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Originally Posted by 47MartialMan  I am sorry, forgive my impertinence; Sure, I'm not completely self-taught. I have my fair share of orange belts from Karate, Taekwon Do, and Kungfu. Why don't I invest the time in these classes?
Answer: I practice martial arts to fight.
Not to pay an instructor to teach me about inner qi, discipline, and do stretching exercises for half the class, finishing off with a mock session in front of some hoity-toity judges to go up "a level".
I'm just not interested in the whole "culture" aspect of martial arts. Sorry. I want to hurt my opponents, not play barbies and have a tea party with them.
But yet you say; I practice it for the "fun" or "hobby" aspect.
So those others you had listed could not do the same, yet you hadnt the understanding or perhaps the qualified instructor/instruction of these? So you rather disco dance and kick to raegae? There is music martial art competitions all over.   |
I practice martial arts to fight meant:
I assimilate what I can from a specific martial art and utilize it for combat. Not practice the martial art itself. Diametrically however,
I practice capoeira as a martial art means:
I practice capoeira as a hobby, not to fight with.