Elysium

Ladies and gentleman and myriad of all kinds of beings, I am assuming there are a lot of you who are practicing a martial art. So I am wondering if I may hear your story? Which are do you hail from? How long has your journey been? How many arts have you gone through? That being said I am not interested in "my art is better than you" or "this won't work in streets" business, and I sure hope everyone who contributes are on same page. Me, regretably I haven't had experience in any, I should have joined one in my teens, its a shame. I will be enrolling in a Kyokushin dojo after this summer for sure. Long overdue.

Isn't that post-heaven qi only?

I would rather have no soul compared to writing this absolute bullshit.

Wasn't this one shot? Or maybe its very cleverly cut, I don't know.

What the hell is Psychic Sea?

I can't stand incoherent string of words like this. Just say what do you want to say without the mystical (incoherent) part.

Oh man, to train in Motobu family's style is a raging boner for most Karateka. How was it like, if I may ask?

Nvm 🙂

This question is not for me but coming from an Islamic background, I have seen masturbation in a negative light for the most of the time (not that it stops me from it but the guilt). Even after years of quitting the religion I still have some programming from it. Impossible for me to sleep after a session unless I shower ASAP, for example.

@Maddie If you had to list one thing, what would that be on what I will write down below 👇 What was that one thing that held you (assuming there was one such thing) from transitioning, that you had to shed before commiting to your decision?

Glad someone else thinks so. I have tried to read it five times, some parts are interesting but that is all.

Any sources you could recommend to me?

Man I couldn't care less, I am a college student not a representator of LGBT community or last line of defense about traditional stuff. Its just dumb y'all are going on circles about whether somethings form is its nature or not. How many pages has it been the same argument? I don't know about gender stuff but this threads form isn't its nature anymore. If there is a way to mute it please let me know.

Here we go

This thread has long been turned from a QnA to one guy arguing with everyone. I am guessing now he is gonna argue about how he wasn't arguing so. 🥴

Wouldn't you be a victim therefore not go to hell if you were possessed

That indeed is so disgusting, can you send a picture of him so I can be more disgusted? ☺️

Damn right . Thank you for the encouragement. Thats amazing! Say, did the JKD you have trained in had its own identity, or was it just a mix of different arts? As a senior, how do you think your body and mind would do at your age without martial arts I wonder? Pleasure to learn from the experienced, and thank you very much

Internal arts do look awesome, I wish I could find a teacher for those. It seems unlikely where I hail from though.

I am hoping that de-escalating will be a lesson that is being taught there. I can see how this entire thing may get out of hand if I be a loud-mouth about this.

Well, I was interested in this even when a child, honestly can't figure out why I did not join in anything all these years. Another big reason is that I want to be able to have more control of myself & just discover what I am overall. Obviously meditation helps on that area, BUT.... I think you get the point. I suppose I would try kickboxing if I really wanted a brawl in street. But a fight that hasn't happened in the street is a fight I won. Everything is risky, needlessly so. Of course I do wanna defend myself however, I mean who doesn't? Man I don't know what to expect, I have to be honest. I don't have years of experience to spread wheat from chaff. Hopefully wherever I enroll will be good in quality with lots of pressure testing. That being said it looks like pretty much all of the traditional martial arts got watered down and got turned more sporty. I don't like that, so there will be some scholarly digging in future .