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Q.
How do you use martial art to get aggressive and
potentially violent young men to identify
principles of integrity?
A.
By building into the lessons concepts that
highlight the use of conscience.
We structure our lessons to show that there is a
moral obligation at the centre of every act in
life. Each student learns that every
choice they make is either founded upon the
highest principles they know, or upon lesser
principles in order to satisfy ulterior motives.
Such insight gives them an internal measure for
trueness – or in other words, it brings to light
the level of their own personal integrity.
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Q.
What is to stop a student only learning
the combat aspects found in Wu-Chi, and
totally disregarding the character
development content in the lessons?
A.
Moral ethics are not only taught as part
of the lessons in the classroom, but are
required to be taken up by a student
before they can progress to the next
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A student's personal integrity and
level of ethic are examinable subjects,
with each successive rank only being
obtained by those whose level of
personal conduct precedes their martial
art ability.
The situation of a student in our
classes trying to take the combat
content without the moral principles,
parallels the one depicted in the
sketch; where the monkey cannot run away
with the peanuts that are inside the jar
without his hand being bound by the jar,
and for him to be free of the jar he
must first let go of the much desired
peanuts — a feat that we have proven to
be greater than the student (monkey)
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Q.
Don't you think that using martial art to
prevent youth from becoming violent is the
paradox of all time?
A.
We appreciate the fact that people are concerned
about any potentially harmful repercussions of
exposing youth to a character development
program that involves martial art, but this is
no more a paradox than the science of
immunization.
We parallel the concerns that some people may
have towards us using martial art to avert
boisterous and vigorous youth from developing
violent or aggressive attributes, to that of a
young mother taking her first child to be
immunized against a virus like hepatitis – only
to learn from the doctor that he wants to inject
her cherished child with a serum that carries
the deadly disease.
At the time of immunization the child is in good
health, and the only evidence of it being at
risk of coming into contact with the disease is
the fact that it is human. But, when we
learn that modern vaccines are genetically
engineered to successfully build vital
antibodies without producing the full blown
disease, to consider not immunizing children
would be to adopt the attitude of what is
commonly termed as ‘an unconcerned parent’.
However true it is that a child might be able to
go through life without becoming wayward or
emotionally violent; the fact still remains that
today many youth are not able to do this.
For this reason we have specially engineered our
martial art programs to safely develop in youth
the type of integrity that changes any
potentially abusive and violent tendencies into
individual strength of character – the ultimate
anti-body to ensure personal stability (and thus
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Q.
With all the emphasis in your school on making
our community a better place, what is to stop
any of your students becoming vigilantes?
A.
All our teaching material is directed at
governing self and not others. The lessons
are based upon personal development, which is
founded upon the opposite spirit to that of a
vigilante. |
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