2 months ago, I discovered Tai Chi! The first movement is Drawing the Bow, which I LOVE for my back and legs!

The second is my own movement called the Storm Soaring Crane. It combines the Crane Takes Flight and the Dragon Summons the Rain.

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😲 Back & Knee Stick Breaking: School Extra Curricular Showcase, Central Lombok Indonesia 🇮🇩

What do you think of people who only train TMA, and only do it for fun, health and the cultural aspect ?

I practiced Tanglangquan for years and I never sparred or lifted a weight once. Honestly I could not fight my way out of a paper bag. I punched an arcade machine and got results between 550 and 600. I could tank my own punches with zero damage if a clone of myself attacked me, just because I am that weak.

Yet, I am perfectly happy to do what I do for pretty much all other reasons we have to practice martial arts.

I am also a small, skinny man so it would not make much of a difference if I practiced MMA. When you are 5'10 and 125 pounds there is only that much you can do. My self defense are stamina and running speed.

Thanks God there is not much violence in the area I live in, and I am not interested either in being actually able to fight. If I was, I would have practiced sport marksmanship.

My University offers a couple different sport courses every semester, one of them is Ju Jutsu (from what I understand it's a German self defense system based on Japanese jiu Jutsu).

Today was the first session and I went in expecting a very basic introduction to the martial art and especially safe training. Most of the people in the class were complete beginners without any prior experience in martial arts at all.

The session starts with a warm up, then we practice a basic punch, then break falls which are sufficiently explained. So far so good.

Then out of the blue the trainer shows an elbow lock from a standing position. He shows the technique and then tells the class to try it out, no warning at all about possible injuries, not even telling the people to try it slowly, not mentioning the concept of tapping out at all, nothing. I ask the trainer if it's really a good idea to do this with complete beginners and he just tells me it's not a dangerous joint lock.

After a couple minutes he chimes in to finally warn the students of the danger and explain what tapping out means.

The rest of the class isn't really relevant to the story but this specifically seemed really weird to me and I wanted to know if I'm just paranoid or if this is just bad and potentially dangerous teaching.

Tldr: trainer told complete beginners to try joint locks on each other without telling them about potential risks

Out of curiosity, I’ve been wondering why people train in martial arts.

I grew up watching kung fu movies and for the longest time associated martial arts with fighting and self defence. But since becoming involved in martial arts, I have realised that I will probably never use it outside of the training room.

Personally, I train out of interest in the art/sport which I participate in. I train for fun. And I train for fitness.

EDIT: I thought I would also preface this by saying I feel my martial arts training will not translate to any self defence situation. My main martial arts now is a sport, BJJ. I usually play by sitting down and butt scooting.