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Originally posted by playa
well i think learning a martial arts to learn how to "fight" or defend yourself is the wrong reason to do it,,
i haven't been in a fight since i was in 7th grade,,
some confidence and a stern voice can go along ways
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I already know how to fight. I haven't been in a fight since I was 23 and I'm 31 now. However, I get into numerous altercations around here. It isn't about learning how to fight. It's about knowing how to open up a whole can of whoopass on someone. It's about breaking someone's leg at the joint at will. It's about snapping a muthafucka's neck if you have to. The confidence and the stern voice goes a long way. It also helps that I'm a somewhat large dude and I'm rarely challenged. But if you're in a situation where you're confronted with a drunk lunatic, a stern look is just gonna get your ass whooped. It won't even phase a psychopath.
Plus you're in your twenties or early thirties yourself. Do you think that your "stern voice" is gonna pass on some young punk when you're 45?
I also have a family and I've been in all kinds of situations with ignorant muthafuckas through the years trying to test me over that shit. I want to be able to go in for the kill without expending too much energy.
I also travel to other countries and I'm almost always put up to some physical test of strength between myself and the natives. All over the world, they think we have big dicks and are unusually strong. And with this comes physical challenges from natives. I was in a dark back street in Lagos, Nigeria after I left a nightclub and someone came up to me and said, "Fuck You". But since he was smiling, I just smiled back at him. The hoe I was with told me when we got to the hotel that he was about to rob me. But since I was brave enough to smile back at him and say "fuck you" back, he left me alone. But I wasn't brave, I just didn't know any better.
Learning a martial art will help save my ass when I'm in some third world country and a drunk native pissed off at me. Along with some other things.