What impact has your martial arts training had on your personality

Question

What impact has your martial arts training had on your personality

Answer 1

It made me more confident.

Answer 2

It has helped me gain absolute control over my emotions, especially anger.

It also is there for me whenever I need to disappear from the world for a while. I can just start doing a kata and looking for interpretations and the rest of the world disintegrates around me. (that's when I'm alone, if I'm with people I can teach them or learn something)

Answer 3

Well, Martial Arts made me really uptight so a buddy of mine suggest I start smoking weed and now all I do is sit on my couch, smoke weed, eat cheetos, and watch Animal Planet. So I think Martial Arts really helped me.

Answer 4

The spiritual aspect of the arts changed my personality. I no longer just survive, I now confidently go about communicating with others regardless of their moods. Such contact with others opens a more peaceful atmosphere in my surroundings. Unless someone want to play Chuck Norris and I have to Bruce Lee his butt.

Answer 5

I studied Krav Maga for over three years and it had a significant influence on me.  The physical and emotional challenge pushed me further than I thought possible.  I took that discipline and applied it to other areas of my life - work, relationships, and even grad school.  I found confidence in myself which others had always seen, but I had never felt.  And even knowing the ability I had gained as a fighter made me emotionally strong enough to walk away from a fight, unless physically threatened.

Martial arts has had a huge impact on my life.

Answer 6

It made me respect others more and it contributed greatly to the control of my bad temper .

Answer 7

It's made me realise how fragile the human body is and how easily anyone can be maimed or killed, these days I walk away if my aggressor will allow me to, other than that I will defend myself as my life depends on it. Anyone stupid enough to test me deserves anything they receive.

Not boasting ,just stating fact, best wishes :)***

Answer 8

It's made me tougher and more confident at most.  That was after I reached black belt.

Answer 9

As a kid I did TKD and some Karate and it really boosted my confidence and physical dexterity, In school I would stick up for other kids who were picked on because I felt that i could make a difference. This came back to bite me a few times, but I never gave that up. The only bad thing about TKD and Karate is that you can practice those your whole life and never realize that there are other martial arts in the world, so when I got older and started watching Kung Fu movies I wanted to learn more. As a result I have trained in 12 different martial arts including: Judo, Shotokan Karate, Wing Chun, Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Kendo, Tai Chi, Pa Qua, and Hung Gar. The times trained with each varied from 6 months being the lowest to currently training with today. One of the very first that I tried was Tai Chi, I still practice it today, and I feel that the benefit of Tai Chi is truly amazing. Aside from the well known health benefits TC gives its students a calm and collected mind, even in times of great stress and excitement (like a fight) this helped me to focus in class when I was younger. Also, though I had many years of training in TKD and Kenpo, TC developed a much higher level of dexterity within me, and as a kid I was always a bit clumsy. That clumsyness completely left me with TC training. I feel that every martial art gives its students some form of emotional and physical impact, but I must give a warning that with certain martial arts it is easy to get a negative impact. In my Krav Maga and Muay Thai classes there were a lot of students with short tempers and chips on their shoulders who felt that they were learning "a**-kicking" martial arts, and the teacher was actually very good! I think that with some MA's if a teacher does not actively DISCOURAGE this behavior then students can develop an aggressive sense. This is a trend I have seen with a lot of MMA fighters as of late, because the majority of students sign up so they can be like the UFC fighters: tough and violent. They are not training for actual self defense or for appreciaton of the art. Also, MMA lacks history and tradition, being an amalgamation of different arts together, there is no code of honor or rules for behavior with MMA students. So, yeah, kinf of a rant there, but that is how martial arts have affected me.

Happy Training!

Answer 10

Throughout my life, I have trained in several different disciplines. I was a wrestler in high school and college. After that I became very interested in muay Thai. and I have some minimal training in bjj.

I have always been taught by my teachers, to respect my opponent. Respect is and always has been a key factor in any of the arts that we now call MMA.

If you look at the pratictioners of MMA, you will find that they tend to be well educated, well spoken gentlemen. Compare that to boxing. Boxers tend to be uneducated, trash talkers that really have no relevance to the world, other than their ability to box. There is no discipline there. No understanding.

Martial arts, in all of it's forms, teaches you respect, self control and empathy.

These are the qualities that I find most important in my life, and I have gained and strengthened these qualities through my training.

In addition, once you can be successful in an art as difficult as say, Muay Thai, it also makes you realize that you truly are capable of overcoming any obstacle you find in your way. You realize you truly are able to achieve in goal.

I can't say enough about the positive influence MMA has had on not only me, but my son, and the rest of my friends and family as well.

Thanks.

Answer 11

It makes me want to beat up everyone i hate and love.

Answer 12

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