I've done taekwondo striking my entire life.
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.
I would be a very different person without karate.
In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
I would never be about waking up early and do morning radio and TV back to back had I not been in the military, where they are throwing a garbage can in the middle of my squad bed at 5 o'clock in the morning for four years straight.
I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.
And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.
I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.
I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.
