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Before I started martial arts, I had asthma, and could run no more than 100 meters (450 feet?) without wheezing. I was one of the last picks for teams in grade school... an all around dork you could say.
Well, when I was 12, I got serious about martial arts. The summer before grade 8, I was training alot, and using one of those elastic band universal gyms that my parents had gotten me.
When grade 8 started and we had the gym-class tryouts for the track and field team, I was 2nd place in high jump, 100m dash, long jump, triple jump, and 3rd place in shot put. The guy that beat me in the first 4 events was 6 inches taller than everyone else in the grade - nobody could touch him.
The previous year I had sucked beyond belief, yet I emerged as one of the top athletes in my grade the next year.
10 years later, I've kept training.. I run 10km 3 times a week ... a far cry from my younger days.
The understanding of movement and body mechanics I have gained through my martial arts training has helped me immensely in any other sport I try... although it is no substitute for actual practice in those respective sports.. it's just an edge at the start.
That really is the goal of any martial art style.. to give the practitioner an understanding of movement. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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"If you're not weird, you're not interesting".
I'm very interesting ...
seizei; (adv - Japanese) at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much (far) as possible. (pronounced - say-zay)
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