@MentORPHEUS

;The philosophy and discipline was polar opposite of Mr. Miyagi style

I haven't seen "The Karate Kid" since I was a child. The gist of what I recall about Mr. Miyagi was he made Daniel do chores, but in a way that the movements mimicked the basic blocks.

After Daniel started calling BS and saying that he was supposed to be learning karate and not just providing free labor, Mr. Miyagi demonstrated with him that the movements were the basic blocks (which Daniel should have already known, given all the books he had read about karate).

I don't remember much else about "discipline and philosophy" from that movie (I think I last watched it in the early 1990s on VHS with my instructor at his dojo), so I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

All the school bullies seemed to enroll there, and loved inflicting their moves on weaker defenseless kids just trying to mind their own business.

That sucks. I guarantee that if the instructors were worth a shit, they'd have put a stop to it.

When my mom told my instructor that I was bullying my two younger brothers (which was truly awful of me, considering how much I had been bullied in school and how much I hated it, and it was part of why I was in karate in the first place), my instructor declared it sparring night, but instead of the usual rotation of opponents, I spent the next hour getting my ass kicked by the instructor. Badly.

He was a good instructor. I stopped bullying. I also learned I was better than I thought, as when I stopped being scared and started fighting back, I got a few good hits in (including a back kick out of sheer desperation that got him in the groin).

Did those instructors never find out they were assisting bullies in becoming more effective?

And did any of the bullies ever steal your crush? (I had to ask before Vermy did)