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Positive Self-development for Sport and Life: Kung Fu Fight
When one thinks of martial arts, one is immediately taken to feudal Japan or China, where
combatants soar through the air with the greatest of ease, trying to take their opponents
down with a dizzying array of kicks, punches and throws that no mere human seems capable
of performing. While these are some examples of Hollywood’s influence on its audience,
people may tend to believe that these types of martial combat is an area of expertise limited
only to Asians, or at least to those who have been training almost from birth.
Martial arts, however, is a very beneficial type of exercise that strengthens the body and,
more importantly, strengthens the mind. Karate, judo, kung fu, taekwondo, and hapkido are
just some of the different areas found within martial arts, each with their own specialties in
offense and defense. This makes interested participants more able to choose the type that
they prefer the most. All of these martial arts techniques, however, share certain common
elements; they teach that, in order to successfully improve the body in order to attack and
defend against possible enemies, it is necessary to improve the mind as well.
Many martial arts contain levels that indicate how well a student has progressed and achieved
certain disciplines and techniques. Most neophytes start out with the white belt, and the
highest belt that most can receive is the black belt. Receiving these belts do not just mean
that you have successfully mastered certain areas of fighting that allows you to proceed into
the next level; receiving a belt is also indicative that you have also achieved a certain state of
mind that enables you to learn the next level.
Martial arts also offer not just the means by which to disarm or injure an opponent, but life
lessons and skills that would aid its students in life. Discipline and strictness is observed
during study, so much that you are only allowed using these techniques against another
person if made in self-defense. Martial arts encourage a certain way of thinking, much like the
bushido code followed by the samurai centuries previously, or the oaths that every shogun
must make to their daimyo lords.
Additionally, every stance and kata comes with a certain mindset that the student must have
to successfully carry them out. The traits of discipline, respect for oneself and for other
people, self-confidence and self-worth, and the knowledge that they should always stand up
for what they believe is right, is just one of the many values that are taught in classes.
Students are not only taught the ways by which they are able to fight an enemy, but they are
also taught when and why not to fight at all. Being able to fight does not always mean that
they should fight, and all martial arts further ingrain into their pupils the reasons why.
To become a master of any martial arts expertise takes a considerable number of years to
attain. During this process, students learn a number of important life lessons that they can
incorporate not just within classes, but also in their lives. They can learn that they should do
something not because it feels good, but because it feels right; that they should learn a
particular value or discipline not because it is beneficial to us, but because it is beneficial for
the greater good; and that important lessons crucial to how we interact well with one another
must always be learned regardless of whether we want to or not. There is a certain code of
ethics that comes with mastering any craft, and martial arts make great emphasis on that
fact. Martial arts doesn’t teach the means to attack or defend just to foster in the next
generation of bullies, but they encourage people to make better persons of themselves, and
this is a more mental than physical task in the long run.
When one thinks of martial arts, one is immediately taken to feudal Japan or China, where
combatants soar through the air with the greatest of ease, trying to take their opponents
down with a dizzying array of kicks, punches and throws that no mere human seems capable
of performing. While these are some examples of Hollywood’s influence on its audience,
people may tend to believe that these types of martial combat is an area of expertise limited
only to Asians, or at least to those who have been training almost from birth.
Martial arts, however, is a very beneficial type of exercise that strengthens the body and,
more importantly, strengthens the mind. Karate, judo, kung fu, taekwondo, and hapkido are
just some of the different areas found within martial arts, each with their own specialties in
offense and defense. This makes interested participants more able to choose the type that
they prefer the most. All of these martial arts techniques, however, share certain common
elements; they teach that, in order to successfully improve the body in order to attack and
defend against possible enemies, it is necessary to improve the mind as well.
Many martial arts contain levels that indicate how well a student has progressed and achieved
certain disciplines and techniques. Most neophytes start out with the white belt, and the
highest belt that most can receive is the black belt. Receiving these belts do not just mean
that you have successfully mastered certain areas of fighting that allows you to proceed into
the next level; receiving a belt is also indicative that you have also achieved a certain state of
mind that enables you to learn the next level.
Martial arts also offer not just the means by which to disarm or injure an opponent, but life
lessons and skills that would aid its students in life. Discipline and strictness is observed
during study, so much that you are only allowed using these techniques against another
person if made in self-defense. Martial arts encourage a certain way of thinking, much like the
bushido code followed by the samurai centuries previously, or the oaths that every shogun
must make to their daimyo lords.
Additionally, every stance and kata comes with a certain mindset that the student must have
to successfully carry them out. The traits of discipline, respect for oneself and for other
people, self-confidence and self-worth, and the knowledge that they should always stand up
for what they believe is right, is just one of the many values that are taught in classes.
Students are not only taught the ways by which they are able to fight an enemy, but they are
also taught when and why not to fight at all. Being able to fight does not always mean that
they should fight, and all martial arts further ingrain into their pupils the reasons why.
To become a master of any martial arts expertise takes a considerable number of years to
attain. During this process, students learn a number of important life lessons that they can
incorporate not just within classes, but also in their lives. They can learn that they should do
something not because it feels good, but because it feels right; that they should learn a
particular value or discipline not because it is beneficial to us, but because it is beneficial for
the greater good; and that important lessons crucial to how we interact well with one another
must always be learned regardless of whether we want to or not. There is a certain code of
ethics that comes with mastering any craft, and martial arts make great emphasis on that
fact. Martial arts doesn’t teach the means to attack or defend just to foster in the next
generation of bullies, but they encourage people to make better persons of themselves, and
this is a more mental than physical task in the long run.
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