Lisa pitched me one before my hand hit the one I reached for. ‘Hot up there?’ she asked. ‘Just a tad,’ I replied. ‘Is it always like that?�... ‘Most nights, yes. It depends a lot on the hall, the crowd, and the feel of the place. If the crowd isn’t reacting, you try your best to make them. If they are, you try to keep it up. Either way, it can be hot work.’ ‘Seems like a lot of work for not near enough money.’ ‘Hell, if I was in it for the money, I’d a quit years ago. I like it.’ ‘Mind if I ask. Tracy stepped up to the speed bag and tried to do what Chuck had told her."Hit the bag with a rhythm. You control that rhythm, not the bag."She lifted her arms and hit the bag a couple of times, but it flopped around listlessly. She tried again, but after two or three hits, she couldn't get it."Lift up your left hand and square off your shoulders,' a huge bodybuilder told her. Tracy lifted up her hands and took a couple of tentative swings."Like this?" Yeah... you got it."Tracy took a few more. I had imagined (correctly, as I later discovered) that corporal punishment had been a feature of the girls' education prior to my arrival on the scene. I believed that its continued use would benefit from drawing a direct line back to their earlier formative experiences. Of course, such punishments did not represent the entirety of the measures that I employed, the wide range of behavioural adjustments needed meant that an equally broad range of training approaches have to be used. Even so I. ”“You were obviously upset and you are a very passionate young man. I accept your apology. Now, tell me what happened.”“Mrs. Ingles threatened to remove Marcia from the tournament and the dojo because she doesn’t approve of some things about my life.”“You have not behaved inappropriately with your student, have you?”I shook my head, and saw the corner of Ailea’s lip turn up, but fortunately her grandfather couldn’t see her.“No. It’s something in my private life which she discovered last night..