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actually i just read some of the other posts on here, and when we taught "MA" as people are calling it, we taught it as an all encompassing technique. In the dojo, off the dojo, the whole lifestyle thing, the lot. It wasn't about defending yourself, your partners or your loved ones, it was about avoiding that at all costs. It means if you are living in some shitty situation that you need or have to learn "MA", then you are in the wrong place. This isnt feudal 15th century japan or china. "MA" , god I hate that, it is not about fighting, or being better than others or anything that has so much confliction in it, thats why it has the word ART in it . It's about skill and training and perfection, if you think it means save me from MY ABUSIVE BF or KILLER DRUG BLOCK, or whatever then you are so so wrong. You sort that crap out first and look after yourself and your family by changing your habitat or your lifestyle. Every single minute you waste by learning some "style" you should be devoting it to moving or changing your life, you do that before you waste your time learning some poncey smacky facey crap just because deep down you really just want to be Song Jiang or one of his stupid (dead) 36 friends (google time).
then once you become safely middle class, you can become bruce lee ;)
P.S can't belive that after 6 years of being here, i've made 25% of my all time posts in one night
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