Honestly, I don’t hink anybody here thinks that fights are beautiful and pretty. Ugly and Brutish 
Yep. Arrogance is the cause of many a downfall.
But confidence does tend to help you in the romance department. 
Yesterday I got a phone number and a movie date for next week.
Ryu
Man the girls near you must be easy…
Uh, I mean, you must be a great-looking guy
LOL!
Stop ruining my fun!
Ryu
Great thread everyone! I think this is deffinatly one of the most interesting threads I have read since i’ve been on KFO. Good Work DS!
Ryu, I really liked what you said in your first post, that was perfect. Good luck with your writting, I’d say your very good at it.
I really like a lot of martial arts movies. I think a lot of my friends like them even more. I keep most of my training to myself just because when I tell people that I’m very interested In martial arts they really take it the wrong way. Some people take it that i can’t fight at all which isn’t true and some people take it that I fight like jet li which also is very far from the truth. When I watch just regular old movies with my friend and there is a fight scene I’ll sometimes analize it and tell them how i would have done it in one way or another, just playng around with the idea. Now, they think I’m this crazy eye jab throwin’ knee cap kickin’ fighting machine. I am constantly reminding myself that actually getting into a fight is the last thing I want to do. Last night we were all out at a snowboard comp. and it looked like a few people might get into a fight . My friends all gathered around and started to get excited almost. At first I looked around at the people involved and got this little rush and thought for a second ‘Man, I could take these guys.’ But then I stoped myself because if there’s one thing I think a lot of people of thise forum have been able to say is that fights are brutal, un controled, and you never know what is going to happen. Anyone of those guys last night could have had a knife or a gun, or been a championship boxer. I’m not bruce Lee, and I can not take on ten guys at once, let alone one guy.
Hopefully i didn’t get to far off the subject. I think there have been some really great responses on this thread, keep it up! There are really a lot of smart people here. A lot of the things people have said really helps me to look at things from a more realistic perspective.
Glad you liked the thread.
I sometimes get comments like that. Some people laugh at me, asking why I waste the time on it. I throw the whole self-defence, fitness, confidence, argument and they say I should just do a sport.
I keep reminding myself that one day I will get into a life-threatening situation, and that it will help me. I got into a kind of situation on NYE [see Mr.Nemo’s thread], and without my training I would of reacted very differently, and probably backed down.
There’s alot of reasons for training, be it fitness, sport, fun or self defence…hell it can be all those things.
But when it comes to the self defence aspect, the training is all about trying to get your body to react a certain way and make that stuff you’re training become instinct…which is tough as most fights i’ve been involved in and seen…well, they’re typically messy affairs : ) that dont involve much thinkin’
Most people will never have to worry about those types of problems anyways, it isnt often that people get into a fight on the streets, especially once you’re out of highschool…
that is unless you’re just a trouble maker : )
Reap
I suppose. I love every aspect of training though.
Guess some folks just don’t get it.