Do you practice martial arts?
Do you practice martial arts?
What sort of martial arts do you practice in and why? Judo? Karate?
Educating yourself in self defence seems very useful especially if you live in parts of a country that might be rough.
I'd like to get into it myself but I can't hear well, I can lip read however. Did some boxing when I was very young but it was only practice on training bags : )
Kung Fu students and masters alike, let me know your wisdom!
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I did a few years of karate in high school but didn't get much from it.
Then, like 35 years later, I started training kickboxing. Did that for a couple of years. Got to the point where I enjoyed sparring, even if I wasn't great at it. Then the instructor changed the schedule so his classes started at 6am and I started training Judo and BJJ instead. I've been doing Judo for close to two years now, but stopped the BJJ when the instructor left town. I've learned enough Judo that I can usually recognize when someone is imbalanced enough to require minimum kuzushi and then execute a throw. I can't take down any of the black-belt instructors, but I can throw other blue belts and brown belts often enough.
As for why, I need a reason to exercise. I am not the kind of person who will head to the basement every morning and lift weights for an hour. But if I sign up for a class and there's a group of people who know me and expect me to show up and it's something I like doing then I will be there every time I can. It's called a commitment device, and joining a group is the commitment device that works for me.