subject: Three Things You Have To Do To Study From Martial Arts Dvds [print this page] . You can learn hard core self defense, fighting karate, classical gung fu combat techniques. You can learn virtually any art, there are judo dvds, taekwondo DVDs, you can even look into martial arts DVD rental!
Before you buy that Kung Fu training DVD, however, and start doing the Tito Ortiz all over the place, there are three things that you absolutely must do. It really is crucial, and your success or failure will depend upon these three things. Indeed, without doing these three things you might just as well put aside your martial arts DVD training.
The first thing you have to do, and this is incredibly basic, is you need a place to study. Even if you don't have a personal Shotokan training hall, or a taekwondo dojang, or a Kung Fu kwoon, you must conduct yourself as if you do. You have to select a location in which to train and really make it look like a fighting dojo.
You need to clear out the bric a brac, not just stack it in the corners, because you are going to want to hang shiny kung fu weapons on the walls. You are going to have to check the stability of the rafters, because you are going to want to hang a kicking bag and not break the roof! You are going to want about 15 by 15 of cleaned out floor space, because you want to be able to execute Choy Lay Fut patterns or work on your shotokan karate kata DVD without tripping on things or stepping on anything.
The second thing you will need to have is a good slice of time. I know this sounds silly, but industry survives, people learn things in school, everything on the planet runs by being in the right place at the correct time. So you are going to need to set aside a couple of hours on regular days, whenever you plan to train, and you are going to have to never miss an appointment!
Your wife wants you to take her to the store...no! The kids are going to have to entertain themselves. And turn that darn cellphone ringer off!
Now, you have the time and the place, and one would assume you have the latest and greatest martial arts video training tape (my favorite is Matrix Karate...it was inexpensive, but the data on it was worth ten tapes), and you must not forget...your partner! You need to have somebody who is willing to do the sweat, put in the time, make the appointment, and wants to have a blast! In a way, your martial arts training partner is the most important thing of all, because without a real body to practice your kung fu techniques on it just won't get real!
Now, you know the steps you have to take, and I want to say one thing: past the cost of cleaning your garage and a few Parker Kenpo videos, this is virtually free martial arts training. You go at your own pace, no one to push you past your comfortable learning speed, nobody to slow you down. And that's my take on how to learn from Martial Arts DVDs.
