Grappling Is No Art - By Kelly D. Tolman

Posted by admin on October 31, 2008

Grappling is not an art or science,

Mostly its just pain. You start at white

And no matter how hard you fight

Nothing works. You lose and lose

And then you hurt. And then you lose

Some more.

Then one day you get a belt that’s blue.

And you think you understand.

Till your butt is kicked and you hurt

Even worse, and still nothing works

And you continue to lose. But at least you

Can beat the hell outta white belts if they get

Pissy anymore.

A long road follows, and mostly you wish

You were dead, or at least quadriplegic.

Now everything hurts, and it doesn’t stop.

Still nothing works, except on those blues,

And they don’t know anything anyway.

Purple isn’t all its cracked up to be, but someday

At least you’ll be brown.

What’s the point of this belt? Brown, sure

I can beat up half the planet,

But that isn’t the half I care about.

By now there should be a better way than pain,

Don’t tell me we have to do all this again?

I thought I knew that move, and that one too,

Now I’m getting a little frustrated.

At last I’ve got a black belt. Woot, woot.

I can beat all but a few of the best

Unless they bring a two by four.

All that hard work, that agony, and

Near despair. Just to learned what I knew

When I began. I still have a lot to learn.

Copyright 2008 Kelly David Tolman

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