Celebrity Boxing / Untrained Fighters
(Extracted from Aikido-L)

Date:    Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:37:19 -0800
From:    David Monahan-Lesseps
Subject: celebrity boxing / untrained fighters

I was surfing the idiot box last night, and got sucked into Celebrity Boxing.  It exhibited some of the most embarrassing elements of American culture, and I can only hang my head in shame when I admit to watching it (I'll just blame it on my wife), except it had one redeeming quality...  It provided several perfect examples of what untrained fighters look like. During the show I saw people sticking their chins out, and carrying their center of gravity somewhere near their forhead.  Others provided great examples of being psychologically "killed" by turning their centers away from the opponent, one even kept showing the back of her head to her opponent everytime the action got to be too much for her.
Overall, I would say that most of the problems could be boiled down to: poor posture, lack of focused energy, lack of mind/body coordination.  You know -all those things that you train in budo.&  Too bad the Llama Tulku Celebrity was not there to teach them a few lessons.
My 2 cents for today,
David "I'll watch anything when I'm bored" M-L

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Last updated on 13 Sep 2002