Dubble email failure
College stuff, I couldn't give my freind here this through email because both are email accounts are having trouble, and the computers at school can't read my save files.
Kevin Snow
English A1
E. Sullivan
10/13/2005
Formal Essay Partner Response: Believing and Doubting
Response to Jeff Woods' Kenpo Karate
A proofreader may help with just about every sentence, but I got the idea well enough.
Believing:
It is always a good idea to know how to defend yourself and others. Though why in particular Kenpo Karate? I'd like to hear something specific, but most of what you said is just any martial arts. Perhaps you can use a broader range of examples than a single knife attack, and maybe arrange a couple into compleat storyies, then foolow up with a "What if..." Type story just a couple scentences afterwords. I would also like to hear some factual examples of someone knowing the karate encountering such conditions. Also, I got the impresion that a single event was being refferenced too often, and a little variaty, even from the same story, would help. On the example you give, calling the man crazy so many times makes it seem overdone, perhaps some other filler can take the place of this, such as his motive, or a more discriptive explenation of the injeries involved, or the way the event unfolded. I think I need just a little more explination on why everyone needs to learn karate than that your freind was attacked.
Also, I would like to hear about how to learn karate. Should I take a class? Could I read a book? Would I have to give up my gym membership to pay for it?
Doubting:
What if the attacker knew karate to, or was an experienced knife fighter? A few of my friends claimed karate was proof against people with knives, and that they knew it. I also convinced each one of them to show me by trying to defend themselves against a plastic sparing knife I had. Not one of them could. I tapped them each twice with the knife, once on the limb they tried to disarm me with, and then on the throat I gave each two tries, and each got to watch the person before them. Each time it was the same, the only thing they managed to hit was the knife's blade. I personally have no martial arts training, and they were all experienced in the styles taught to them in classes.
I would only recommend going unarmed into a knife fight when there is no choice. What I do recommend is upturning tables, toppling chairs and throwing anything at hand, then running, or finding a door you can bar or hold shut from the other side, or finding something long and sturdy like a baseball bat to fend the attacker off with. That should be done wile doing everything you can to attract attention, and bringing help or witnesses to yourself.
Your class seems to be unsafe. You do not need to take chances to become a good martial artist. You can learn how to spar safely, dealing solid painful blows in places that can take it without being permanent or lasting damage, while at the same time learning to defend the places that a hit can be long term disabling. Learning to protect yourself is a good thing, but you shouldn't harm yourself or others doing it. No pain does not mean no gain.
Kevin Snow
English A1
E. Sullivan
10/13/2005
Formal Essay Partner Response: Believing and Doubting
Response to Jeff Woods' Kenpo Karate
A proofreader may help with just about every sentence, but I got the idea well enough.
Believing:
It is always a good idea to know how to defend yourself and others. Though why in particular Kenpo Karate? I'd like to hear something specific, but most of what you said is just any martial arts. Perhaps you can use a broader range of examples than a single knife attack, and maybe arrange a couple into compleat storyies, then foolow up with a "What if..." Type story just a couple scentences afterwords. I would also like to hear some factual examples of someone knowing the karate encountering such conditions. Also, I got the impresion that a single event was being refferenced too often, and a little variaty, even from the same story, would help. On the example you give, calling the man crazy so many times makes it seem overdone, perhaps some other filler can take the place of this, such as his motive, or a more discriptive explenation of the injeries involved, or the way the event unfolded. I think I need just a little more explination on why everyone needs to learn karate than that your freind was attacked.
Also, I would like to hear about how to learn karate. Should I take a class? Could I read a book? Would I have to give up my gym membership to pay for it?
Doubting:
What if the attacker knew karate to, or was an experienced knife fighter? A few of my friends claimed karate was proof against people with knives, and that they knew it. I also convinced each one of them to show me by trying to defend themselves against a plastic sparing knife I had. Not one of them could. I tapped them each twice with the knife, once on the limb they tried to disarm me with, and then on the throat I gave each two tries, and each got to watch the person before them. Each time it was the same, the only thing they managed to hit was the knife's blade. I personally have no martial arts training, and they were all experienced in the styles taught to them in classes.
I would only recommend going unarmed into a knife fight when there is no choice. What I do recommend is upturning tables, toppling chairs and throwing anything at hand, then running, or finding a door you can bar or hold shut from the other side, or finding something long and sturdy like a baseball bat to fend the attacker off with. That should be done wile doing everything you can to attract attention, and bringing help or witnesses to yourself.
Your class seems to be unsafe. You do not need to take chances to become a good martial artist. You can learn how to spar safely, dealing solid painful blows in places that can take it without being permanent or lasting damage, while at the same time learning to defend the places that a hit can be long term disabling. Learning to protect yourself is a good thing, but you shouldn't harm yourself or others doing it. No pain does not mean no gain.