How Many Decades Does It Take to Become a Martial Arts Master?

by Al Case

How long does it take to become a martial arts Master? What an interesting question. There is a simple answer, and it will apply to any art you study, be it taekwondo, aikido, tai chi chuan, or whatever.

To get to this simple answer, however, you have to be willing to examine a couple of factors. Really, you have to get rid of the incorrect ideas that people have about the fighting disciplines. If you can take out the trash, the answer is pretty obvious.

First, it really matters who you study with. You see, your teacher’s history doesn’t matter. What matters is whether the sensei you study with actually has the hard core data.

Second, your teacher must have the ability to teach. It is important that he know something, but he must be able to get that data to you. A martial arts instructor must know how to teach.

Third, you must practice an art that includes all the other arts. Well, that messes everything up. You see, with but few exceptions, there aren’t any arts that includes all other arts.

All martial arts have become separate, believing that they are superior, and the other fellow is inferior. This is rather silly, as the defining factor of the eastern disciplines is that a fist is coming, or a throw is coming, and everything is grown from those two facts. Using those two facts as your yin and yang, you can actually grow all martial arts, and even connect them into one martial arts system that includes all others.

Fourth you need a superior training concept. Drilling as a group is okay, but only for young children. Somewhere along the line you are going to have to actually learn what is actually occurring when you perform a martial arts technique.

Fifth, and this is the most important, and most neglected of all the factors I have listed, you must understand what you are doing. In most Martial Art Dojos, you see, the students do mindless drilling, and the belief is that if you drill long enough you will see the reason for what you are doing. Unfortunately, this is probably one of the core reasons why people drop out of such arts as Shaolin, Tai Chi Chuan, or even Ninjitsu.

People don’t want to do what they don’t understand, you see. Would you like to run in a dark room filled with thrusting fists, lightening kicks, body slamming throws, and that sort of thing? Nobody would, and that is why so few people run the course and actually learn Karate, or kung fu, or kenpo, or whatever.

That all said, there is one system we have discovered that has managed to solve all the above points…just head to Monster Martial Arts and it only takes about a year to become a Martial Arts Master.

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