Learning to Fight

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I was the oldest of two boys which means I didn’t have a big brother to call on if I got into trouble with other guys in the neighborhood that were bigger, but my brother had me and the guys he wanted me to whip in most cases had bigger brother’s. Which most of the times were already looking for me because of what he had said I would do to them for picking on my little brother? Now that I think about it not wanting to be considered a coward I guess I fought subconsciously knowing it was better to lose a little fight then to start a war I knew we could not win. I came for a single parent home and felt certain things mom didn’t need to know or I would be grounded from the few places that I was allowed to go. My mom move us to Orange Mound when I was fifteen years old , so it may have been a little different if we would have lived there from the beginning, because we would have been a part of the neighborhood and would have had close friends there, instead of being the new kids on the block. So therefore I always wished I was build like Mr. Universe and knew judo or karate. I would often day dream about being able to win against all odds because I was able to master the superior form of the martial arts. And I would sometime wonder where this style of fighting originate and why, maybe it was for the same reason that I had. With that being said, still today bigger and stronger people are taking advantage of smaller and weaker ones. It may be safe to say that more women are learning self defense techniques more than ever before. And knowing these skills can be an equalizer as seen in the Bruce Lee and David Carradine, (who just reason departed this life); movies’ which helped turn the martial arts into a trend during the 197...

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...to be older than mankind itself. It is also said that it’s virtually impossible to trace hand and foot fighting to any single beginning.

So I guess we can or should be thankful that there is a system of fighting that has been created as an equalizer in order to help the under size or those that might be out number to have a chance of defending themselves from people that are thugs, bullies and others that we thought we knew. And now we know that there are many styles of martial arts to choose from and that one is not superior to the other. Thanks to you our instructor we can just choose a style that we as individuals feel comfortable with.

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Instructor: Jonathan Border; PHED-1413 Self Defense 1 st term summer 2009-June 8th-July 10

The Origin and Development of Martial Arts: http/:www.itf-formation.com/information 14.htm

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