I believe in the health of the whole person. I have worked and studied in both healthcare and health insurance. I learned from my time in the industry, maintenance and prevention are by far the most effective ways to live a happy life. I was not happy with watching wonderful people go thru pain and discomfort because of misuse and disuse of their body while working in healthcare and I was given an understanding of how much worse the health of everyone is getting when I moved into health insurance and saw over a short time insurance rates increase rapidly. With this experience, I decided I wanted to be on the front lines of maintenance and prevention.
I believe martial arts to be one of the most basic and essential ways to maintain the health of the whole person. It is both an individual activity and team sport. It is individual because you are in control of how fast to progress in both mental knowledge and physical application of moves and techniques. It is also a team sport because you must have dedicated partners to give you feedback and share insights on strengths and identify weaknesses. Without personal hard work and effective trust and communication, any individual will always be less than they could be in the martial arts.
I have mentioned the health of the whole person. What the whole person includes to me is the health of them physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Let me make one thing clear, all of these will be injured in life. Everyone will experience injury physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The point of life is not to avoid injury, the purpose of life is yours to decide and when those injuries come, then it is a test to recover and see if your purpose changed a lot or a little.
Now, I’m not saying go become an adrenaline junkie, but I am saying take calculated risks. When the different parts of the whole person are placed under stress, those parts will begin to fail and then those parts will have to adapt. Physically, we lift heavier weights until we adapt to that being the new standard or run longer distances until we adapt to that new standard. Mentally, we study new topics to gain a better long term understanding or we go thru mental training exercises to give us better ways to stay in a state of mind that is helpful to us achieving our goals. Emotionally, we have relationships that are new and we have to understand our roles to one another or long relationships are carved out deeper to help us find more connection and understanding. Spiritually, we experience character challenging situations where we question what kind of person we are or we reevaluate what is most important to us and change our life’s path to run parallel to the most important thing.
I’ll admit that martial arts are not the only way, but I have walked the path. I know the risks involved and the rewards that follow. I can say they are worth the work. They are worth the work and I can help you minimize the risks. I can help minimize the injuries and you can feel the reward. The accomplishment of learning Jiu Jitsu and/or Karate. The work is something you still have to manage yourself, but I provide the environment, safe training partners, and quality instruction.
All the training and practice is for the preparation of self-defense, but we are here to “learn to fight, not fight to learn”.
I believe martial arts to be one of the most basic and essential ways to maintain the health of the whole person. It is both an individual activity and team sport. It is individual because you are in control of how fast to progress in both mental knowledge and physical application of moves and techniques. It is also a team sport because you must have dedicated partners to give you feedback and share insights on strengths and identify weaknesses. Without personal hard work and effective trust and communication, any individual will always be less than they could be in the martial arts.
I have mentioned the health of the whole person. What the whole person includes to me is the health of them physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Let me make one thing clear, all of these will be injured in life. Everyone will experience injury physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The point of life is not to avoid injury, the purpose of life is yours to decide and when those injuries come, then it is a test to recover and see if your purpose changed a lot or a little.
Now, I’m not saying go become an adrenaline junkie, but I am saying take calculated risks. When the different parts of the whole person are placed under stress, those parts will begin to fail and then those parts will have to adapt. Physically, we lift heavier weights until we adapt to that being the new standard or run longer distances until we adapt to that new standard. Mentally, we study new topics to gain a better long term understanding or we go thru mental training exercises to give us better ways to stay in a state of mind that is helpful to us achieving our goals. Emotionally, we have relationships that are new and we have to understand our roles to one another or long relationships are carved out deeper to help us find more connection and understanding. Spiritually, we experience character challenging situations where we question what kind of person we are or we reevaluate what is most important to us and change our life’s path to run parallel to the most important thing.
I’ll admit that martial arts are not the only way, but I have walked the path. I know the risks involved and the rewards that follow. I can say they are worth the work. They are worth the work and I can help you minimize the risks. I can help minimize the injuries and you can feel the reward. The accomplishment of learning Jiu Jitsu and/or Karate. The work is something you still have to manage yourself, but I provide the environment, safe training partners, and quality instruction.
All the training and practice is for the preparation of self-defense, but we are here to “learn to fight, not fight to learn”.
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