Very cool that you’re a defense instructor. I do a lot of martial arts. I know it’s technically not the same thing but I enjoy this general realm.
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Becoming more important given so many rules about the other kind we are talking about.
It is part of the same thing. I specialise in home defence and martial arts is a big part. Every tool you have to defend yourself can fail so your best default is hand to hand
What style of martial arts do you all practice? I’ve been in taekwondo for roughly 13 years.
I’ve always wanted to try taekwondo.
I started with karate. Then boxing. Then muay thai and I just started getting into krav maga. I also have a Tai chi practice.
That’s great, I’m in a small town and Taekwondo is all that is here. But I am lucky that my instructor has been involved with Taekwondo for 40+ years. While things change with age, he has never compromised on the art. Not the pop up buy your black belt kind of place like so many seem to be now. I see more places that are designed to babysit and serve as after school care, than teaching martial arts.
NO SHIT!! We put my nephew in an ‘acclaimed’ school. 30 kids to 2 instructors. They didn’t learn anything
Yes it’s sad that so many schools are “sign this contract, pay your money, and you will get a back belt in x years.” We each more kids than adults. All students must learn in order to advance. We hold tests with multiple test board members and they must sign off on the tester for them to advance in rank. Our black belt exam is roughly 4-6 hours and is an old school test. You pay some dues to were a black belt from our school if you know what I mean. No one gets to observe any tests and must be a black belt to participate in giving tests.🤙🏻🥋👊🏻
That’s impressive. Mastery is always effective.
I took a few different styles but stuck with 2. https://targetfocustraining.com/ for the logistics and anatomy. And Krav - KMG branch. Krav was my goto and the most I trained because there was no sport fighting involved.
Tell me about your training