Elysium

Ladies and gentleman and myriad of all kinds of beings, I am assuming there are a lot of you who are practicing a martial art. So I am wondering if I may hear your story? Which are do you hail from? How long has your journey been? How many arts have you gone through? That being said I am not interested in "my art is better than you" or "this won't work in streets" business, and I sure hope everyone who contributes are on same page. Me, regretably I haven't had experience in any, I should have joined one in my teens, its a shame. I will be enrolling in a Kyokushin dojo after this summer for sure. Long overdue.

That indeed is so disgusting, can you send a picture of him so I can be more disgusted? ☺️

Damn right . Thank you for the encouragement. Thats amazing! Say, did the JKD you have trained in had its own identity, or was it just a mix of different arts? As a senior, how do you think your body and mind would do at your age without martial arts I wonder? Pleasure to learn from the experienced, and thank you very much

Internal arts do look awesome, I wish I could find a teacher for those. It seems unlikely where I hail from though.

I am hoping that de-escalating will be a lesson that is being taught there. I can see how this entire thing may get out of hand if I be a loud-mouth about this.

Well, I was interested in this even when a child, honestly can't figure out why I did not join in anything all these years. Another big reason is that I want to be able to have more control of myself & just discover what I am overall. Obviously meditation helps on that area, BUT.... I think you get the point. I suppose I would try kickboxing if I really wanted a brawl in street. But a fight that hasn't happened in the street is a fight I won. Everything is risky, needlessly so. Of course I do wanna defend myself however, I mean who doesn't? Man I don't know what to expect, I have to be honest. I don't have years of experience to spread wheat from chaff. Hopefully wherever I enroll will be good in quality with lots of pressure testing. That being said it looks like pretty much all of the traditional martial arts got watered down and got turned more sporty. I don't like that, so there will be some scholarly digging in future .

Dude seek a professional for the love of God. This forum can not cover up all of them. There is still time!

Jesus the song in the background is a little too much for me 😹

This sums up my couple months long experience on DaoBums 😂

Impressive resume you got there, welcome

Of course you are

Which one are you?

I would just go for "before you transitioned" if I was in that situation 🤔 Not giving advice, just thinking out loud.

I would worry more about the violent thoughts than the headache part. The latter is kinda natural in first tries to be fair. It could be a simple case of lack of mental stamina, or monkey mind doing its best to resist. Or simply you overdid it.

Kind of like Maslows Pyramid then? Where you get the survival needs first, and then stability and so on, self actualization coming last? Or am I missing the nuance in this?

Shall we never climb Maslows Pyramid in that case? No self-actualization, ever? Just stuck in basic needs? I am hungry, therefore I am, perhaps?

What in blue moon is going on here?

Very interesting indeed, what do you reckon these Sufi Masters do to get this zapping effect? Is it essentially the same routine as Daoists?

What does this even mean?

He reminded me of that Sleepy Blujay dude. Absolutely miserable both. Both seemed like solo cultivators too. The pattern is way too recognizable. I wonder if their cultivation is making them angry or were they like that to begin with 🤔

Excuse me for the lack of detail in the title, frankly didn't know what to put there. I am just observing that there is a gargantuan amount of energy wasted via thoughts and perhaps also movements that is not needed. The latter, I am not sure, but the former, certainly. Pretty sure there should be time left for mind to ruminate, or even monkey around, but 24/7? I believe thats counterproductive. But tell me if I am wrong, I am asking here for a reason. So the question arises, how do we get a laser focus? Aside from the obvious answers meditation and always trying to stay in control, can't think anything else.

You guys kid, but OP ascended the day he posted the message and left us alone to this incarnation of suffering

Welcome

One can only guess how much venom he injected to his students. Also what an immature brat.