Each style of martial art serves their own purpose toward self-defense and a fighting style. Each different style of art is like completing the human body. One art may serve as the head, the other the foot. Another may be a toe, another a finger.
It’s never a bad idea to be open to learning a different style of art, because the one you are engaged in may help you to outwit your opponent. Being engaged in one style of art may be your greatest strength or weakness. It’s also important not to reveal the entirety of your cup of knowledge, because revealing it so soon is equivalent to just throwing out what you have in there. Although learning martial arts is taught through a business or other’s may advertise it in a “flashy way,” martial arts is about serving others first and not about the money.
If you serve others first and are passionate about what you do, the money will come. The flashy advertisements are fine, but martial arts is not about ego or pride.
It’s about self-control, perseverance and patience. You have to study something that stays true to it’s culture, tradition, meaning and roots like the tree of life.
The reason why martial arts is about serving others first, is to learn to defend the honor of others and yourself.
If you are defeated and must you so die, that money will not go to the grave with you. What you have, the skills, talents you possess, lies far greater value when you value your precious life and the lives of those around you
The Heart of a True Warrior
-Yours Truly
Simone Sophia Peront
Notes from Simone 