People sometimes ask me, upon learning that I am an advanced degree in martial arts, “have you ever used it.” I don’t have an exciting story to tell them about how I bested a bunch of thugs in a dark alley somewhere, somehow, someday. That never happened, and don’t think ever will happen, not now and not ever, I think.
When one is an early student of the martial arts one often feels “tough” and may even swagger about a bit. Somet (more…)