked questions about something you said in response to me pointing out that Manny's question related to "in the dojo." Clearly, that provoked you, and that's fine. But let's hang me for things I actually said and did, not the other disagreements you may or may not have with other posters.
So to be clear, my questions had nothing to do with your initial response to the OP, how funny you thought anything was, if you can appreciate anything, or as to weather or not kenpo or non kenpo answers were given. They had everything to do with your response, which I quoted before asking. Nothing more, nothing less.
