WHY DO YOU LOVE IT?: I get to converse with fellow martial arts nerds. I get to learn a bit more about other styles, how they train and their philosophies. I can glean some training tips, commiserate about gradings and injuries, talk about martial arts movies, books, and weapons. We even have a thread called “Celebrate Your Victories” where we can have a bit of a gloat and some back-patting. Seeing how furiously the group members train motivates me to suck it up, get off my lazy butt and go do some more push-ups.
DISCUSSION TIP: Don't be a troll. Simple, sage advice for young grasshoppers?
BEST RANDOM QUOTE: “A belt is nothing more than something to hold up your pants.”
MOST HEATED DISCUSSION THREAD: There is a stigma attached to martial artists; people tend to think we are an arrogant bunch, but in my experience in this group there are no such ass-hats. The most heated discussion I came across was over the value of belts as a way of ranking people within their relative systems. There was also discussion about using sharpened weapons versus blunt training weapons. I don't even know if you could classify those discussions as heated, more teasing really.
WHO’S WELCOME TO JOIN?: Any martial artists of any level and even the armchair martial artists enthusiast who doesn't feel the need to turn himself into a human punching bag.
Nahp
SUICIDEGIRL
Colombia
JUN 29, 2012 07:02 AM