Friday nights are "open mat" nights at our dojo. It's nice to have a more laid-back time to just focus on whatever you want to focus on. I got to work with an experienced student who walked me through 3rd kyu.
I was kind of surprised; I didn't feel as dumb as I thought I would, considering I haven't been around faithfully for about two months or so.
Anyways, going through nights like these remind me of the greatness and beauty of student cooperation. It was an encouraging thing to have a fellow student point out flaws, give advice, and throw in a compliment here and there. Students, after all, make up most of the population in a dojo, and it is wonderful to see them help each other out. I think that in doing so, the help out the instructors in taking a tiny bit of the load off the teaching work. And, ultimately, it helps the student extending the information, because it forces them to really look at their own technique and find out what needs fixing.
Interestingly enough, things turned around and I ended helping another student with some bokken (I. Love. Bokken.) kata. Tonight's class was quite an interesting illustration of a "full circle".
-gHopper
Friday, February 19, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
A woman's place in grace
I was watching some women MMA on youtube a few minutes ago. Let me tell you something--it is NOT pretty. There is nothing attractive with two women in just sports bras and shorts beating the juice out of each other.
Being a tomboy myself, I know where they're coming from. Some girls love to fight and scrap. I'm one of them. But there comes a point where a woman needs to be a woman. Women were meant to love, nurture, and defend, not fight in front of thousands to show off their mad skills. We have a specific role--and it's a fact of life we've got to deal with.
I think in this day and age we have seen another surge of the movement that probably started shortly after WWII. Women "stand up for themselves" and rebel from the "weaker sex" stereotype. I think this is mostly unnecessary--and wrong.
We have a God-given place of our own. He provides a standard in 1 Peter 3:1-6, the key being verse 4:
A woman shines the most in her place of quiet grace, meekness, and submission.
Being a tomboy myself, I know where they're coming from. Some girls love to fight and scrap. I'm one of them. But there comes a point where a woman needs to be a woman. Women were meant to love, nurture, and defend, not fight in front of thousands to show off their mad skills. We have a specific role--and it's a fact of life we've got to deal with.
I think in this day and age we have seen another surge of the movement that probably started shortly after WWII. Women "stand up for themselves" and rebel from the "weaker sex" stereotype. I think this is mostly unnecessary--and wrong.
We have a God-given place of our own. He provides a standard in 1 Peter 3:1-6, the key being verse 4:
"...rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God."
A woman shines the most in her place of quiet grace, meekness, and submission.
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