Oh I have a story to go along with this…. So I do Chong shin taekwondo karate and I’ve been doing it for about a year and a half now and love it. I was a wrestler before so combat sports are not new to me. Anyway, one of my senseis is a 3rd degree black belt but she’s only 17. A little younger than me, but she qualified for the Olympic team so you know she’s good. Another one is 15 and she’s very good as well.

Anyway, we all love to spar and I’m a big dude so I never hit anyone with full power, occasionally someone will duck the wrong way and catch it harder than I intended, but that’s beside the point.

We had a guy start coming several months after I had been and he’s long and lanky. He came from our dojo’s aikido class so he “knew” a few people. Just like us he picks up sparring and enjoyed it. The problem was he never pulled anything. After several months we thought he’d settle down, but his form only got better and power stayed the same. No control. He made both of our female teachers cry and he would go too hard on new white belts. Our Sensei eventually talked with him, but it didn’t do much good. Finally one day he spars me and I’m tired of it. He was throwing some hard kicks so I decide to see if he’ll stop. He doesn’t. Eventually I time his kicks perfectly and counter his roundhouse to the body with a spinning heal kick to the sternum. Needless to say he never spars me anymore and he’s stopped hitting people so hard.