subject: Why do you need to train Mixed Martial Arts or any martial art [print this page] Why do you need to train Mixed Martial Arts or any martial art
The most important reason to study a martial art is the inherent balance it brings to living your life. The health, defensive ability, self-discipline and mental focus all become a part of the whole. Thus creating a more complete person in the end.
The draw the brings you in is the physical abilities displayed by masters. What keeps you in is the "oneness" that completes you as a person.
If all you study is the physical aspects of martial arts then you're missing the boat. The meditational and mental focus exercise aspects that are necessary to complete the study are the other half of martial arts, bringing the person to a state of wholeness as a bud becomes a flower.
Not to be melodramatic about it, but I study martial art because I see life as combat. Not necessarily just in the sense of physical confrontations where your aim is to overcome an attacker, but also mental and maybe to some extent spiritual conflicts where you must overcome obstacles such as fears, uncertainties, avarice, greed, hatred, etc. We all do battles each day of our lives in that sense. What better way then martial art that not only keeps you physically fit and tough, but mentally, too.
I also study it or more accurately continue to study it because I like the (for a lack of a better word) purity of purpose about the community of serious martial artists - we are ultimately searching for the truth. When you go toe to toe with a 250lb and 6'5" of angry bent on hurting you maniac, you better have done it right in your training. You better have seen the true way or you are toast.
I started training in Mixed Martial Arts training at first strictly for health reasons. I found I wasn't getting motivated and had no structure working out on my own in a gym.
After about a month I began to realize that physical gains were not the only gains I was making. Self confidence, the ability to focus, spiritual well being, were also fringe benefits. A few years of training and I now am trying to give back as an instructor. It is more than getting a but kicking or giving one. The benefits of self discipline and finding your mental and physical limits are mind freeing experiences. Few pastimes in life can match this in my experience.
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