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  • 2 years ago
WayLing is an art of expression founded by Ruben Joseph aka Lion Heart.
Founded in London Hackney 1976
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00:00different people get into martial arts for different reasons you get some
00:04people they get into it to beat up on people yeah ego trip but you learn that
00:11martial arts is definitely about defending yourself you know I mean okay
00:16definitely about defending yourself but to me first things first you then get to
00:24realize that it's about learning self it's about the self-discipline you know
00:30I mean yeah first you know I mean you also find that when you train and you
00:35come to a certain level you don't have to fight and that's another thing and
00:44that's another thing I'm glad you said that because you know when people some
00:48people think of martial arts they think of movies yeah this ain't no movie thing
00:52this is real life the reality is yes you can do certain things you know I mean
00:58but you're not to get caught up in thinking it's all about movies you'll
01:02get into a fight and you can get hurt you can get touched you know I mean but
01:07it's what do you do when you've been touched you get what I'm trying to say
01:11do you do you fall apart and end up losing because your whole your brain
01:16just gonna forget it's all about just just reacting it's reactionary I'm in
01:25the machine and how to behave I wouldn't say well in a sense it is but in in you
01:33doing your drills and all these type of things the drills are not there for you
01:37to say right if this happens this is what you do if that happens that is what
01:41you do you just do you just react so for example if something happened you
01:47learn in the class how you do this you can't determine what the other person is
01:52going to do yeah so therefore yeah you might end up being in a headlock and you
01:57might end up biting the person yeah you understand what I'm saying to you don't
02:00necessarily mean you learned that