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To learn martial art for Boomers and Seniors is like putting money in the bank. How so? Well, it’s like this, life moves forward, and for the average person, frustrations build up. When this happens, the person involved, can be nearing a very dangerous position both professionally and domestically. In many instances, these people are walking time bombs, just waiting to explode. When this happens, all heck breaks loose. You can end up with messed up, ruined careers. And most importantly, the person’s domestic situation can take some severe hits. Divorce is not all that uncommon. One of the major causes for all of this turmoil is built up frustration. It’s important to learn martial art for seniors. Usually these frustrations are the result of disappointments in life from both personal and professional events. Spouses are no longer enamored with each other, and promotions and recognitions at the office are slim to none. I have personally experienced all of the above negative emotions and experiences. The smartest thing I ever did, was one day while driving home from work, I decided I needed to break out of my rut. I felt deep down inside that my life was going nowhere and that I needed to do something different. You know what I mean? I wanted to add some excitement to my life. Rather then get mixed up in a self-destructive “affair” or go on a drinking binge, I decided the best thing I could do for myself was to take up martial arts. Or, at least check it out and decide if I wanted to learn martial So I ended up taking lessons at the local Tae Kwon Do school. This decision turned out to be the most intelligent thing I have done in twenty years. I kid you not. Why was this such a positive and significant event for me? I should let you talk with my wife. She would give you some very interesting comments. Slowly and subtlety, I became transformed as a husband and partner. Up to this point of beginning martial arts, my wife and I were not getting along terrible well. We tolerated each other. And that’s putting a good face on it. I became indoctrinated into the tenets and philosophy of Tae Kwon Do. Subsequently, my behavior at home was greatly affected. Namely, the arguments became less. My self control improved. Specifically, I started giving my wife more “respect”. And, she in turn started giving me more respect. Before I knew it, we became a mutual admiration couple. Don’t misunderstand me. My domestic transition, didn’t happen overnight. It took months for this to evolve. In some instances, it took years. However, there was continuous positive progress. My “old self” was fundamentally altered. Now you can think what you want, but this is quite unusual, coming from and “old guy” at the time, in his late 50’s. On the other hand, this personality transformation, on my part, really is not that unusual. You can find the same thing happening with teen age juvenile delinquents or convicts in jail. You don’t believe me? Just ask Chuck Norris. Norris’s program, Kickstart, has and is going very strong in Dallas and Houston, Texas as we speak. This use of martial arts for making a transformation of people really is no surprise. One other example of successful use of martial arts in helping people transform themselves, involves the prison world, most specifically penitentiaries and out treatment centers for people who are having trouble with authority. A great deal of this problem concerns itself with fear management. A lot of these wayward offenders have deep seated battles and conflicts with fear. And, the majority of these people can’t be approached successfully by counseling and religion. They don’t want any part of this “Thou shalt not culture”. However, they do respect strength and oftentimes, the strong structure of martial art discipline that exists with traditional martial art training. As each layer of fear and emotional blockage disappears, the traditional martial art tenets are integrated into the student. The end result of most successful martial art students is comparable to a true religious conversion. The fear is gone and the student is restored to “normalcy”. Normalcy being a viable adjusted productive human being. Fear is not the only emotion that martial arts can eradicate to a great extent. As I indicated earlier, frustration, anger and stagnation can take a real toll on individuals. There is nothing like a rigorous martial art course to retool an individual for fruitful and enjoyable living. It goes without saying, having a superior Instructor is extremely important when it comes to a successful martial program. In this regard, I cannot recommend more highly such a Teacher, then my own Master Dae Hoon Lee. (Lee’s Traditional Tae Kwon Do, Sarasota, Florida) If it is not possible for you to work with him, you can get a recommendation from him for a proper and well qualified Teacher. Master Lee is well integrated and known in Tae Kwon Do and the Martial Arts. He has done a lot of work with Olympic aspirants. Cheers Jack Marinchek is the publisher of the site, http://standgreat.blogspot.com, which features- inspirational information on life improvement, getting jobs and income, travel, and real estate relocation. Season 2 “Anything-Goes Martial Arts” – Enter Happosai, the Lustful Lecher! Stamatis Bitakos VS Onur Ugurlu mansuria kung fu, breaking one finger india grand master R.Shekhar 9ème dan reportage BBC channel Mansuria kung fu casse avec un doigt par grand maitre R.Shekhar Inde reportage sur bbc
It would be impossible to fully track every aspect of the beginnings of mma. The Greeks, Romans, Cavemen? I will try to bring to you a history of mma that impacted the United States as I believe it occurred, and what is now the growing popularity in this reality fighting. When I use the term reality fighting, it refers to actual full contact striking and joint wrenching submissions. It is not meant to disrespect the traditional martial arts. In Brazil there was a competition called vale tudo (Portuguese for anything goes) In the early nineties an elder son of a very respected Brazilian jiu-jitsu (bjj) master came to the United States. This elder son and his younger brother were giving Bjj lessons out of their garage. This elder son partnered with another man and began a very popular competition where fighters of different styles would fight each other abiding by only a few rules. The younger brother of the man you started this competition dominated the fighters that stood before him. Many of the fighters were of a standing style (karate,kung-fu,etc) when this young man would take them down and tie them in a pretzel they were at a loss on how to defend against it. At this time there were no time limits on rounds. This young man would hold on to his competitors like an anaconda; wearing them down and waiting for the right moment to apply a submission hold. It did not take long for future fighters to start training in this young man’s style and start gaining there own submissions. One mistake was made though. Now they were getting knocked out. The new rules to this competition incorporated rounds, and if they were on the ground too long with no action the ref would stand them back up. Not exactly a grappler’s desire. With these new rules in place a new breed of fighter emerged. Mma fighters had to find a new way to cope with the double threat of stand up and ground fighting. Many of these fighters started to cross train in both ground fighting and stand up. The world of mma in the United States would never be the same. It was no longer a matter of style versus style, but who had the better stand up OR ground game. It’s very complex if you think about it. Say fighter A is stronger at stand up than on the ground. His competitor, fighter B is equal at both, maybe a little better at standing and just as good a fighter as A on the ground. This scenario can be a combination of a lot of variables. There is strategy in these fights. They do not just go toe to toe with a fighter. They study their competitor and try to exploit their weakness. Regardless where mma originated from, no one can deny the explosion this sport has seen, or the skill of these athletes. These are not brainless brawlers wanting to duke it out, they are skilled combatants with a strategy wanting to compete with other skilled fighters. 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This economy sucks, plain and simple. It’s probably the first time in my adult life I can actually say that. I was born in 1979, so I grew up with Reaganomics while watching Fraggle Rock. I was in High School during the first televised war in Iraq, and barely surviving the University of Maryland when Bill Clinton was explaining why Monica saved her dress without washing it. This was the same time the Mortgage Industry began their now notorious, greed filled run. However, until last year, I had never experienced such a bad economy as an adult. To top it off, I opened a Mortgage Branch the year before specializing in A-paper loans, so I was smack dab in the middle of the windstorm. As the industry got what was coming to it, I learned incredibly valuable lessons I will carry with me for the rest of my life. As the old saying goes, ‘what does not kill you only makes you stronger.’ Here is what the recent downturn in the economy has taught me…. Credit, Dead it! That Credit, Dead it. Think a crackhead paying you back, shit, forget it Credit was so available to everyone out there, that it became acceptable to live above your means. No longer did you need a used car when you can lease a brand new one. No longer did you need to have 20% to get a house, or even for that matter, did you need to show you could pay back the loan. Instead you could just ’state’ your income. No need for proof. No need to earn the right to live the American dream. Instead you could live the dream now, and pay back what you owe when you make it. Wow, sounds great. So I used credit to open up my mortgage branch. $28,000 to be exact. Being that it was a branch company, the credit I used was all personal. I took a calculated risk. I had the loans in the pipeline. I had a great marketing plan that worked like a charm. All I had to do was close these loans that all fit the current criteria. However, in a matter of days, the industry went into the toilet, and the criteria suddenly changed, even for A-paper loans. Unable to close the majority of loans, I was left with over $25k in personal debt, and no where to write it off because it was personal. Instead of taking my time to build my company, I immediately tried to have it all. I went for the whole pie in one swoop because I had the credit. Why should I not use it? Well, now, unfortunately, I know the answer to that question. Even though I had some pretty nice stuff that I owned, it still did not feel right. I had gotten most of it on credit. My house has a mortgage, even though I initially put down 20%. My car is a lease. However, none of these items give me the joy of being proud because I did not earn them the right way. All I earned, was the right to foot the bill. The Inner Beauty of Living Below Your Means I grew up in a pretty affluent area in New Jersey. Most kids in my high school got their cars from their parents, barely worked, and had credit cards that their parents also paid for them. I was not as spoiled, but my Dad was able to buy me a car when I turned 17 for $5,000. It was a 10 year old BMW, and I loved it. It still, to this day, was probably the best car I ever owned from an enjoyment perspective. However, in my school, this car was laughed at by some. ‘Dude, you call that a Beemer? It’s like 10 years old.’ Being in high school, I did not know any better. My world was the town I lived in. This was before AOL and the internet had really boomed as a networking tool. All I knew was the life before my eyes. I grew up believing that I should always have nice things. Even though I was not spoiled, I still had it pretty good compared to most, and I got used to it. As I got older, my young life left me a taste for nice things. To live at the same level I did growing up, I had to start out making what people in my neighborhood made. This was not easy, being that most people in my neighborhood were earning in the top 3% of the country. However, I had the credit. Next thing I knew, I had the house of a successful person, and the bills to go with it. However, my income was not consistently on the same level. Working on commission, I was just able to keep up with my bills most months. This was the major problem. Because I was just keeping up, as soon as things took a downturn, I was suddenly thrust into a hole. I had a ton of debt, and high monthly expenses to boot. I had to change industries completely, and start a company from scratch doing amazing web work. This was not easy for someone in my financial position. Living above my means could have set me back for years & years. Luckily, I have great support from my incredible family. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. However, besides the support, they also have taught me something that I did not know. They taught me about the benefit of living below your means. Their generation grew up in that fashion. They understood how to live life before their was credit. I had to learn this the hard way. As my Father enlightened me, the old school way of thinking was to buy a house with monthly expenses that equal about 1/4 of your income. I think that is great advice, even though it took this dire situation for it to sink in. Just because you can live above your means, does not mean you should. There is a great beauty in a person that evolves from them persevering through hard times. I know, because I saw the change in myself when I was seriously ill with Crohn’s disease for a year. Persevering through difficult times makes you appreciate the good times. Learn to love the Struggle I’ve learned this in Jiu Jitsu: ‘There is no easy road to success.’ If you want to be successful at Jiu Jitsu, you better be persistent. Well, there is no easy road to financial stability either. It is a constant battle, especially in the ever-changing economic landscape that we live in today. It is only through the tough road of living below your means and working toward the things you desire that will satisfy you in life. Going out and purchasing a new toy on credit feels good for a day. Afterward, you are stuck with the bill, and left to juggle that with the rest of your expenses. However, purchasing something that you earned through your own sweat is a feeling like no other. It makes you proud to own that toy. It makes you feel like a million dollars when you use it, because no one can ever take away the fact that you earned it. This is why we must learn to love the struggle it takes to get where we are going. The easy road is the fastest way, but it leaves you in place you don’t necessarily want to stay. Prepare for the Worst. Growing up during relatively good economic times, especially since high school, I never experienced living in hard times. I had heard my parents, grandparents, and their friends talk about the past generation’s experience, but I just assumed it was all part of the past. Today was different. We are not going to make those same crazy mistakes over and over. Boy, was I wrong. However, this experience left me with a great lesson. Even when things are going great, and you feel on top of the world, you must always be prepared for a change. If you take the time and patience to set yourself up properly, then when things to take a turn for the worse, you will be prepared to handle it. If you live above your means, then when the slightest change occurs, you will not be prepared to adapt. Financial flexibility is more important then keeping up with the Jones’. What has this recent down turn in the economy taught you? As with every mistake I make, it is important to understand the lesson that was learned. These 3 lessons are something I will carry with me for the rest of my life. They will shape the person I become because this is what my business experience has been at a young age. I hope everyone else from my generation has learned a lesson of their own as well. What is your take on the economic times? Have you been able to adapt, or were you caught off guard like me? How has this change effected the way you will handle your future financial situations? Article by Peter J. Normandia, who writes for the personal development blog, http://www.YinvsYang.com. Peter is also a partner in Pixel Mobb, a new media production company. FIGHT!! |
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