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It teaches you about people and it broadens your horizons as a whole, encouraging you to do a thing that you may have not already tried.Ī quote from Mark Twain 13, states that what one must do is “Eat a live frog every morning…”, this is nothing to do with protein or a weird bent that he had. More than this, martial arts are not just a way to get fit, physically and mentally. Now, some of the confidence aspects, would be associated with any sort of physical training and body improvement, but martial arts includes far more than just an improvement due to the diverse nature of its structure. Below I have marked these areas as a diagram (See figure1.0), in which I have included where they relate in training and where they relate in the outside world as a whole. It helps and gives us proficiency in a number of areas. Physical training, especially training in the martial arts, helps us to develop systems to steer away from this primitive response. This is a psychological term for the ‘fight or flight’ response, we all have it, but some have shorter triggers than the rest of us. Your mind, your brain indeed is set to a very Reptilian Response 12, by this I don’t mean you are a gecko. In this a touched briefly on the mental benefits of martial arts and something, we will grow further in this discussion. You will remember, or if you haven’t then go read my blog Animus. Not only do you build up your own mental strength, this can also giveback to you in ways that you wouldn’t imagine. Placing yourself in the right frame of mind, but it is not all one way. It is the reason that boxers/ MMA 10 fighters have time before a fight, it is part of the samurai’s morning ritual 11. It can be a question of training your mind and your body equally.

How many times have you had a bad sparring match or training session, because you were not in the right head space? I’m sure you can answer this question easily. Their cohesive relationship is all important in any training, but it is one people often forget about. The reason I like to use his quote is, well he understood, he understood that a lot of what are deemed the martial arts : Boxing 4, Kenpo 5, Krav Maga 6, Tang Soo Do 7, Defendu 8, Vale Tudo 9, the list is endless, are as much about the mind as they are about the body. Not because he was one of the greatest samurais 2 in the history of Japanese culture, not because he would defeat people with little more than a bokken 3, against live steel. And yes, guilty as charged, I am massive fan of his teachings and literary writings. Yes, for the meticulous amongst you, you will know that the owner of my quote above has cropped up before in the space of my blogs.