Well if you really just want to sit on the couch and masturbate all day instead of doing something productive for yourself, you probably wouldn’t be on this site. But I got your attention didn’t I?
I’ve been into martial arts on and off most of my life. I did taekwondo as a teenager until I found out it is useless just before I got my black belt and I ventured out into other training. Eventually I ended up doing security which showed me that alot of training is bullshit, which is all a story for another time. My chosen form that i’ve stuck with is Combatives.
I started training again around 3 years ago when people were losing their shit during covid, most people were acting like slaves and being completely irrational against anyone who actually used their brain and didn’t follow the lies. Yes if that scares you off from this site completely, great, i’d rather weed those people out.
Sadly I stopped for around 10 months when my last training partner stopped.
And I realized how much better I feel when i’m training regularly.
Why? What are the benefits of spending all this time training?
-First assuming you’re training in a functional system, it’s to be able to protect yourself and people you care about if you have no other choice. But even if I never get into a fight again (which I hope I never do) there are many benefits from training.
-Feeling stronger in yourself, more grounded, more masculine. Getting into your primal, raw side and hitting pads, training against resistance.. there’s nothing really like it.
-Building your confidence, over time if you train functionally you will become more confident, calm and grounded in your life. Obviously as I alluded to in the introductory post to this site, it should also be combined with inner work. But there’s nothing quite like this kind of training for connecting with your physicality and your masculinity – I’ve done men’s groups and even run one with a friend where we would sit around and talk, do ‘authentic relating’ type activities and I enjoyed it for the most part but I can’t say I noticed much growth as a man. I’ve noticed much more growth from getting into my physicality and training in combatives.
-Start to project a stronger vibe, become a harder target. Generally a dodgy person will look for a victim, who is unaware, walking around scared with their head down and projecting weakness. Training helps you to project a confident vibe, not over the top with a puffed out chest which will also attract fights, but just calm, confident and aware in yourself. Awareness is one of the most important factors in self-protection and one of the most directly controllable factors to help you become a harder target. I may do a post on awareness at a later date.
-Get fitter in a fun way. I don’t specifically focus on fitness in my classes but you do definately get that indirectly. Try clinching (stand up grappling) someone for a few minutes and see how tired you are, or doing a pad drill where you strike the pads full on for a minute, or where you set a timer to hit the bag as explosively as you can without stopping for a time to work controlled aggression and tell me that it’s not building functional fitness.
-Discharge aggression in a safe, functional way. Connect with your masculinity and natural aggression in a positive and productive way because as we know the fucktards in society have tried to get rid of most outlets for men apparently completely clueless that if they don’t have these outlets that it will come out in negative ways.
-Learn to deal with ‘pressure’ with drills that make you slightly uncomfortable, built up over time to manage the ‘pressure’ of a confrontational situation. This can help you to be better able to deal with confrontation in your life.
-I’ve noticed that doing physical type activities like this, or an offshoot that I call “masculine play” (the first half of the site name) that you connect much more with the other guys than if you just sit around talking. I’ve noticed similar with improv type classes i’ve done, where you’re all doing silly stuff together so you connect more with the group than if you just met up to chat.
Do you really need any more benefits?
I believe that functional martial arts type training is one of the best things you can do for your growth as a man, of course combined with doing internal work. It’s not the same just doing internal work without the physicality, nor is it the same just doing the physicality without the internal work.
Really the mind and body are inseperatable and both should be trained. A good class will also help train your mind, mindsets, outlook, awareness of yourself, others, your environment and how to deal with situations.
So find something you like whether it’s mma or another functional art, or combatives which is hard to find and still relatively unknown but for me it’s ruined everything else (in a good way) and other types of training don’t feel as right for me. But find what it is for you.
Avoid taekwondo, aikido and other similar nonsense that is VERY effective… for helping you to get beat up easier.
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