We were police we were young 8:From left hand left leg to right hand right leg.

We were police we were young. 8: From left hand left leg to right hand right leg: Marching.

When you curse someone didn’t give any help but reversely giving you some troubles, you would say: “Don’t get in the way on my business.” In Chinese “Please don’t left hand left leg.”

Do you know why scolding someone “Please don’t left had left leg…”rather than others.

In 1980’s, the junior police students were starting from the basic step with unarmed in the parade of Police Training School. To two months later, they will be assigned a rifle with bayonet which hadn’t been fired shots; at this stage, the police students will need to learn a series of steps of rifle drills.

“You must be walking steady usually, before to start running on the road.”

This principle is very appropriate using on the march.

All of the instructors for marching training are male, and the students need to learn the stand attention position as the first step in PTS, but almost all the teenage of Hong Kong have had a back bending problem, this problem must need to solve in PTS. Actually, because of the back had already bended, so that couldn’t to fix that immediately, it always to reveal the old problem in not aware case.

The good instructor will have always alerted students must be the chest up. (So many instructors like to teach the marching course of the female class.)

The bad instructor would be gave you a punch on you back without any warning.

If the students being trained in winter, they will be wearing the long-sleeved sweater, it doesn’t matter even if have a little back bending.

But in summer, the male students are not wearing the T-shirt, if so appeared “back bending” in marching, it doesn’t look good.  Even more can not “back bending” if the shoulder is holding a rifle . So that, the general instructor will be spent more time to correct the basic stand attention position of students, always reminded students to feel the center line of the body, posture must be straight as they felt their center line of the body.

The instructor demanded the students must have the sense of rhythm. It must be stiffed, and doesn’t look good if the marching without any sense of rhythm.

Initially, the whole squad can call out the steps of marching and accepted by the instructor, so, if you heard the whole squad call out the steps of marching passing from your side, this squad must the new one.

From stand attention position to start marching, the steps are starting form left leg, therefore, the whole new squad will always call out “left… left…left, right, left”. Left leg step forward and right hand straighten at balanced to the shoulder, fingers up and seized the fist; left hand put behind at 45 degrees

When the steps were wrong, someone wanted to correct the steps but influenced by another one as the students of the squad didn’t match to each others, it would be happened the left hand and left leg moved forward at the same time.

This is the “left hand left leg”.

You can try to walk with the left hand left leg at the same time at home, that you will know how ugly you have done, and you have never seen it before.

It was the disaster as the “left hand left leg” happened in the playground that must be attracted all kinds of “Yan Chi Ching” from the all directions.

Consequently, the instructors will be prevented their junior students entered into the playground, let them to practice at the small playground for several weeks, and then will leading them marching into the “Holy land” to feel the echo effect of the PTS until to make sure the students have strong enough facing the pressure.

當你去罵人做事幫不了忙，反倒過來妨礙其他人的時候，會罵他：「不要左手左腳！」

知不知道為何會罵：「不要左手左腳呢？」

一九八零年代，在警察訓練學校的步操，初級學警是先從基本的徒手步操開始。到了兩個月之後，便會分配到一支不能發射但配有刺刀的步槍；到了這個階段的學警便要學習一系的步槍操練步法。

“未學跑步之前，平時行路一定要平穩。”

這個道理應用在步操上十分恰當！

學堂負責教導學員步操的全都是男性教官。學警第一個要學習的動作，就是立正。香港青少年，大多數都有曲背的問題，這個問題來到學堂便要糾正。因為習慣了曲背，所以並不是要改正便可以改正，通常都會在不自覺的情況下出現老毛病。好的教官，會經常大聲提醒學員要“挺胸收腹”。(故此，有很多教官都想教導女學警步操！)

不好的教官，便會在毫無提示的情況下在你背部給你一記老拳！如果在冬季日子受訓，身上穿上了長袖毛衣，就算真的有少許曲背，問題也不大。但是在夏天，男學警都是不穿上衣，若然步操的時候曲背，就不好看！
如果是肩托著步槍，就更不可以曲背！所以，一般教官都會花很多時間去糾正學員的基本站立姿勢，經常會提醒學員要感覺到自己身上的「中線」，當感覺到身上的「中線」，姿勢必定畢直。
              教官在學員接受步操之前，都會要求學員要有節拍感覺，沒有節拍感覺的步操絕對是“生硬”的！不會好看！最初，教官會容許整個步操行列一同在口中叫出步法，所以當你聽到一整個步操行列的人都同時叫出步法口號的時候，這一個行列必定是新丁！
              從立正到起動，步法是由“左”開始，所以新丁都會一直叫著“LEFT”……“LEFT”……“LEFT”“RIGHT”“LEFT”，左腳踏前便右手伸直提起到肩頭平衡，手指頭向上合實拳頭，左手擺後45度。
    當步法錯了，行列中的學員互相不配合，有人想糾正自己的步法但又被其他人影響，便會出現在左腳踏前的時候同時伸出了左手，這就是“左手左腳”，你可以試試以“左手左腳”在家中走幾步，看看會有多麼難看！
    在大操場上出現“左手左腳”,絕對是大災難！必定會招徠從四方八面送來的“三字經”！

    所以，教官通常都會避免讓初班學警進入大操場，要新丁在小操場的某個角落苦練數週，認為有把握的時候，才會帶領新丁操入大操場，讓學員感受大操場的回音氣勢！

We were police we were young. 7 The training of foul language

We were police we were young: 7 The training of Foul Language

"Yan Tsz Ching " (三字經) is the classical Chinese reading, but it also means foul language in twenty-century Chinese society, because almost all the Chinese foul language is composed by three single word that is as like as the instruction of “Yan Tsz Ching” by three single word. If you want to be used smoothly in foul language (Yan Tsz Hing), that must need to be learnt diligently. Let them to make a suddenly shocked the people, it must need to more listens, speaks, practices and used with emotions and sounds in the different kinds of occasions.

When I was a child, my father was a guy who loved stand by Male-dominated the family, although he didn’t have any educated, but in my memories he had never been spoken foul languages in the faces of the family; he had just only to speak some Chinese adverb, not the foul language for the most exciting times. For example: in any case I will(“老虎蟹都要…！”).

My mother had never been a formally education, but she can read and write; she doesn’t allowed her children speaking foul languages at home since I was born. As I was brought up in this background, it let an eighteen years old teenage boy to create some foul language from his mind to suit to use by himself while he lives in the Police Training School, and have to listen different kinds of foul language from all directions comes into the ears from the beginning of sunshine.

The two instructors of Q class have abilities changed their speaking channel. They had never been spoken foul language in class and hostel, just only to perform a little stern attitude treating their students in public places.

The aim of the performance of speaking foul language at public place, is preventing the others instructors come to do something about “none of your business”, and trying to protect their students stay away from the troubles.

In my memory, once in the playground while parade with other students of same course, a classmate who standing beside me, he was suddenly lost in space, the reaction was too slow about the orders by the parade in charge officer, and because of its was the parade of eighty students, it was very striking as one student in the parade of eighty students didn’t following the beat; there was a dangerous situation waiting for me as the poor guy who standing beside me became to a target and attracting the eyes of all instructors.

When the attack by “Yan Tsz Ching” from the all directions coming into the playground, the echo of effect with the time equation made them became a voice of ghost: “ you…you…you…are…are…are…the…the…the…son…son…son…of…of…”; at this critical time, the vice-class instructor of Q class was the first running to in front of my classmate, and said softly “attention...this is the shows...” during many of the instructors who had developed muscles with angry eyes hastily approaching in front of my classmate. And then the vice-class instructor changed his facial expression became to a wolf’s face, used his hands pushed the chest of my classmate, so that it lets my classmate moving backward; and a matching attitudes and sounds of “Yan Tsz Ching” with the series of action coming from the mouth of vice-instructor to extend greetings to the whole family of my classmate.

The actors were succeed in showing their abilities; the instructors who expected to come to give a punishment to the slow-moving classmate were stopped their foot, and enjoying the show during the vice-instructor showing evil expression to his student.

Perhaps, the reasons of the called curse from the instructors to the students were let the students who came from the normally family trying to learn how to accept an unfriendly circumstance; first of all to know how to react as encounter someone to treat them in awful, before they have abilities to treat someone with “foul language”.

Finally, I have known to need to change the channel in the different situations, and already have abilities to concentrate the three words “Yan Tsz Ching” into one word, under the intensive training of how to use “Yan Tsz Ching”.

“三字經”是要用心學習才可以應用自如。要多聽、多講、多練習，才可以恰切地在不同的場合配合不同的“三字經”融合感情和聲線對目標物造成剎那間的震撼！

    小時候，父親是一個大男人，沒有受過教育，但是在自己的印象當中，他沒有在家人面前說“三字經”，最激動的時候，也只不過說出一些“助語詞”不算是“三字經”。例如：“老虎蟹都要…！”

     媽媽雖然並沒有正式讀過書，但也會讀書寫字，自小家中都不容許孩子說“三字經”。在這種生活背景之下，一位十八歲的小朋友在警察學堂中的生活，每天從太陽升起開始，便不斷聽到各式其式的“三字經”從四方八面走進耳朵裡，不自覺便會在腦海中自行創造出適合自己運用的“三字經”！
       當時Q班的正副班主任都是懂得“轉台”的警務人員。在課室和宿舍內不會“爆粗”，只會在公眾場合，對外人稍稍表演一下自己是如何嚴厲的對待學員。
       這種在公眾地方的“爆粗”表演，目的就是在緊急的關頭，避免其他教官多管閒事，不讓自己的學員受到外人的(問候)。
        記憶中，有一次在大操場上同期男學警會操訓練的時候，站在自己身邊的同學，突然間“迷失太空”，對負責這次會操的教官“口令”反應過慢；因為是接近八十人的會操，某一位學警的遲鈍動作在八十人襯托之下特別顯眼；身邊同學的“迷失太空”頓時成為了眾教官的焦點，站在他身邊的自己，也意會到了一種將會“殃及池魚”的感覺！
       當“三字經”開始從大操場四方八面罵過來的時候，在空曠地方所造成的回音以不同的時差激盪著：「你…你…你…老…老…老…！」就在這個關鍵的瞬間，多名粗手大腳的教官怒氣沖沖的急步走近同學面前的時候，副班主任便搶先一步走到同學身邊細聲說：「留心…做戲！」
隨後，副班主任立刻在臉上展示出豺狼的面孔，用雙手推撞同學的胸口，讓同學不停的後退，這套動作當然是配合語氣相若的“三字經”來(問候)同學的全家上下！

    這個小小的戲份成功了，本來打算要教訓這名動作遲鈍同學的其他教官，看到副班主任神情兇惡的表演，都停下了腳步來慢慢欣賞！

    或者，在學堂內教官對學員的叫罵，就是要讓出身正常家庭的學員去習慣被別人經常(問候)的環境，在未懂得用“三字經”去罵人之前，先行懂得被別人用“三字經”(問候)要如何反應！

    結果，在密集的“三字經”訓練之下，自己亦學懂了在不同的環境需要轉到不同的台號，同時亦把“三字經”濃縮成為“一字經”！