“It’s nice to meet you. So, what do you do?”
“I teach traditional martial arts and fitness to help people improve their health and safety.”
“Oh, so you do Tae Kwon Do. I did that for a couple months when I was a kid. Hiyaaa!”
“No, we do Traditional Karate-do. It is quite a bit different from Tae Kwon Do.”
“No, it’s the same thing. So, when you are not doing Tae Kwon Do, what do you do for real?”
I really hate it when people think they know what I do better than me. These morons see a couple movies or do a couple lessons at Brand X martial arts school on the corner and think they are Einstein reincarnate when it comes to fighting arts. Too many people only experience the “surface” of an art and don’t have any depth of understanding. Then, thanks to that wonderful ego, they try to sound like a genius and only look like a fool.
No two martial arts or activities are alike. If you don’t know something, you don’t know it. If you think you know something, you still probably don’t know it. It’s okay to say “I don’t know.”
3 comments:
i think that there are a lot of people out there who think they know everything about everything. if they don't know something they act is if they know it.
It is a bunch of BS that everyone thinks that all martial arts are TKD. That's why everyone thinks we are all a bunch of crap because we all get lumped into the same group.
I am surprised. I have done TKD for years and everyone that I meet that has not done marital arts always calls it Karate. Then if I am up to it I spend the next 15 min trying to explain the difference between them. Most of the time there is really no point. If they are not interested in learning something new then you could get out books, charts and long speeches when they walk away they will still call it what ever they started with.
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