Do you think it is necessary to use the amount of protective gear in classes compared to the older days?
I personally find all the padding to take away from good learning and feeling what it is like to have any physical contact. I also beleive Insurance companies also make it too difficult to get insurance which caused all this extra gear.
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I was trained the old fashion way using cloth pads to keep blood off your hands, a groin protector and mouthpeice. That was it.Its the bloody insurance corporate America making it so hard to train traditionally without looking like a stay puff marshmellow.
I hate the gear they use and as for Kids, they should not be treated differantly just monitered closely at all times and I DO NOT beleive in junior black belts, they do not have the wisdom yet.
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i see what you are saying (and what you are not feeling). that sucks. could you imagine a chariot race with modern insurance? insurance companies are businesses. businesses don't make as much $$$ when they have to pay up. so they really don't want to pay up for something a client volunteered for knowing full well that incidents are likely to expected. yes, you could gain a lot without all that crap. it would be a lot more real and a lot less acting. ooh! join fight club! you get physical contact, brad pitt as your wing man, and learn to make soap with the club name right on top!How do I learn to preform the flips in Taekwondo?
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i hear ya! its a pain in the @$$ trying to spar w/ everything we have to wear!When I started taking Martial Arts, the amount of padding was little to none, it has changed through the years I have seen, but it is needed, the society we live in today is more and more concious about "protection" yes insurance does have to do with it, but also society does. Most parents now are more hesitant to send there children to a place and have them come back beat up, so the protective gear all though it is limiting the martial arts the way you and I studied, it is a needed equipment in martial arts now a days and we have to learn to flow with the times.
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People want to study an ART but are unwilling to have contact. I train becasue I want to be able to protect myself and those I care about, period. I train in combat systems. Belts don't mean a thing. Pads, mma gloves, mouthpiece and cup. They want the belief that they are training in some self-defense art but are unwilling to take the step of training in self-defense. Martial arts have been over ran by kids and people who are looking for a spiritual enlightenment. Pads make everyone feel safe. We wouldn't want anyone to get hit while playing tag.* no, sorry but i was trained wearing no shirt, shorts, and i was barefoot. i had to walk and stand on hot cement for hours. and get kicked and get whipoped by a bullwhip for hours too, you never learn to focus out true pain if you wear a pillow for it all.
both my mentor and i have been against it for years
I find it necessary.
*Little kids shouldn't expose themselves to permanent/ chronic injuries if it can be prevented.
*I don't know about your dojo, but the pads really don't seem
to help too much, and take a little getting used to, for me.
**Headgear seems to be more of a nuisance.
*My dad learned Tae kwon Do in Thailand during the VietNam war.
**About half of his toes are busted and knarled up.
**He's still VERY physically active, but some padding could have made his current life a bit easier to take.
One final word on the subject, anyone who's done any amount of fighting/sparring knows that just one "lucky" shot can radically change everything, so I am in favor of pads during dojo/competition kumite.
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Sound like you have been in wrong gym. That's why many styles go down drain because they wear all stupid gears and give themselve false sense of secure.I've not been wearing very much gears beside gloves, headgear, mouthpiece, cup and shin pads. At my current gym, headgear and shin pads are optional.
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