The Karate Kid: Fact or Fiction
Self-Defense | Written By: Scott Mulhollen
Movies like the Karate Kid are a gold mine for
Martial Art
schools. It seems when a movie like this comes out, enrollment goes up
and the
school becomes more financially sound. On a business aspect this is
really good
but what about the training side of it?
When speaking with potential
students,
many children believe they themselves will be like the Karate Kid and
thus want
to learn the many moves the young hero demonstrated in the movie.
What
they fail
to realize is unlike what the film shows, it takes more than a few weeks
to
master those techniques let alone be able to successfully pull them off.
Kids
are very susceptible to what they see and parents eventually get sucked
into a
pre-paid program. However soon the dazzle of the school, uniform, and Instructor wear
off when the young student realizes what kind of training and sacrifice
are
required to actually become skilled in those particular techniques and
thus no
longer want to continue. The parent ends up forcing their child to attend the paid lessons and the whole experience becomes very frustrating.
The Karate Kid is a nice movie explaining about how
bullying
is wrong and that training on how to defend ones self is important in today's
society. But that is as far as it goes. For a practical approach in
defense, let
Dynamic Self Defense be your source.