My son's Kung Fu instructor on TV
 

He's got his own TV show now ....!! it was a real surprise to see him on tv tonight !

It's a TV show where a man (him) stays in the family during two weeks to try to resolve the problems between a teenager and the parents (violence, insults etc ..), and also to show the young man he's wasting his time doing nothing etc etc ...

This young man tonight was 17 years old and was arrested something like 5 times already, for different things, violence was one of them.

This instructor, is 4 time world champion, he is 35 years old and he is really impressive at Kung Fu. (I don't think the family knows this at the beginning). I knew he worked in the surbubs near where i live and in Paris, but i didn't know what he was doing exactly.

He is a grand frère .... the ones who help the young in difficulties in surbubs.
He is patient, strict and the dialogue is so natural for him. With kids he is just great.

During these two weeks he did a great job, only professionnel can do what he did with this guy. It's amazing !! by patience, dialogue and a lot of energy he managed to show him what a waste his life was ! He even took him in a surbub (near here) and they met guys the instructor knows who were real delinquents before, they told him he didn't know his luck to live in a real house, to know his mother etc .. they told him some people here needs ten years to buy themselves a car, and you, you break it in a few minutes !!

At the end this guy found a job - because of course he wasn't at school anymore but didn't work ! - He don't insult his parents anymore. He respects them. He is conscient of what he did and he is not proud at all.

At some point the instructor took him to the dojo where i live for a bit of Kung Fu .... the young man was shy and he started to laugh like an idiot, but after a while he did really well, he had no choice though lol. But you can see he likes it.

Great great job !!!

I'm doing a day with him soon, cardio fighting, i'd better behave :p

He is also my neighbour's cousin so i told my son, see ? if you turn like this, i won't even shout ! i'd call Pascal :D

I don't know how he can do this job since a so long time !

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Sorry girls can't find other pics but i can tell you topless he is .... mmm :p

Nice story Jess!! :D

Thats Cool Jess :D

Yes that's cool. That's brave too to reveale your life like that. He always asked the ones who know a bit what he does for a living to not tell the others. He prefered to keep it secret. But to help, to show that it's possible to make things better when lots of families think the opposite he chose to reveale who he is on tv.
The casting : apparently there were about 100 "grands frères" ... but the producers found him and asked him, he wasn't at the casting first in fact.

very cool.

I think alot of young people need a kick up the arse to get themselves in order to the point where I think every guy under the age of 21 should spend a night in jail to see what it's like.

It's cool that this guy can help and hopefully people watching who have problems will sort themselves out to or at least try.

It's amazing how grounded and introspectivee martial arts etc... tends to make people. I've had a handful of people comment on how zen like ive become and how I seem to look at things differently since I started boxing. I think alot of it has to do with having the ability and know how to be aggresive/ violent/ do damage but controlling it.

I'm not surprised Jim, martial arts can change someone, really.
Glad it brings you so much.

This man is so sweet, clever, patient, friendly and all, he never shout ! and he's not tall you know, same as me, 171cm maybe just a bit more. You'd really never guess the champion he is. RESPECT :)

And yes i think the persons who will watch this show will see in what sort of infernal circle they are and how they can break it. He explains things clearly. No insult, but dialogue and never give up ! never ! That's most of the time the problem, the parents give up at some point because of too much harrassement from their kids. (which i understand). They test us, and if we fail once at the beginning it can become really bad.

And young people who will watch it will hear the message from these guys Pascal knows in surbubs (i hope), they clearly say it, all this is stupid, you lose your time while you do silly things and one day you just regret but for some it's too late. The way these guys talk to the young ones is not really sweet, they tell them things truely. But as it comes from the men they'd like to be somewhere, they listen. Those young are just lost sometimes and before it's too late it's good if some persons can help them/show them the right way.

It's not necessary that they're obliged to go to school for example, other ways are possible, they need someone to show them this and to push them to really start something and then to continue it. And Pascal, for example, explained this young man he promised and when a man makes a promise he must do what he said.
He also showed him simple things like doing your bed and wake up before 12pm or having lunch with the rest of the family are important.

exactly jess. one of the reasons i want to be a teacher is because I think I could do it well and wether they realise it or not at the time, an education is the best resource a kid is ever going to be given but also because although I wasn't as bad as the kids on this show obviously are, I was never an angel by any stretch of the imagination during my teens.

I come from a pretty rough area and have done some really stupid stuff in my time but I'm testament to the fact that you can say you know what, i want to stop acting like an idiot and do something with my life and I think examples like that can show kids who think they're predestined to a life of drudgery hanging outside a bookies and drinking superlager all day that it's not life or society that determines where they end up, it's them that does.

I agree Jim. Sure you need to be strong to change but it is possible.
Some are just too lazy and some just dream .. thinking oh i'll see later ....... life will be good soon, like if someone will knock at their door to give them the job they'd like and their driving licence etc etc ... It's not life.

As you said a good kick up in the arse and something or someone to show them they can do something and sometimes it's enough ! they realise what is life.

I wasn't an angel either Jim .... i did some really stupid things and i know it's easy to stay in this circle, it's more difficult to decide to change. The guys from the gang where i lived when i was 12/13 years old changed a lot with the help of martial arts, now i know maybe half are in jail or doing nothing of their life but half of them work and have a family etc ... :) that's good to know. For us it was Taek Won Do and Kung Fu. I stayed with them a few years, i think i was the first one to make a move in the "right direction", first they didn't really understood, they were nearly all older than i was and i was the one who tell them you can't live your life like that !!!

What i don't really understand is the fascination some have for gangs or prison etc ...... why do they want to become like them ?