In my life ive faced people that were very skilled in kung fu, ninjutsu, and even jkd ...and they were fat.
This is 1 rule everyone that does any type of martial arts should know
- when facing any 1 u should never under estimate your opponent nor your teacher, sensei, or wut ever u call him/her.
just like others ive seen people that were twice my size have skill, speed, and power.im fat but others know that u shoudnt think that is my weak point. Being fat sometimes cant be helped.
But usually, it
can be helped. the cause of weight gain is not a mystery and weight loss/prevention of weight gain is not rocket science. Nor do the vast majority of overweight people overweight due to medical conditions.
Most 'suffer' from modern daily life, which has become increasingly sedentary as tasks which were once manual have become automated or can be performed while seated. Case in point; the basic act of answering the phone. When I was a kid, there was a phone upstairs and a phone downstairs. Each had a handset that was hardwired to the base. If the phone rang and I wasn't in the same room, I had to get up and walk if I wanted to answer it. Now, the cordless or a cell phone is handy in all homes. With the decline of print media, there are many who get their news from the web. That eliminates getting up and going to get the paper from either the doorstep or the box.
Modern society changed very rapidly over the past thirty years, and so to has the ratio of availablilty of healthy foods vs. unhealthy foods. When I was growing up, you simply had to not over-do it and stay away from obvious junk food. Now, the junk is pervasive, and often masquerading as foods that are thought of as healthy.
All of this makes watching one's weight trickier than it was thirty years ago.
Thus, one may be 'fat' without being a glutton, lazy, or any of the other stereotypes that I have seen leveled against overweight people.
The the question of what is meant by "fat" needs to be addressed; there is a huge difference between being twenty pounds overweight and being sixty pounds overweight. Or one hundred or more pound overweight.
So yes, i would go under a fat teacher because he will more than likely go beyond what u expect of him.
Since I don't base an instructor's ability to teach on what they look like, no they won't go beyond what I expect of them based on their appearance; I have no expectations based upon appearance. Short, tall, thin, fat, man, woman, I don't care.
I select my instructors based mainly on three things:
1. their ability to reasonably do what they are teaching correctly
If you are teaching taekwondo or Shotokan and cannot do a basic turning kick correctly, that is a problem. If the instructor has an effective way of addressing that problem, it can be overcome... but if you have allowed yourself to get to a point where you cannot do one of the most basic techniques of your art
correctly, then you should take some time away from teaching and address your basic training issues. Because chances are, it isn't your weight that is preventing you from correctly performing the kick.
I realize that a guy who's lost limbs due to injury or has either severe arthritis or has suffered some debilitating injury may not be able to do such a technique at all and will need to overcome that challenge in some way. That is not what I am talking about.
Even if you cannot kick at head level any longer, you should be able to execute the basics of the kick correctly.
2. their ability to instruct
The ability to teach others is unrelated to one's physical condition, and barring the inability to demonstrate foundational techniques (which can be overcome), conditioning is unrelated to teaching ability. Some of the finest technicians cannot effectively impart their skills to a beginning student. It could be a lack of patience. It could be an inability to effectively communicate. Or an inability to translate what they do into a lesson.
3. their teaching style.
This is more subjective, as a teaching style may be very effective for one type of student and a disaster for another. So you could have one and two in place, but number three is whether or not the instructor is right for
you.
