Sunday, November 9, 2008
martial arts part two
I think tae kwon do in some instances is a form of resocialization. There are new norms with in the studio that get transferred into the real world, but I don’t necessarily think that it changes totally who you are, like a boot camp, since it isn't constantly surrounding you and other norms are able to add to who you are and how you portray who you are. Being around people all different age groups from 5-60 took me out of the groups based on age that society puts you in since you start school, which I think in turn was a good thing because I was able to expirience the lives of people different than me, people dealing with different problems and striving to reach different goals. I think this helped me put my life in prospective and made me more understanding of the realities of the world at a young age.
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Relating your martial arts exp to age and socialization is very insightful. I often use aikido as the antithesis to our school system in America. In aikido and (tae kwon do) the more experienced students teach the less experienced students. In doing this it helps everyone. The exp learn from the inexp and vice versa. This allows the exp students to feel important and to see their own progress and to see how they are teachers too as well as learners. In our school system we have very little of this: each group is separated into grades and classes and they are all taught the same: they have very little chances to be the teacher or use their skills or feel their own progress.
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