| Bobby lost his left arm because of a childhood | | | | attacked a plate of food, and he made good |
| illness, but it didn't slow him down. He rode bikes, | | | | progress. Unfortunately, the instructor, while he |
| was athletic, and did everything a child is supposed | | | | would show Bobby all the techniques, would only |
| to do, except for one. He never did the martial | | | | let him work on one specific technique. |
| arts, he assumed that that was one activity he | | | | Day after day, week after week, Bobbie |
| would never be able to do. | | | | concentrated on learning this one technique. |
| When a martial arts training hall opened up in his | | | | Dutifully, he worked out the problems with his |
| neighborhood, however, he could not stop thinking | | | | execution until he could do the technique as |
| about it. He would pass by the school slowly, | | | | smooth as silk. Still, the instructor would not let |
| staring at the kids training inside. He would ask his | | | | him move on to other techniques. |
| friends who studied martial arts about what they | | | | One day, the instructor came up to Bobbie after |
| were learning, but he never went inside the dojo | | | | class and said, "I've entered you in a tournament." |
| because he knew that there was no way he | | | | Bobbie was aghast, he just knew he was going to |
| could do that physical discipline. | | | | be pummeled like a dirty rug and tossed like a rag |
| One day a friend of his invited him to the training | | | | doll. Still, he trusted his instructor, so he went to |
| hall to witness a demonstration. Bobby went, and | | | | the tournament. |
| watched, and sadness ate at his heart like a | | | | He faced his first opponent, and when the attack |
| weedwacker chews weeds. After the | | | | came, he used the one technique and won the |
| demonstration, Bobby met the instructor, who | | | | match. And he used that one technique to defeat |
| invited him to study the martial arts. | | | | the second opponent, and the third. When the end |
| "I don't see how I could," Bobbie said sadly, "since | | | | of day came, Bobbie had won the tournament! |
| I only have a right arm." The instructor put forth | | | | The next day Bobbie thanked his instructor. "The |
| that having one arm wasn't a problem. He said, | | | | thing I don't understand," mused Bobby, "is why |
| "Anything is possible to a man with a whole | | | | that technique worked so well!" His instructor gave |
| heart." | | | | a big grin, "The only defense for that technique, |
| So Bobbie began learning martial arts. He threw | | | | no matter what art you study, is for your |
| himself into the practice like a starving man | | | | opponent to grab your left arm. |