Thread: Tell me about how to defend myself

Originally Posted by drewmandan

If you're trying to win a fight, then go straight to the source: Ninjitsu. Most other martial arts attempt to teach a lifestyle. Ninjitsu teaches you how to kill.

Where did you get the impression that martial arts teaches a lifestyle? I do teach my students that they shouldn't only use martial arts when they have to and also the laws about reasonable force, but it's just busy talk while we stretch. My class is for self defense.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Where did you get the impression that martial arts teaches a lifestyle? I do teach my students that they shouldn't only use martial arts when they have to and also the laws about reasonable force, but it's just busy talk while we stretch. My class is for self defense.

Suffixes -jitsu and -do, represent the two classes separated in times of samurai and monk-hood.

Jitsu, the technique.
Do, the art, the way, religiousness and morals were founding factors.

That doesn't mean that martial arts haven't changed in modern times, but there is a distinct difference that can be seen in general.

Originally Posted by ClouD

Be willing to go where the going may be tough and do the things that are worth doing even though they are difficult.

Be gentle to the weak and tough to the strong.

Never yield to repression or threat in the pursuit of a noble cause.

Teach attitude and skill with action rather than words.

Always be yourself even though your circumstances may change.

Those are quotes from the founder of Tae-kwon-do, and his proposed guidelines and philosophy "which will be the cornerstone of Taekwon-Do and by which all serious students of this art are encouraged to live".