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**Pataacculakp** · 03-27-2011, 07:21 AM

I was not advocating that students do any serious training in bogu early on, but that they have an early opportunity to wear it, experience what its like moving around, try some strikes and be allowed to experience getting hit (not keiko, just a demonstration) a few times. Then go back to serious training without it until their instructor deems them ready to begin training in it more or less full time. At least newcomers will have an idea of what is coming and for those that perhaps have the real aversion to it can make the choice before they have spent much time. And for the rest, it might be an additional motivator.

This is not a hypothetical situation (I bought my bogu from one of those beginners who dropped out after one class in bogu), but perhaps its not common enough to worry about (or no reasonable way around it)?

03-27-2011, 07:21 AM	#18
Pataacculakp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 463 Senior Member	I was not advocating that students do any serious training in bogu early on, but that they have an early opportunity to wear it, experience what its like moving around, try some strikes and be allowed to experience getting hit (not keiko, just a demonstration) a few times. Then go back to serious training without it until their instructor deems them ready to begin training in it more or less full time. At least newcomers will have an idea of what is coming and for those that perhaps have the real aversion to it can make the choice before they have spent much time. And for the rest, it might be an additional motivator. This is not a hypothetical situation (I bought my bogu from one of those beginners who dropped out after one class in bogu), but perhaps its not common enough to worry about (or no reasonable way around it)?
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