World Martial Arts Blog

Martial-art helps a person master over self physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

The regular trainings and the rigorous regimentations stretching over a long period, will enhance a person’s character, if he truly puts his heart and soul into them.

Dedicated martial-artists will notice that as time goes by, apart from greater control of their physical body and reflexes, they will also have better self-discipline, greater self-confidence, and stronger self-reliance. Their self-respect will also increase as their level of dignity increases.

Another obvious change that takes place is in the martial-artist’s heart. The more powerful and skillful a martial-artist can fight, the more he doesn’t want to fight. Yes, the path of non-violence become natural when you have reached a certain level of self mastery. You will realise that you prefer to diffuse an explosive situation, instead of adding fuel to it … and very often you are in control.

“Know yourself, know your enemy … 100 battles, 100 victories … but the ultimate victory is to subdue your enemy without fighting” - Sun Tzu’s Art of War (Sun Zi Bing Fa)

Yes, an accomplished martial-artist does not fight just because he is angry or provoked. He fights only when he CHOOSES to because that might be the only way to resolve the conflict … when there is really no other better option available.

regards, Hanyi

ps. all usage of the pron “he” or adj “his” is for convenience only. a martial artist and a warrior can be BOTH of the male and female gender.

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