Total Karate- blog is wondering where are all the teenage boys since most of the participants in martial arts classes are girls and ladies.

You’d think that, in martial arts, we wouldn’t have much trouble getting lads interested in training. Not so at our club! Most of the junior students are girls, and about half the seniors are ladies.

Do young boys are really more interested in pumping iron to impress the ladies than learning the wisdom and techniques of marital art?

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting with the goal of gaining a dominant position and using joint-locks and choke holds to force an opponent to submit or be knocked out depending on what submission method is used. The art was based on early 20th century Kodokan Judo/Kosen Judo which was itself then a recently-developed system based on multiple schools of Japanese Jujuts.

There are three rules for a good jui jitsu by Eduardo, The rules are to train hard, eat right and sleep well. The aesopian-Brazilian jui jitsu elaborate

Diet is always important but especially when you’re an athlete (and that’s what you’ve become if you’re training hard). Nutrition is well researched and there’s a wealth of information out there. I’ll leave it to you to find what’s right for your body.

He also specifies why good sleep is needed and how good or bad sleep can affect your skills in combat. So if you are already good following the rules can make you great.

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The great thing about martial arts is that it has nothing to do with size or weight, on the contrary sometime being too big or being too tall can actually be a liability. In martial arts the way you think and move matters, the bigger your spirit is the bigger you are. At the last post of the Martial Views he talks just about that, our strength is in our mind and in our spirit, that is true not just in martial arts it can be implemented in almost any aspect in our life.

We are what we think. And as long as we’re thinking, says Donald Trump, think big and kick ass!

So start thinking big.

Martial arts classes are a great way to get the family together, having a common interest, all are sharing knowledge and exercises, sounds kind cool isn’t it? This father has 3 kids in martial arts classes that he is trying to get each one to he’s class on time, each kid and he’s class level of course.

what makes it easy on him is that he is not only sharing the love for martial arts with them he is all so sharing the same classes with them. It is nice to have a parent to look up to that is doing what you are doing, you should read how excited he is about it. 

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I’ve always felt that I should have done much more as a child. Sort of who nows where I would have been now if only I had the character, the patience and the perseverance that I try so hard to build now when I was little.

I saw on Aiki thoughts the test of Hanna at the age of five and felt a little envy. I was so stubborn as a child and so reluctant to invest too much effort into anything that I still have hard time today in everything that demands me not to quit through hard times.

I know that the what if thinking won’t get me anywhere but I guess that I just have to work harder now to overcome those places I escaped before.

I just wonder at what age have you started practicing?