I let my passion show lightly for an instant....

[MPRTwice]

...and this here:



, did not even come remotely close to what that felt like. My passion was explosively strong, even with that light amount shown.

I could do a whole anaylsis on this;

There is this concept of being emotionless, where one acts like a static robot and does not feel anger, sadness, or happiness. You see this in kata.

But patterns are explosive, passionate, and we are told to feel our emotions, yet control them. _That_ is what emotional control means.

So today, I let my passion show a light form of itself for a brief moment; a flare-up to many.

We as human beings are meant to feel anger, sadness, and happiness, and today, I felt that passion so strongly, it left a group speechless.

Feel your emotions, and control them.

 

[MPRTwice]

I am a dork, but when I get serious, it surprises people and leaves them speechless.

I made a statement of the passion of teaching tonight; what it means to be passionate about giving others a future, and not merely a career.

 

[sexually_inactive]

 

[MPRTwice]

Yeah, if I don't watch myself, I might pop like that.



“Let your anger be as a monkey in a piñata, hiding with the candy, hoping the kids don’t break through with the stick.”

 

[MPRTwice]

"Evidence regarding the personality of 1960s Republic of Korea (ROK) soldiers, particularly those deployed during the Vietnam War, suggests that while they were capable of rapid behavioral shifts, these were typically driven by intense military discipline and trauma rather than innate personality traits."

So that's why I can flare up so easily and then immediately retract to a calm state; that makes sense now.

It's a trait of 1960's South Korean Troops.

Their leader was like a friendly grandpa when he sparred me, until he would flare up and drop me like a sack of bricks. Then he would go instantly back to being calm.

From the outside perspective, this looks like bipolar disorder, but this is actually how the training is maximized. Not one moment of emotion wasted or used improperly. Flare-up when sparring, or for protecting the weak, then go instantly back to being calm right after the moment of impact. That is emotional control.

Even the patterns use this. Relaxation, followed by detonation, followed by relaxation again. Let me get an example:


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you can see my expressions change rapidly, from calm to flaring up, back to calm again. This is like how we learn emotional control with our patterns.

This is less than a percent effort; I am holding back due to people nearby; it would make a scene if the homes started feeling tremors from my patterns. A set of one floor buildings surrounding a local Dojo rumbled on every Gae Baek Tul technique, each one of which was far too quick for the leaders of the Karate of Japan Federation International present there to keep up with, back when I did fifteen percent effort during a seminar I provided (and nearly broke their makiwara adult board in half at eight percent effort). The leader later told me I was the best one at hand-to-hand combat he had ever met, and gave utmost respect to Tae-Kwon-Do.

Don't be mistaken: the leader of this place is a Vietnam Veteran: he is fast, although not nearly as fast as Standard ROK Soldiers from the nineteen sixties conflict in Vietnam.

And here is a standard group of ROK Soldiers using tae-kwon-do from that era:

Different from the McDojo and UFC stuff, isn't it?