Martial Arts Scholarship Essay

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Throughout our lives, we are taught to overcome everyday endeavors, and the way we deal with our problems is what makes us unique. The way I have learned to overcome my difficulties is with my relationship to mix martial arts. Mix martial arts has helped me grow and hone my skills as a student and a person. As I first began I would have never believed that this new sport would be a part of me for the rest of my life. On my first day of class I was thrown and slammed across the mat by other children ranging from six to twelve years old. It felt degrading being nine years old and seeming like the worst student there. My father desperately tried to enlighten me that, “ It's only going to get better from here, that I should not give up, and to at least continue training for couple more months to truly know how I feel about it.” So I did so, and to my surprise I felt my skills beginning to grow and I even started to enjoy sparring with other students who were a …show more content…

During the day of the competition my stomach was in knots, as if my inside were ready to break loose, a clear sign that anxiety has taken over my body. At the end of the day I won my first match, but lose the second. I felt like a complete failure, that all my training and hard work were for nothing. One of my instructors had realized that I wasn’t taking the loss too well, so he sat down next to me and said, “ What do you expect you’ve only been practicing hard for a couple months, to become the best you can be you have to look past the bad days and continue to train to your absolute limit.” So I took his advice and stuck with it, slowly but surely I progressed from community tournaments, to state, then national, until finally I earned the title of world champion. I continued holding the title for about two years until it all had to come to an unprecedented

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