learning karate
Michael Weaver
and I am not sure where to ask exactly but are there any websites for Blind
people in the UK who are considering taking up Karate?
I ask because I am trying to find places and people in my home area who
might be able to give me Karate training. I would like to take it up on
grounds of self defence rather than just sport due to attending Schools and
Colleges with a gladiatorial attitude which affected my relationships which
resulted in a girl who wasn't even a New College Worcester or RNC student
having to intervene on my behalf after staff refused to look into my
concerns and she ended up on Heroin in 1997 just as she was about to offer
me a relationship while trying to fight my corner after I reported to her
that I had been bullied.
I think Karate is a skill I require because there are many adults in the UK
older than me who seem to believe it is okay for me and any girl willing to
get romantically involved with me to be hung out to dry for the wrong crowds
just because I am 32 and I have even had rows with the 3 members of my
immediate family over this point ie I was told by one member of my family in
particular that they didn't know the girl I wanted a relationship with a few
years ago so why should they back me after I lost her to drug abuse.
I am getting that desperate I am at the point of appearing on ITVs 9.25 week
day talkshow because of the victimisation and one of the research team has
been in contact regarding my accusation that certain New College and RNC
staff helped encourage such a gladitorial attitude, gladitorial being the
actual word I used when I spoke to the researcher. I blame a Stand up commic
who unfortunately is in my gender, a group of lads who sing in a raucus way
with songs like one called "Sweaty Betty" and a girl group who recently got
back together who I think have problems with any young single guy my age
apart from any guy they are not in a relationship with themselves who seem
to encourage other young women to hatred which might explain the
brainwashing by my potential girlfriends parents including the younger
sister of the girl I lost as a potential girlfriend to drugs, the younger
sister was told to disconnect the phone on me and make it appear there was a
fault on the line and I was tipped off about this by the eldest sister who
has her own family who took her younger sister in, the one I fancied in
order to get her through rehab, the big sister tried to build bridges
between myself and the sister I wanted a relationship with because my family
refused to help which explains my complaint to this talkshow and also
because my 30 year old sister gets 100 percent support from people over her
having a boyfriend, her moving in with him and her getting married next
July.
Brian Gaff
story to unknown people might be a little near the edge and need a bit of
counselling first, and I'm saying this for your own sake not to be clever,
or in any way to be nasty.
For resources on self defence for the blind see In Touch, there was an item
on this in a show some months back. However, as you present here, I think
though you may not actually realise it yet, you need some help to work
through your other issues before you try to get any skills that may get you
in deeper than you are.
I often find that if it seems everyone is persecuting you, it might just be
something that you are doing to provoke it. Being adversarial is not an
answer.
Brian
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chris mcmillan
<michael...@btinternet.com> writes
>I know this isn't exactly a computer related issue but it could be in a
>way and I am not sure where to ask exactly but are there any websites
>for Blind people in the UK who are considering taking up Karate?
Michael. This is a question for alt.disability.blind.social - but the
answer is to get in touch with British Blind Sport.
http://www.britishblindsport.org.uk/
British Blind Sport
4-6 Victoria Terrace
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV31 3AB
Tel:01926 424247
Fax:01926 427775
e-mail:in...@britishblindsport.org.uk
There's a bit about judo on BBS's site but I have heard about people
learning karate. Not so sure about adults though in a dedicated class.
Sincerely Chris
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Michael Weaver
As to the person who seems to believe counselling is the way to go I say I
have done that and worn the teashirt and found most counsellors to be on the
side of the bully with the exception of one I had when I was at Dewsbury
College who now works at the same place where I do voluntary work which is
the Hospice which is about 10 minutes drive away at most from my home.
Most of these counsellors are very likely to take sides with overbearing
young people than me because they get paid for people bringing their
problems to them. A couple of counsellors I tried were even employed by
teachers and a house parent who were sympathetic to the bullies.
To the person who suggested counselling does the song "Off to the discotec"
mean anything?
I think the song was based on one called "off to the Rodeo" which might have
almost been as crude as the one by the stand up commic I blame for the
gender hatred costing me relationships.
I was picked on for watching horror movies yet the students involved got
away with material in their possession that was sexest, racist and the like
by this commic who sang that particular song I mentioned and he also did a
video called "The Good, the bad" and it is not that film where that chap is
stranded in a desert and he comes across water.
Certain students at both New College and RNC were certainly favoured over me
when I was picked on for reading or listening to stories in the horror
Ficton Genre ie "The Devil rides out" while the creepy guys in their teens
plus had songs with words like "Toss me off, f---ing birds get on my f---ing
nerves" which was refered to in "off to the Discotec", birds being the term
for females and some of these people were younger than me.
That song "Sweaty Betty" goes even further because it was something like
"Sweaty Betty, she has a huge followed by the female body part, sweaty Betty
you can fit a bus inside her" so I think that explains why I am getting agro
and why people fobb me off and say "Take anti depressants" or "Go to
counselling" which I think is unfortunately the usual British response.
I certainly am pigeonholed in with the guys into that material which makes
me ashamed to be a British young male regardless of whether or not a girl
gets intimate with me.
Perhaps if certain British people older than me who have implied I am a liar
or suffering from mental illness went to www.chubbybrown.biz or
www.macclads.co.uk and looked at the explicit content, they may work out why
I lost a potential girlfriend to Heroin abuse because of serious bullying
and may realise why I feel they are protecting the bullies in and around my
age in both genders and maybe act on my behalf for a change so I don't need
to learn Karate or go to the ITV Talkshow.
Apart from trying to point the non-believer which might even include my mum
and dad to such explicit content on these websites I fear the only thing
that will force these non-believers to act is if they were to loose someone
they love to class A drugs like my potential girlfriend's younger sister
telling me on the phone that she was using Heroin, the stuff about her
getting Hepatitas from infected Heroin and getting sectioned.
If the non-believers in the teenage and even older adult world over the age
of 32 in the UK had only one person backing them if they were picked on and
that person sold out for drugs and sex they would be getting in contact with
me and saying "Michael, we know how you feel about you loosing someone you
love to drugs because it has happened to us, we will do all we can to back
you" instead of being heavy handed to the point of forcing me out of the UK
while the teenage to mid 30 criminals are laughing all the way to the bank
so to speak and even getting jobs at the BBC.
I know two people in the BBC who were in my year at Worcester and neither of
them should have got a job in the organisation.
One was the sister of a journalist who does reporting in the Middle East who
ran in the London Marathon to rais money for the Blind a few years ago. She
acted as a lookout when the lads and other girls were taunting me and the
other person was one of the ringleaders who had a reputation for
intimidation and possibly violence who had a hold over women, even ones he
bullied and this lad was on "Intouch" a while ago talking about Radio
Presenting. I told a lad who knew me from Tapton Mount who was another
Worcester student a few years below me and I was told that this ringleader
had been given a job working for BBC Radio Dragon and a girl I played
Goallball with in Leeds a while ago was one of the few girls he didn't seem
to have a hold over.
I think my family don't support me over my concerns because that girl I lost
to drugs and her younger sister before she disconnected the phone on me
offered to act whereas my family refused like the younger sister of the girl
I lost as a potential girlfriend to drugs phoned a girl who knew this lad
who bullied me because her loyalties were divided between him and me and she
said she would be down to Worcester on the Train from where they lived which
is near a Seaside town in the UK with an extreme drug problem and she said
she would sort him out if he posed any threat to me and my family don't like
any potential girlfriend who might find the courage to back me and assure me
I am not on my own.
I have one female friend who works in the Nursery at Dewsbury College and
she has stood by me despite not being the brightest person and despite her
turning me down for a relationship.
The way non-believers behave makes this not verry bright female who is just
a year younger than my 30 year old sister seem like Albert Instine.
She not only outshines some girls either side of her age who I could be
dating by seeing me for me but she also outshines some adults in their late
30s plus because when she says she will meet me she does and she thinks for
herself even if her hands might be slightly tied in some way and she doesn't
play the gender card either like some girls in their teens to mid 30s do and
like some older adults do which is why I accuse some of them of being heavy
handed and my accusation stands today as much as it did when I was at New
College and RNC.
If that girl I loved and lost to drugs is still alive and clean I think she
would be livid that girls like her in a position to date me with brains and
all these A levels and GCSEs are still taking advantage of me and that she
tried to bring about changes for the better for me and nearly died in order
to bring about such changes and that nothing has been learned and that all
her suffering has been entirely wasted because I still fear for my safety
trying to get romantically involved with someone while my 30 year old sister
plans her life with her boyfriend regardless.
Michael Weaver
around my age and some older adults as well fobbed me off.
I have a suggestion to make for these non-believers.
I challenge them to live at 46 Kirkfield Road in Withernsea for a week at
least or maybe only a few days may be necessary, that they sleep in the same
bed as Marie the girl I lost as a girlfriend to Heroin abuse, the same girl
who was trying to sort out me being stuck in a gender war with my
relationships suffering because of it, they experience the locks on the
windows which were to prevent the drug dealers getting to her or her going
to them, they have to put up with police using CS gas to try and get rid of
the drug dealers and then they can come back and tell me that I don't need
Karate for protection of myself and maybe my potential girlfriends.
I would find out quickly enough if they come around to my way of thinking
and support me or still insist I have a mental illness and still need
counselling.
bando?ers
MW
I know this isn't exactly a computer related issue but it could be in a
way and I am not sure where to ask exactly but are there any websites
for Blind people in the UK who are considering taking up Karate?
Your right/not a good fit for this group. Many of the UK people from
this group seem to be on alt.disability.blind.social, and I have noticed
a couple of other groups around with names something like-
*.*.support.blindness, or *.blind.support...(or something like that) I
am also considering taking up martial arts, something I've not done
since my teens. I highly recommend self defense training for VI folks,
especially oriental martial arts. Apart from the obvious, the esteem
boost, and the increased awareness are invaluable benefits to be gained
from these disciplines.
MW
I ask because I am trying to find places and people in my home area who
might be able to give me Karate training. I would like to take it up on
grounds of self de fence rather than just sport due to
MW
I live in Mexico/can't help you there.
MW
attending Schools and Colleges with a gladiatorial attitude which
affected my relationships which ...my behalf after staff refused to look
into my concerns and she ended up on Heroin in 1997 just as she was
about to offer me a relationship while trying to fight my corner after I
reported to her that I had been bullied.
MW
I hope this is love, 12 years is a long time to be obsessing over an
infatuation.
MW
I think Karate is a skill I require because there are many adults in the
UK older than me who seem to believe it is okay for me and any girl
willing to get romantically involved with me to be hung out to dry for
the wrong crowds just because...
MW
I went through some similar stuff when I was in my early 20's, but as
time went by, experience taught me to better read people, trust my
intuition, and a few rough moments showed me that when I am in the right
there is something bigger than me that helps me come out on top.
Of course discretion is the better part of valor, and with a more
confident atitude one attracts much less sh$t.
I am 32 and
MW
I have even had rows with the 3 members of my immediate family over
this point ie I was told by one member of my family in particular that
they didn't know the girl I wanted a relationship with a few years ago
so why should they back me after I lost her to drug abuse.
MW
Drugs are one of the hardest thing for people who have not been there
and done that to understand/prejudice rules!
MW
I am getting that desperate I am at the point of appearing on ITVs 9.25
week day talkshow because of the victimisation and one of the research
team has been in contact regarding my accusation that certain New
College and RNC staff helped encourage such a gladitorial attitude,
gladitorial being theMW
Sounds like you are caught up in a blame game. I don't know the
details, but unless you are dealing with one f$ckup or there is some
cult like group at your school you are wasting your time. You can't
change a society in time to do yourself any good, if you can even make a
difference at all, and nobody respects a victim.
If you are dealing with a lot of anger or other emotional issues, look
for a good counselor, and try to talk to other disabled people who have
learned to deal with this stuff, and go for the karate. Look for a
traditional instructor who will teach the mental and spiritual aspects
as well as teach you how to hit someone. And stick with it. Judo and
its parent jujitsu are good too.
MW
is in my gender, a group of lads who sing in a raucus way with songs
like one called "Sweaty Betty" and a girl group who recently got back
together who I think have problems with any young single
MW
Damn man! You are starting to lose me here. You can't change them, you
can only work on yourself. If you would like to talk to a blind guy who
has live through some confusing times too, let's take this off the
group. Feel free to e-mail me at- burt1iband at (the world's largest
search engine) dot com. Can you say gm ail? (somethings are too private
to be cataloged by google, yahoo, and god forbid that bing thing.
MW
...themselves who seem to encourage other young women to hatred which
might explain the brainwashing by my potential girlfriends parents
including the younger sister of the girl I lost as a pot
...big sister tried to build bridges between myself and the sister I
wanted a relationship with because my family refused to help which
explains my complaint to this talkshow and also because my 30 year old
sister gets 100 percent support from people over her having a boyfriend,
her moving in with him and her getting married next July
MW
Sounds like a soap opera/don't waste your time on idiots and a-holes.
There are more than 6,000,000,000 people on the planet, and many of them
are pretty cool...don't go through others if you realy care about this
almost girlfriend...face to face or you don't have a chance.
I will talk if you want, deleted the first/better draft of this msg, and
took the time to rewrite...so....
Burt Henry
be the change you wish to see in the world.-Gandhi
Michael Weaver escribi�:
bando?ers
You are right that serious abuse can and should be investigated; even
after the fact, but don't give up on counseling because of the
experience you had with counselors at the schools where you had the probs.
Also as another poster said, if everyone seems against you, they may be
seeing something that you are not. There are a lot of messed up kids
and adults out there, but if you let them mess you up then they have one.
Get over it and get a life.
B.H.
Michael Weaver escribi�:
chris mcmillan
<burt1...@gmail.com> writes
>Hi Mike,
>MW
>I know this isn't exactly a computer related issue but it could be in a
>way and I am not sure where to ask exactly but are there any websites
>for Blind people in the UK who are considering taking up Karate?
>MW
>
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