First, you can't simply know about the True Martial Art, you have to know them. To know about is like thinking about, to know is to actually do. It is the difference between talking about the word 'wet' and jumping in the water.
Thus, if you talk to people about the martial arts, if you watch movies about the martial arts, if you read books about the martial arts, it doesn't work. The only thing that works is to actually find a teacher and learn them. To put on a uniform and step onto the dojo floor and find out how they really work.
Interestingly, they don't always work the way they seem to work in the movies. Bruce Lee may be incredible on the screen, but he had two arts, one was a movie art for the camera and creating the WOW in the audience, and the other was designed for combat. These two arts often don't even look alike, they are greatly different.
When you step onto the mat for the first time you will find you are entering a wonderful new world. You will have butterflys in the stomach, you will actually be a in a state of awe, and you won't know what to do. You will learn how to put on the uniform, bow, and how to conduct yourself in this strange, new world.
The fun starts when the instructor shows you your first moves. Everything you do is going to seem unnatural, weird, but it is really just unfamiliar. You'll do everything wrong, you'll even be confused by such simple concepts as right and left.
Eventually, you'll have copy catted your techniques enough, and you'll face a real opponent. Oh, Lord, you have to actually throw somebody to the ground, block somebody, hit somebody! How in heaven's name are you going to manage this without falling on your fanny?
Time moves along. You practice, and persist, and things start to make sense. The techniques and forms become understandable, approach second nature, and are even able to be applied in the great chaos of freestyle.
And you learn that the most important lesson of the dojo...you won't learn anything if you don't start. What's that old saying...a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And the single step you took, through the dojo doors and onto the mat, will end up being the most significant and important step you will ever take in your life, for this is the step that brought you discipline, good health, confidence, and the ability to take on and defeat any problem in life. - 16887
Thus, if you talk to people about the martial arts, if you watch movies about the martial arts, if you read books about the martial arts, it doesn't work. The only thing that works is to actually find a teacher and learn them. To put on a uniform and step onto the dojo floor and find out how they really work.
Interestingly, they don't always work the way they seem to work in the movies. Bruce Lee may be incredible on the screen, but he had two arts, one was a movie art for the camera and creating the WOW in the audience, and the other was designed for combat. These two arts often don't even look alike, they are greatly different.
When you step onto the mat for the first time you will find you are entering a wonderful new world. You will have butterflys in the stomach, you will actually be a in a state of awe, and you won't know what to do. You will learn how to put on the uniform, bow, and how to conduct yourself in this strange, new world.
The fun starts when the instructor shows you your first moves. Everything you do is going to seem unnatural, weird, but it is really just unfamiliar. You'll do everything wrong, you'll even be confused by such simple concepts as right and left.
Eventually, you'll have copy catted your techniques enough, and you'll face a real opponent. Oh, Lord, you have to actually throw somebody to the ground, block somebody, hit somebody! How in heaven's name are you going to manage this without falling on your fanny?
Time moves along. You practice, and persist, and things start to make sense. The techniques and forms become understandable, approach second nature, and are even able to be applied in the great chaos of freestyle.
And you learn that the most important lesson of the dojo...you won't learn anything if you don't start. What's that old saying...a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And the single step you took, through the dojo doors and onto the mat, will end up being the most significant and important step you will ever take in your life, for this is the step that brought you discipline, good health, confidence, and the ability to take on and defeat any problem in life. - 16887
About the Author:
Al Case has analyzed the martial arts for forty plus years. He offers Video Lessons at Monster Martial Arts.
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