Has your view of violence changed since studying Martial Arts?

Actually, yes it has. Maybe I am just getting older or maybe it is the realization how lethal and permanent some of the techniques can be and that you can take something you will never ever be able to give back no matter how much you want to.

I think it is supposed to go this way.

My view of violence changes as I learn more about martial arts.

One thing I have learned is that there are forms of violence that are not about physical force, but, what we do with words. Words are often the worst form of violence. When we use words to

a) insult, humiliate, demean, manipulate, abuse

b) create practices and policies that exploit others

c) cause conflict, chaos and death

we are doing far more damage than a pressure point strike ever could.

I would like to find a way for my training to help me against words. In some instances, it actually has.

in view that i grew to become into 8. i'm now 34 and that i've got studied some arts in that element, specifically Shotokan Karate, (which I gave up whilst i grew to become into 15) muay thai, Jeet Kune Do ideas, yet my pastime is the Fillipino Martial Arts. I carry a black belt in Doce Pares Eskrima and that i'm a team chief in canines Brothers Martial Arts.

I have a new sense of self preservation ever since taking martial arts. Before I started I would get into fights every week but I learned a new sense of self preservation.

Right now, I don't hate violence. I only hate unnecessary violence.

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Very much changed. I had this view of a duel situation where two people would call each other out and then fight honorably without weapons.

Now I know that most violence is one sided situation with the aggressor hunting for a victim for monetary or for their view of ‘social ladder’(impress their group or themselves). That using a weapon as an intimidation tool is much more effective in keeping me safe than using it for what it’s designed to do.(Although worst comes to worst it helps having a well designed weapon.) That I am only allowed to engage a threat only until I can start running away, and attacking any more than that would be considered an assault on my part.

In general self defense turned out to be a completely different animal.

The opposite happened to me, actually. I started studying martial arts at a young age, but wasn't given context for real-world violence until I was a young adult. At that point, I started to look at my martial arts training differently. For instance, we were always told that our movements in a real fight wouldn't be like they were in a kata (solo form), but were never taught what they WOULD look like. There was a time in my teens when I expected a real fight to look like the movies. Stuff like that really skewed my outlook. Then I started studying CCTV footage of fights, reading police reports, studying the works written by people who had actually spent years facing violence, and a lot of what I considered to be "valuable martial arts training" was altered. Real violence is dirty, in-your-face. It normally doesn't involve two guys squaring off. And under the stress of adrenaline, complex movements go out the door, while gross motor movements still work just as well. Expecting to hit a dime-sized target on someone's arm and expect them to go out is foolish in the context of the chaos of actual violence. Hard sparring and situational training is where theory meets reality. It wasn't until I studied real violence that I began to understand what parts of my training would translate best to that situation, and what parts needed to be re-examined, or cast off entirely.

Not really because I never liked violence to begin with. I mean, I'm a fan of combat sports like wrestling, Judo, boxing, MMA, etc But I never liked or approved of real fights. I just know that unfortunately, violence is a reality in our world and we must be prepared to handle it if we find ourselves faced with it.

I think that my view or opinion of violence has become more 'complicated'. I respect much more how serious it is in terms of effects on people but also my own ability to 'use' it . If at all possible i never want to encounter it.

no its never happen to me but i think u put too much force in your throat