Why Won't My Teacher Train Me? Physical vs Intellectual Knowledge - Ep #115

So spring of 1998, September, walk into the gym to lift some weights.

And Ed Hamada, why don't you come try the Wing Chun class? So I did.

And I loved it.

Every Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6 to 8.30 p.m., two and a half hours, we would train.

We would sweat.

We would laugh.

We'd pop each other in the lip every now and then.

It happens.

But Ed was a great teacher.

He was 45 years old, 46 years old at the time.

It's wild to think that I'm older than he is now.

And he was good at rodeoing these 18, 19, 20.

The oldest person in the class was 25, 26-year-olds.

And be like, hey, put the egos down.

Let's try this.

So we worked, we sweat, we train.

You could hear the pox house popping.

You could hear, you know, laughter in the air, all this other stuff.

We were putting in hours of physical work.

And then Sifu Mary would come in twice a year and just unload all this intellectual knowledge upon us.

Hey, look at what the forums are trying to teach you.

Look at what the drills are trying to teach you.

Look at the skill sets, right? that they're trying to teach you.

And we would just drain it.

It would absorb into us intellectually.

So spring of 1998, September, walk into the gym to lift some weights.

And Ed Hamada, why don't you come try the Wing Chun class? So I did.

And I loved it.

Every Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6 to 8.30 p.m., two and a half hours, we would train.

We would sweat.

We would laugh.

We'd pop each other in the lip every now and then.

It happens.

But Ed was a great teacher.

He was 45 years old, 46 years old at the time.

It's wild to think that I'm older than he is now.

And he was good at rodeoing these 18, 19, 20.

The oldest person in the class was 25, 26-year-olds.

And be like, hey, put the egos down.

Let's try this.

So we worked, we sweat, we train.

You could hear the pox house popping.

You could hear, you know, laughter in the air, all this other stuff.

We were putting in hours of physical work.

And then Sifu Mary would come in twice a year and just unload all this intellectual knowledge upon us.

Hey, look at what the forums are trying to teach you.

Look at what the drills are trying to teach you.

Look at the skill sets, right? that they're trying to teach you.

And we would just drain it.

It would absorb into us intellectually.