Some are strippers. Here we are inclusive of everyone, straight, gay, male, female, transgender, strippers, clergy, disabled, whatever all are welcome to Scouting and Guiding.
Everyone? pedifiles, murderers, arsonists, spousal abusers....
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Some are strippers. Here we are inclusive of everyone, straight, gay, male, female, transgender, strippers, clergy, disabled, whatever all are welcome to Scouting and Guiding.
Everyone? pedifiles, murderers, arsonists, spousal abusers....
For adults in the UK working with children we have the DBS scheme, anyone working and/or volunteering with children and vulnerable adults has to have one. Of course it only works if you have a record but until we are issued with crystal balls it will have to do. In Guiding we have to have two referees, of course that again isn't a total surety. We do have procedures though to safeguard the children as much as is humanly possible.
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I can see the similarity. Martial arts is, in my opinion, little to do with the mechanics of the moves. Its more about the mental focus and discipline required in the endeavour to perfect those moves, and apply them, and most importantly, NOT apply them at all if we can help it. I was never in cubs or scouts but I had a fair few friends that were. They had the same mental focus and discipline and resourcefulness.
I never said the martial arts and boy scouts are the exact same thing, I was saying they've got some things in common, and that some of the concepts that you apply to one can be applied to the other. And other than that, what does strippers have to do with this?
I've never heard if a stripper having a rank or of any ranking system used in stripping. Boy Scouts on the other hand does have a ranking system and so do many of the styles of martial arts.
Some are strippers. Here we are inclusive of everyone, straight, gay, male, female, transgender, strippers, clergy, disabled, whatever all are welcome to Scouting and Guiding.
That would depend on the style of martial arts whether or not it stresses the physical aspects such as the moves or the mental focus. For instance, Muai Thai is practically all physical, or at least its mostly physical whereas a style such as Tai Chi places a much bigger emphases on the mental focus that you mention. Boy Scouts can also put good emphasis on physical aspects. Part of being a good scout is being physically strong and some of the merit badges such as sports, swimming, athletics, and physical fitness put a big emphasis on physical attributes and some of the badges I just mentioned are required for Eagle Scout. Overall, though, I would say that both martial arts and boy scouts have both physical and mental aspects in them.
Yeah Tez. As with most things that people do not understand, they have to disparage that what they do not want to understand. That is what annoys me!!
That would depend on the style of martial arts whether or not it stresses the physical aspects such as the moves or the mental focus. For instance, Muai Thai is practically all physical, or at least its mostly physical whereas a style such as Tai Chi places a much bigger emphases on the mental focus that you mention. Boy Scouts can also put good emphasis on physical aspects. Part of being a good scout is being physically strong and some of the merit badges such as sports, swimming, athletics, and physical fitness put a big emphasis on physical attributes and some of the badges I just mentioned are required for Eagle Scout. Overall, though, I would say that both martial arts and boy scouts have both physical and mental aspects in them.
Who disparaged scouting? I've seen a lot of posts in this thread poking fun at silly comparisons, but none dogging scouting...
Every martial art does have a ranking system of some sort. Even those styles that don't use different colored belts or patches on the uniform or any other type of official rank, there is the instructor/student hierarchy and that is your ranking system right there.
Every martial art does have a ranking system of some sort. Even those styles that don't use different colored belts or patches on the uniform or any other type of official rank, there is the instructor/student hierarchy and that is your ranking system right there.