Comments on: How Martial Arts Can Supercharge Your Man Spirit

By: James

James — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:08:27 +0000

Hi,
Really nice work! Your article is unique, informative, interesting and is captivating attention of the readers. You have emphasized on a good point (Martial Arts).

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:19:51 +0000

@ Stephen M.: Sure, it sounds great to have a kid be able to defend itself at a young age, but imagine you sending your Kid to a Martial Arts class at a young age — you may think it’ll like it, but probably it won’t, if you’re going to push it too much.

Just got the newsletter, in which I saw a Martial Arts article too, but Krav Maga is not really a Martial Arts, but more like a fast killing or much hurting defensive military thing.

Also I would describe the martial arts a little more. For example, that you don’t know how to block kicks in Boxing or in Taekwondo you use your legs a lot, and so on.
Muay Thai is a very agressive sport, street fighters use that, and Kickboxing a lot.
Judo is a lot about throwing people on the ground. Kung Fu is were it all originated from. I love it.
Anyways, try out some stuff.
Just look up all the many martial arts on wikipedia or something like that. Jiu Jutsu is good for ground fighting, too.

Cheers.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:54:33 +0000

Darrell — you should start doing Kung Fu. Until you’re a black belt you’ll need more than 10yrs. depending on how often you train and how your conditions are.
Kung Fu is not only kicking and hitting like you do in Muay Thai and generally the people that do Kung Fu aren’t going to piss you off, when you’re new to Martial Arts and join them.
I do Kung Fu myself.
Best thing I ever did, I have to say.

Best regards.

By: Arlito

Arlito — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:26:43 +0000

Interesting article! I’ve always wanted to get into martial arts.

By: Chieftain

Chieftain — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:17:05 +0000

Jim S, I have a great deal of empathy for your situation, in many ways. I am a big guy, I am not flexible and I’m slow-moving: not particularly elegant or capable of doing many of the showy, flashy martial arts moves. Yet nature has compensated: I have a cement head and if I hit something it gets broken to bits and it wakes up in a couple weeks time. But my very best weapon is between my ears, and my next best weapon is attached to my tongue. I can talk myself out of any fight anywhere without losing face. I have found this skill to be of immeasurable value as a Guardian Angel: being able to smooth things over before they get to blows. It could be that you, too, have this gift-of-the-gab. Speaking of which, have you considered volunteering as a Guardian Angel? You learn valuable, practical, street-worthy self-defense skills, as well as the gift-of-the-gab that I spoke of, as well as a whole bunch of other useful life skills — all for free. And you get to protect your community from crime. Why not check out our website at http://www.guardianangels.org and see if it is something that might work for you.