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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magic Rub" data-source="post: 378270" data-attributes="member: 3619">Very true!I am by nature very (VERY!) passive. The fact that I'm in a Martial art at all is (or was) a mind boggle to my friends & family. The reason I started taking martial arts was to stay in shape (didn't want my desk job getting me fat!). I tried looking at the more spiritual/passive arts first, & then almost everything. I looked at Tai Chi, Kung-fu, Kendo, & tried out Aikido for about 6 months (4 classes a week) but nothing really grabbed me, & I pretty much gave up. Till a guy I knew insisted that I come down & train in (ITF) Taekwon Do. He was, at the time, a 3rd degree black belt (now 4th), & had a small club. He'd bugged me to come down for about a year before I snapped a told him yes. I didn't think I'd like it, it seemed far to KILL KILL KILL aggressive (Jock-ish), & I wasn't sure that He would be a good instructor. In fact I thought he'd suck. I was so very wrong, after the first class I was hooked, & it wasn't so much the art, but this mans instruction & character as such. I'm sure that I wouldn't be involved in Martial arts currently if it wasn't for his initial persistence & further teaching (other then watching movies <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). Thanks to him, I now love the art, & have attained my first degree black belt. I'm a pacifist hippy/death machine <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />. The ITF style serves me well, & I enjoy my time spent practicing it. Sure someone else in some other style may be able to kick my ass but that's not the point now is it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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