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Originally Posted by Little Dragon 117  hello my fellow teen warriors.
i havent posted in a while, wayyyyy to busy these days but i just want to say something that has already been said before....so let me acknowledge something.
today, my ex girlfriend showed me a text message that her friend doesnt like me. idk why he doesnt, and since i find it senseless to not like someone if you dont know them, i ended up getting angry at the guy because he doesnt know me yet he hates me.
im going to try and talk to him and see whats up after spring break but this is just a pointless story
my real topic is how showing your martial arts (showing off or just practicing with no intention of boasting) can get you in trouble.
so today i was talking to my frined and she tells me about how some guy thinks he can kick my butt. now i dont know this guy at ALL, but he suddenly thinks he can beat me?
im 99% sure that he has either seen me practicing or he has seen my myspace page, decorated with bruce lee and martial arts vids.
so fellow green kids (thanks MM47) what do you think?
what i am trying to get at here is that going around doing your MA can get you in trouble because i dont know what to do with these guys, and yet they both want to kick my tail.
maybe because they think i am a Martial Arts poser, or maybe they think that they can beat my martial arts, idk. |
Well, I tended to try and stay out of this section, but since my name came up, I have to respond.
Indeed, anytime someone realises that you practice martial arts, opens opporunity for them to bash, ridicule, or become offensive to a point of them thinking either the martial artist is no good, or they are better.
This is the same for those who walk around in public with their uniforms.
Though the above would seem to be one looking to display thenselves like a peacock, it is no wonder they would receive certain reactions.
However, does this mean to become a paranoid hermit and live in the shadow of intimidation?
If a soccer player can walk around after playing soccer without smirks, ridicule, and offensive boasts directed, why should it be that towards martial artists? (Hmmnn-I understand this, but do some of you)
Avoidance is always the key.
Avoiding ex's is the bigger key.
It doesnt matter what people think of you.
Words are just words.
But if someone should physically attack, then the "game is on"