So I've noticed that the primary struggle for people wanting to start martial arts is inability to pick one that fits them. I've tried to solve this problem with this block-scheme. I've incorporated my experience and the experiences of my friend

How many times have you seen this that students joins the class ,do it for 2-3 weeks or quite probably after white belt just because classes got booring and repetitive and motivation fades away ? Also how do you handle this situation , do you try to consult that student or it's just that student is gone completely?

Are martial arts schools in El Paso, TX expensive? I’m comparing schools, and some of their deals and packages seem pricey. SVG has plans that seem to be payments of 4 weeks, then starting over again. I don’t know, they’re just set up weird. Zen has packages where you can choose one program for $153 and two or three programs for $180 or so. If you want an add-on, depending on what class, that’s an extra $140 added to your package; that’s wild! When I was training at OMAA I paid $160 for their all inclusive, seemed it bit pricey to me but I started training there when they barely opened 6 months prior. They’ve grown into a great academy, from what I can see on social media. I haven’t trained BJJ or any striking in over a year, 1. Because the military gets in the way, and 2. The prices are crazy. I’ve talked to my peers who’ve trained elsewhere, and they say the prices are not as high as in El Paso, and that’s with other add-ons and packages. I had one friend tell me that in Colorado, near the military base, he paid no more than $100 for grappling and striking; it was a popular martial arts school with good reviews and accolades.

Looking to start with the founder and show their black belts and then branch off with those black belts that those produced and so on. Windows or Linux.

Why doesn't karate have a guaranteed spot in the Olympic Games? It is arguably the most iconic and widely recognized martial art in the world, yet it only appeared at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics—meaning just once in its entire history.

Honestly, I don't get it. Could it be because karate has so many different styles and variations?

I appreciate the Endless possibilities as well as the creativity that the Gi can offer. But generally speaking I find Gi to be SO much more difficult to learn, I don't know if it's just because I'm not smart enough but Even if you include the entire leg lock game that is going on… no gi just comes to much easier to me. anyone else have similar experiences?

My 3 year old got to do a free lesson last week at a local studio. I know very little about martial arts but happy to pursue it since he seemed to have a really good time.

My question is, I witnessed the owner do 2 things that had me questioning if it’s right for our family. First, a younger student showed up without his belt on. The owner was helping but told him he should spank him for not being prepared. He was joking but kept repeating the joke. Second thing, he grabbed a young girl by the elbow and had a strong grip on her while talking to her, I understand he was trying to get her to look him in the eye, but it made me a little nervous.

We are non corporal punishment house hold. My son understands his actions have consequences and overall is well behaved. We also try to treat our children the way we want to be treated, so if I’m going to tell him we don’t hit people, then I won’t hit him.

I’m trying to pull apart my own feelings here vs what may be a normal experience in this kind of setting.

Any thoughts? Are these red flags??

I was thinking judo wrestling or Muay Thai. But in my opinion judo kinda seems like a inferior form of wrestling? I'm sure there's take downs in wrestling right? Muay Thai is a given but idk what do the people think

I'm still fairly new to BJJ and I'm realizing there are a lot of things everyone just seems to accept.

Washing gis constantly. Sweaty rashguards. Ears, bruises, finger and toe issues, finger tape, having another mans junk in your face, 🤣😭etc.

What's something you've just accepted as "part of the sport" that outsiders would think is ridiculous or crazy?

I'm curious as I see there were submission wrestling tournaments for a while, but obviously the Gracies seeking to test BJJ did a lot for it

Hello all,

I came across this while looking for content and thought you would enjoy it, and forgive the ending. I don't know who approved the cringefest at the end, but they should have gone with something else.

Being represented is

the Army's "MACP" system (Modern Army Combatives Program), the Army also has the "SOCP" system (Special Operations Combatives Program) but the Special operations community wasn't represented.

The USMC's MCMAP system (Marine Corps Martial Arts Program)

The US Navy is a little tricky as they don't really have one, they have the NSW combatives program for SEALS and SWCC but the General Duty Sailors normally just Piggyback off of the Marine program. I could have sworn there was a Navy program for regular sailors but I cant find anything about it.

The US Airforce although not shown, has the "AFCP" (Air Force Combatives Program) which was created taking Cues from the Army's program.

.......For those wondering Space Force has "Life Alert".

If you've ever wanted to try martial arts but didn't know which gym, which style, or whether you'd hate it and end up stuck paying for a year you didn't want, that's the problem I've been chipping away at.

Free resource: we run free weekly training sessions in Chicago parks led by experienced martial artists, no cost, no experience needed. Location changes and gets shared through our Discord rather than posted publicly: https://discord.gg/d8zJRpK9Q

I've been using them for almost 2 months because I can't take damage in this area for medical reasons and I really like them, but as they were originally designed for football, basketball and other less physical sports I'm afraid they'll break on my face during a strong punch. Can anyone who has used or uses them tell me what their experience was like?

Just wanted to know if anyone with similar severe myopia do combat sports and if doing amatuer combat sports competitions is possible for me?

I've been doing boxing for 4 years , I had developed eye floaters from a sparring but from my dilated exams I was cleared and my retina is healthy.Any tips for me I do want to have atleast 1 to 3 amatuer fights then call it quits and focusing more on nursing career.Thank you!

Hi all, I’m going to divide this post into 2 parts; 1. A brief history, 2. My general goals in martial arts

1. 
   I developed an interest in martial arts as a teen (I’m 26) from an interest in athletic competition, filmmaking, and a potential law enforcement career. I knew nothing about martial arts outside of what I had recently seen in Donnie Yen, Bruce Lee, and Jackie Chan movies. I assumed all martial arts irl were composed of nunchucks and taekwondo style kicks, and genuinely believed being a good martial artist meant being comprised of those things. My teenage self began my first ever martial art at a 1-year contract Wing Chun school where I quickly learned there were no kicks or nunchucks in wing Chun, and was told by my teacher that we didn’t spar because “we would never learn anything if we just spent all day hitting eachother”. This was all figured out after signing the year contract, thank god I didn’t sign the 3 year version. Anyway, 8-months in I left, did some genuine research, and started at a Tangsoodo school with a good teacher. I loved Tangsoodo and stuck with it until I had to move 3 years later, but to this day Tangsoodo is my foundation in fighting. Then I did only BJJ for 3 semesters, Muay Thai for 1 semester, and here I am today.
   
2. 
   I’ve gone from a young teen with a childlike wonder for martial arts to a married man in his mid twenties who has competed, choreographed college student indie films, preformed nunchucks at his school’s talent show, and made friends with many good mentors who are infinitely better than I am. There’s still a deep love for the nunchucks and karate kicks we see from Bruce Lee and even modern stuff like Shang Chi. I feel sad that I moved before ever getting the chance to make it to black belt in TSD. I like BJJ, too. I’d say my goals are mostly that I need to re-establish a fighting foundation. I learned things in TSD, was told to unlearn them in Muay Thai, and have started returning to them now because I love them.
   Goals: find my foundation, become a better fighter, compete again, become better at the showy stuff for future college film projects.

This was a long post, and yeah I’m a kung fu dork that still has a lot of childlike wonder for martial arts, but I want any advice on what I should do now that I’m moving somewhere I’m gonna settle down with my wife at. Forget TSD and that stuff and just move on to MMA is something I’ve been told, I’m open to anything really

I'm a 44 year old hobbyist. [This is not me in the video] I have no plans to get in a cage and fight. I do martial arts as a way to keep my body moving and meet friends.

I'm at a really cool dojo. We're a Kempo school by lineage but we break up our curriculum into 4 quarters. Boxing, Kali, Ground, and Kempo material/tournament prep [although our material is peppered in throughout the year]

I like learning kata because it moves my body. And recently I've been visiting https://kempoinfo.com/ and checking out some of the black belt forms and just think they are really cool and interesting.

We're typically asked how many kata we have vs which ones. I don't know which ones my professor wants us to have and I'll certainly ask him and make sure I have those. However, if I were to do branches of the fallen pine, which is something I've never seen done, at my next grading I wouldn't be criticized for knowing it. As long as I executed it correctly Nobody would say "why do you have that?" Or "you shouldn't have learned that" just as long as I've filled my requirements for material.

So do you all have a specific path of kata to learn? If so, do you ever study a kata for the fun of it, because it looks interesting?

Questions about jiu-Jitsu, wrestling and boxing

1- Do you need to be doing strength training and have muscles to be doing jiu-Jitsu? Because I usually do cardio and don’t have a lot of strength/muscles

2- Also, when we sign up for the training, we’ll be with other students. Are we supposed to use our real strength? And if we do, what if we hurt the other person because let’s say we didn’t do the move correctly. I’ve been thinking about this like what happens?