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I know exactly what you mean when you say "It gives you a goal". The second I started Martial Arts I put an imaginary "wanted poster" on the Blackbelt there. He was the guy I wanted to be better than. Don't get me wrong though, he and I are pretty good friends too.

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Assholes start fights, and sometimes assholes know martial arts. The martial arts does not make them violent.

Oh, and I've taken Jujutsu for the past ten years. I now instruct a few lessons.

took me a while but i can finally post. i agree, martial arts makes you better and smarter, and also helps a person understand the human body. I've realized in Tae Kwon Do a long time ago (about 1. yr ago) that you can easily break an arm with just a hand. (and the shoulder) that's pretty much the reason why the disciplined martial artists dont' attck anyone unless defending someone or themselves.
Those who attack first probably.....
A) needs anger management
B) are doing it to showoff or to get attention
C) because they have not been discilpined
D) they lived in a community, or still do, where tahy have to street fight to defend themselves and can't tell wrong from right anymore because violence has brainwashed their minds
and/or other things that i can't think of that others might be able to think of.

there are reasons why people are who they are now wether it's physical, mental whatever! If this keeps going, the conversation will go back to Why are people so violent? or something like that. alot of things can do that.

i love martial arts and my goal is to become a black belt! ^_^

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Fighting is an art of it's own. Everyone has a different way to do it. You may be taught to do it one way, but you'll always add some changes, to make it your own. One way of fighting can't be better than the other. It's the fighter ["It's not the car, it's the person behind the steering wheel"]. Although, about the smarter thing: It makes you smarter in ways. You'll know how to handle situations properly. You'll know when to hold back, and when to let it loose. You're reaction time is faster; which means you're brain is working faster. I myself am not a big fan of fighting. It is a last resort for me too, but, if someone tries to harm me or anyone I care about, I am not going to hesitate for a second, to kick their @$$ =P!

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During a fight you don't have time to think. You think, you get beaten down. You have to have planted the knowledge into yourself, as to know what to do without thinking. What I meant was, try to harm me, I'll just mearly beat you down enough to end the thing. Try to harm someone I care about, you better be prepared for an a**-whooping of a lifetime.

Like I mentioned on the first page, one Martial Art might focus on grappling. Another might focus on striking. The more styles you'll know, the harder to touch you become [If you have the will].

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the TKD class i go to is more into the forms or poom-se. like a dance of kicks and blocks, in a funny way os saying it. Also, i do I like the way of fighting in martial arts, i'm just not good at it at all, which i know those who are more into the fighting will say it's a disgrace for me to not be able to sparr or fight, but don't say that i'm not trying to get better. I've been interested into karate or nijistsu lately, but i don't have the money to do all i want to do right now and i'm not gonna give up in TKD becasue i've gone too far to quit and it would be a disgrace on my promise to myself and my Mom that i will never give up again! (long story shortened by A LOT!!!!) yeah, martial arts is viewed by many different people in many different ways, such as a type of art or style of fighting. one thing i know is that many people join for defending others and ourselves.

I beleive that in martial arts you don't have time to think, and if anyone is good at martial arts, they won't need to think to attack, defend or counter attack someone. thinking about it will take too long and it only takes half a second for someone really good to make a strike!

It does help a person learn to fight, but in order to fight, a person must learn. Learn how to kick, block, punch, controll, balance, agaility whatever! no one ever stops learning at anything. Constantly i am learning about martial arts, the history of it, how to teach it, how to do it, etc.. this is what i beleive and this is what i will stick with untill something comes up.

what ya'll said, if anyone DARES to pick a fight with a friend of mine! i will defend them wioth all my might(There i go talking bigger than i should be). That there is my motivator in training and getting better at sparring and fighting.

P.S.-what martial arts do ya'll take? and what you think about it because i would like to try out other types to see which i like better. so far i've been interested in karate and ninjistsu, i just need to know what training they do.

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It is not better to train badly in multiple arts, or train at multiple bad arts, instead of one good art.

I have done other styles too. They just suck and didn't teach me anything worthwhile.

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I'm saying all that I have said from the determination and will I bring into Martial Arts. I know what you mean. Some people just barely survive it, while they are goofing off and not even interested. People like me on the other hand, are working our @$$'s off, and we're sore for a while. The results are worth it though.

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