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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