Who doesn’t love Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan? High-paced action filled with cool moves, icons of the 70s and 80s their influence motivated people around the world to look into what it is to be a martial artist. Today we’ll be looking at 5 character traits that help you be a better human being along with the skills of self defence.
1. Discipline: To master the techniques perfectly and efficiently you need to be disciplined. If you have problems doing uncomfortable activities at a regular pace and want to bring some system to your everyday life then this is the perfect activity. This is also enjoyable for kids, as kids learn the value of discipline and can see their progress in the form of belts as they progress through the ranks by giving exams. Physical health is also influenced greatly by martial arts, it forces you to make changes in your everyday diet, eat healthily, and keep you active.
2. Resilience: Life is full of ups and downs, you need resilience to keep up with the cruel world, there will always be failure lurking behind each step you take but with a resilient character trait you overcome those shortcomings. Martial Arts forces this trait to be mastered because every day it is a task, a task to learn new techniques, a task to overcome sparring, and a task to get yourself through uncomfortable situations. The more you go through these tasks seriously the more you become more resilient.
3. Perseverance: Martial arts is hard, it needs both your mental and physical coordination to act in a specific and effective way. This means learning the systematic rules and skills in their truest forms and facing difficulties in each step, the value it teaches is to always expect to face hard challenges and to overcome them no matter what it takes. This skill is invaluable in life. Most bitter unsuccessful people are a by-product of low perseverance, they couldn’t push themselves through the hard parts of their life, which made them bitter, the skill of never giving up is mastered by a good martial artist.
4. Competitiveness: Martial Arts is practised in the form of competitions, no matter how localised or a Prizefight in Madison Square Garden, anxiety and fears are present for the competitors. And facing these fears each competition ignites a fire within the individual as he becomes more of a perfectionist, his will to win becomes stronger and his appetite to learn and grow is also widened. He starves for knowledge to become better than yesterday and when you examine the people at the top, all of them share a fierce competitive nature as martial artists.
5. Honour and Respect: Being humble goes hand in hand with the practice of martial arts, you won’t always be the master in the sparring sessions, you will get beat, humiliated, and humbled by people who are better than you, for some people this may lead them to quit, but the above-mentioned characteristics make them respect their opponent’s skillset and inspires them to become more skillful. Honour is everything in martial arts. Respect for your teacher, your fellow teammates, and your opponents grows almost instantaneously because you share a deep passion with everyone in a common sector. That leads to comradery and friendships that last a lifetime. A brash and outspoken artist rarely can grow as far as he can before his arrogance gets the better of him. Because to keep a mind eager to learn, you need to be humble.
So, think about these prospects, if you wanna learn new things, make your life operate systematically, and make some friends who will inspire you, then martial arts is the best avenue to do that. Get on Google and find the nearest dojo, it might become the best decision you make in life.
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Nazmul Haque Parthib
Intern,Content Writing Department YSSE.