Personal training information

Every time some new member starts a thread, people always asked him the following questions:

- Who is your teacher?
- How long have you trained?
- Have you had any street fight experience?
- How many people have you killed?
- ...

If the new member says that he

- doesn't know much, people may look down on his opinion.
- is a bad dudes, people may attack him as self-promotion.

Is this necessary? You thought?

 

I think finding out the training history of people is quite important if you want to discuss aspects of the martial arts. The way you would approach a discussion with someone who has been training in boxing under Freddie Roach for the last 10 years may be different from how you would approach a discussion from someone who had spent six months being trained by Ashida Kim in ninjutsu, or someone who had tried to pick-up Dillman Karate by watching Youtube videos.

Secondly, actual experience is a valid question, particularly if someone is claiming expertise. In MMA the opinion of a person with a winning record over 12 pro fights would (depending on what was being discussed) be worth a lot more than that of someone who hasn't fought. In terms of street violence, the opinion of someone who has been regularly exposed to street violence (possibly as a result of being in a certain profession) can carry more weight than than that of someone who has never encountered violence in a real-life situation.

There is no requirement for anyone to draw back the veil of anonymity, but you would be hard pressed to claim expertise while simultaneously being unwilling to disclose the source of your authority.

 

Also when a new member asks a certain training question, he will receive the following comments:

- You should ask your teacher.
- You should ask your coach.
- You should ask your instructor.
- You should ask your Sensei.
- ...

If he can get answer from his teacher, he won't ask question in the forum.

Again, are those comments proper? Your thought?

 

I asked a general grappling question in a Judo forum. That was exactly the comments that I had received from many people in that forum. I had to tell them that my grappling instructor had passed away 28 years ago. Not everybody has instructor who is still alive.

 

Ask your coach for technical advice and fine-tuning (that's what they are paid to provide). For questions that require a broader perspective it is perfectly appropriate to ask on internet forums. The trick is to judge which questions are better addressed to your coach, and which are better addressed to a internet forum. If you don't have an instructor then you need to get a instructor, unless you are a instructor or a very high level practitioner (in which case you should be getting advice from other coaches).

As an example, a boxer asking how to pivot his lead foot should probably ask his coach first. Doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked here as well, but it is a technique that can be better corrected in person and you are already paying for the advice. On the other hand, if your coach is tall and you are short, and you do not feel that your coach has the necessary understanding to be able to provide you with tactics appropriate for fighting against taller people, then asking questions on forums would be an appropriate way of seeking information.

 

Good questions. I would ask:

1) How many walkers have you killed?
2) How many people?
3) Why?

some other questions that might be useful:

1) What is your name?
2) What is your mission?
3) What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

 

OK this is sort of trolling guys.....

I haven't owned a tv for 10 years and you are throwing in memes from the Walking Dead? THe Holy Grail?

I don't know about YouKnowWho but if you asked me this I would think you were taking the proverbial...

Mushroom? Et Tu Brutu!!

LFD

 

Sorry - was just having some fun there.

I always have thought one purpose of all the questions posed to a new person here was to determine if they were a troll, someone here to sell something, or a legit new person. The answers themselves are important in terms of content, but also in the attitude with which they are answered. Which ties it in to the Walking Dead questions, which IMHO on the show are to separate the true loons from the people only mildly crazy from the world they are in. So the questions are to see if a newbie is a MAP sort of nut, or just a troll sort of nut.

 

If you aren't prepared for Z Day you are already dead to me

 

But which MA is the most useful for the apocolypse?

 

African or European?

 

Let me add in the 3rd "general" subject here.

Whenever someone asks about "home training", he will always get the following comments.

- Training at home will develop bad habit for you.
- You may do weight, flexibility, endurance, ...
- You can't go wrong with heavy bag training.
- You may hurt yourself through heavy bag training.
- You may train partner drills without partner.
- ...

My concern is you just can't go to school to train forever. One day, your teacher will die at old age, you can't just stop your training at home for the rest of your life.

What's Your thought on this?

 

I agree with this statement. My grandmaster, who is the head of Senkotiros International travels the world holding seminars and also training with other masters in an attempt to help improve Senkotiros and expand his own personal knowledge. You never stop learning, sometimes I learn things as I am teaching class from my littlest (yes I just used that, forgive me AP English Lang teacher.) white belt.

 

I've seen this a lot, and to be honest it's annoying to see. The person asking isn't asking his teacher, he's asking you, the MAP community. People who answer questions in this manner are just being lazy.

I also read a thread the other day where a guy clearly stated he couldn't get tuition at the moment due to personal circumstances. One of the first replies he got was one telling him to get tuition.

I think some people here, especially some veteran members, actually could try and be a little less antagonistic. I've even been a victim of antagonistic behaviour myself from a small handful of members and it's just unnecessary. Were all here to learn, not wang measure for whatever reason.

While the majority are generally fairly constructive, those of you who are not should probably take a step back and understand you were probably a little inexperienced, or struggling, etc, yourselves once.

 

No one asked me these questions on my first post.

Baza

 

I think you guys do just fine. I have been afforded protection from you guys in the past. It was one time but only one time it was required. People need to be able to express themselves and it is also true that some new members burst streight in without reading the TOS. Some shout from the rooftops how great they are while others are more realistic.

Mods do as they are required and protect when necessary from my own observations.

Baza