Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Real Martial Arts

I saw this idea on a martial arts forum and decided to clean up the idea and post here:

You do not learn martial arts.

You PRACTICE martial arts.

The martial arts are not a "bag of tricks that help you beat a superior foe." The martial arts are a training program that, if you follow, and train hard enough in, YOU will be the superior adversary. You will be harder to choke because many people will have choked you. You will be harder to hit because people will have hit you. You will get beaten so many times that you wont be afraid anymore.

Simply "learning a trick" wont do it. Want to learn to defend? Go to a real dojo with lots of sparring/rolling. After the first 20 or so hours of rolling sessions (which is nothing special), you will still be mostly a novice, but you will also be a different person. The experts in your dojo will be "destroying" you, but you will be so much better compared to non-martial artists.

Blood, sweat and tears are the secret to learning true martial arts.


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