Trouble explaining the lifestyle to friends and fam?

[Steel Accord]

On the contrary. I am extremely violent. I just choose when to employ it.

Oh, they don't assume I'm violent. It's a very subtle lock that hurts quite a bit. They simply assume I enjoy doing it to people. It might be the smile...

Forgive me. I was projecting a bit.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Ppl at work think I'm insane and are afraid of me.

Bill...that is pretty much how we view you on MT too

 

[Xue Sheng]

I don't talk about MS to anyone other than other Martial Artists. Some of my family know I have been doing it for years but there is little to no conversation about it. My wife has told her entire family I am martial arts crazy (and they are all from China) but I'm ok with all this. I do martial arts and I am happy about it, don't care much what others think...but I did get my youngest into it

 

[marques]

...Have you ever heard them either assume it's all about violence or merely a niche hobby?

I am happy if they understand it as "merely a niche hobby" and give me time for that without much trouble. They will not understand much, anyway.

"All about violence" is a label I don't like. I just like the ART of training. It could be gardening or music...

 

[Gerry Seymour]

I don't talk about MS to anyone other than other Martial Artists.

Don't bring your Windows woes here, tech man!

 

[Bill Mattocks]

I am happy if they understand it as "merely a niche hobby" and give me time for that without much trouble. They will not understand much, anyway.

"All about violence" is a label I don't like. I just like the ART of training. It could be gardening or music...

Why can't it be both? Art of violence.

 

[Steel Accord]

Why can't it be both? Art of violence.

Well, by the strict definition that is what they are. Martial, for usage in war or conflict. Arts, a medium of emotional, personal, creative expression.

 

[marques]

Why can't it be both? Art of violence.

Actually, MA is very much the art of violence. But needs the art side to be a martial art.
And art says better about me than violence alone. And it is less painful. So my focus on the art.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Don't bring your Windows woes here, tech man!

Sorry, got Windows on the mind, should have been MT, not MS...but since you asked....let me tell you about my current Microsoft problem...you see I have this PC and......

 

[Buka]

People today don't care too much. Seems like everyone knows somebody who does Martial Arts.
Most of the people around when I started are dead now. So they don't care much either.

I think the more difficult explanation might be why you stopped.

 

[Xue Sheng]

People today don't care too much. Seems like everyone knows somebody who does Martial Arts.
Most of the people around when I started are dead now. So they don't care much either.

Braggart

To paraphrase Muhammad Ali...You're a bad man....remind me to never train with you if that is how you treat the people you started with

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Most of the people around when I started are dead now.

You're as bad as Jessica Fletcher, man.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Well, by the strict definition that is what they are. Martial, for usage in war or conflict. Arts, a medium of emotional, personal, creative expression.

The Dance of Death, says I.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

LOL Bill...aren't we all a bit deranged in some manner?

Some more than others, I fear.

 

[Ironbear24]

I do and it has gotten to the point where I don't even try anymore. Most think it is just a hobby and a thing "I haven't grown out of." Some say I have an unhealthy obsession with it but honestly who are they to judge me?

I think they have an unhealthy obsession with watching television all day long and binge drinking, and pill popping but hey, that's none of my business.

 

[Danny T]

Most of the people around when I started are dead now...

I think the more difficult explanation might be why you stopped.

I think the more difficult explanation might be why so many who were around with you are dead now!

 

[Bill Mattocks]

I mean, doesn't everybody do bo kata in the backyard in a snowstorm?

 

[Steel Accord]

I think the more difficult explanation might be why so many who were around with you are dead now!

Don't ask questions you aren't prepared to know the answer to . . .

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Have you ever had any trouble explaining your study of the martial arts to friends and family?

Someone asked, "Are you still doing that chop chop stuff?" I said, "Yes." That was the end of that discussion.

You just don't play music for a cow.

 

[Steel Accord]

Someone asked, "Are you still doing that chop chop stuff?" I said, "Yes." That was the end of that discussion.

You just don't play music for a cow.

Very well put, but "chop chop stuff?" Seriously?