“Martial Arts Is A Hint Of A Great Life” by Leonardo K.

Did you know that Martial arts can help you in many aspects of your life? Thinking about that, martial arts is one of the fastest and most effective sports to train your mental and physical hearth. Despite this, people are prejudiced against martial arts. Many people think that martial arts are very dangerous and that they make people rude. Because, they think that first, make the person be more nervous, second, make the person dyscontrol their emotions. And third, they think that affects their routine in a bad way, because this kind of sport can make you hurt. However, it is the opposite. 

Martial art can improve your health. This sport can help to relieve stress and better control your emotions.  According to webmd, martial arts releases your stress, by making you take a deep breath during the training. And by kicking and punching it can help you to release your stress. Also, it helps to improve your control of emotion by learning, waiting and talking to teachers and colleagues, makes you calm so that you can be focused on the training and to be alert to not be inpatient with other people. This is a kind of training that makes your patience last longer. Furthermore, martial arts can improve your body health. Many types of sports help you to improve your health faster. And, martial arts, that uses all types of muscles and movements, can help you to make your muscles stronger and improve your immune system. According to timesofindia.indiatimes, to do martial arts, you need to do hard exercises for long periods of time. With these exercises, your heart rate is increased and helps you to build good cardiovascular endurance. In addition, martial arts improve your flexibility, by high kicks, throws and acrobatic movements. This flexibility helps you reduce risk of injuries. Besides, this training makes you improve your reflexes, by making constant repetition, so it makes you react faster. Moreover, it also helps to lose weight, by hard training. You can burn 500 calories in 1 hour. Furthermore, obviously, it makes your muscles stronger. By hard training, running, doing high kicks and jumping exercises your muscles to be stronger. And make your body more stretched, by doing stretching exercises every class, and by doing hard kicks. In addition, Martial arts can improve your mental health too! Martial arts is the greatest sport that I ever practised. Because, these sports helped me to improve my concentration, confidence, and to improve my self-esteem. According to the Institute of Modern Taekwondo, martial arts help to reduce frustration, calls for introspection and releases feel-good hormones. And make you control your actions by making you think more about it. Besides, martial arts train your brain to identify your mistakes by doing repetitive actions and the teacher correcting your mistakes, makes you realise your mistakes that you made during your life.

 Moreover, improving your mental and physical health, martial arts can also improve your life in many aspects. The first thing that martial arts can improve during life is your social life skills. By training social skills while doing sports, it is a good way to make new friends that can help you when you are in trouble. According to evolve-mma, martial arts can also improve your problem solving skills. Because during your training, you make fast decisions so that you can win the training fight. Also, it can improve your work ethic. Martial arts teaches you the importance of working hard to reach your goals. In addition, martial arts can help you to make friends and hang out with other people. Because martial arts, during the training, makes you make groups and do something. So you can practise martial arts with your group. Besides, a person while practising martial arts, without other special classes about life, learned something. In a site named breakingmuscles a person that practised martial arts mentions that breathing is everything, and we need to slow it down. That means to calm down while you are in a fight, so that you can think what the opponent will do to hit you, and that the journey is what matters. If you got a good conclusion, it means that your journey was good. And, martial arts teaches you a very important thing, that is that the biggest conflict that you will face throughout your life, is you. Martial art is a hard sport. It takes a lot of time and effort to practise and get the knowledge. Through this conflict, you will think that you don’t want to do that or this, and you will want to stop doing that. But, while you are practising, you will start to know that you can’t stop in the middle and it will help you with many things in your life. Besides, martial arts can teach you, it can transform your life. According to andersonsmartialarts, it can change your life by making your mind practise strategic thinking, so that you can improve your life in many aspects. For example, you have only 500 dollars to buy something. This strategic thinking can help you to use this 500 dollar in the best way. As well as that, martial arts can help you to make people feel good by expressing your good aura after the training. After the training, you are in a very good mood, because martial arts relieve you from your stress and make you feel that you achieved something hard and make your mind be happy.

 Now that you know about the benefits, let's move on to types of Martial arts. In this article you can find 3 types of martial arts. First, it is a traditional Korean martial art, named Taekwondo. This traditional martial art has a very long history. It has been developed for more than 5000 years. And, it is also included in Olympic sports. According to taekwondoworld, the meaning of the name ‘Taekwondo”, “Tae'' means “foot”, “leg” or “to step on”, “kwon'' means “fist” or “fight”, and “do” means “way” or “discipline”. Foot and fist is represented for all parts of the body, and it can mean the way (do) to control (tae) your foot, leg and fist. And the other meaning of the name is a way to control or calm down fights and keep the peace. So if we summarise it, it can be “the right way of using all parts of the body to stop fighting and to help to build a more peaceful and better community and the world. And the second martial art is traditional Japanese martial art, named Karate. Karate, like Taekwondo, is a martial art with a very deep history. According to karatemartialart the first bases of karate started in 1400 ~ 1700. And now the Karate that we know is linked with the 20th century. The story of this martial art started in Ryukyu Islands, now Okinawa, in Japan. This fighting style was developed by a indigenous martial artist of Okinawa and China. Karate is also known as “empty hand”. And the first time that the martial art was mentioned was in a book named, “Ryūkyū-koan” written in 1683, that was talking about a group of Japanese merchants that visited the Ryukyu islands. Furthermore, the most popular type (style) of Karate is Shotokan, which was made by Gichin Funakoshi. The characteristic of the Shotokan is powerful linear techniques, and deep stance. And the third one is Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Jiu-jitsu is not a traditional martial art that started in Brazil. This martial art is a type of martial arts that people from other countries bring. According to Essential Jiu-Jitsu the word Jiu jitsu, is from the japanese “Ju” meaning “gentle”, “jutsu” meaning “art”. So “Jiu jitsu” is a “gentle art”. Brazilian Jiu jitsu is a ground based martial art using the principles of leverage, angles, pressure and timing. Unlike other martial arts that focus on strikes and kicks, Jiu jitsu focuses on “grappling” and hold techniques, and the application of chokes and joint-manipulation. The history of Brazilian Jiu jitsu started with the import of japanese Jiu jitsu, and Judo to South America in the early 1900s. And its transformation to a new type of Martial art, by a core group of Brazilian pioneers.

The importance of martial arts is very big in our life. It can lead you to a healthy, best and amazing life! For these reasons, martial arts is a very good way to improve your life. You can change it! From a weak, bad health and person without confidence, you can turn into a strong, good, healthy and confident person. Also, martial arts is not a bad kind of sport. It is not a kind of sport that obligates you to do something and makes you hurt during training, it occurs rarely. Martial arts is the one of the best things that you can do in your life and furthermore be healthy. For example, according to onefc.com, Eduard Folayang, who was in poverty, his parents made him learn Martial Arts to make him healthy. In addition, he entered a school and started to be a wushu athlete and won 3 gold medals at the SEA games and claimed the ultimate prize in Asian Martial arts. So, if you thought that martial arts are very dangerous and cause bad effects on your body and mental health, did you change your mind? And, do you want to try?