what is your drive?

[Vipe]

What drives you in martial arts training? I start a brand new training regime 2morrow(hopefully) and I was wondering what drives everyone else to sticking to there training regimes. I know I usually start too intensive but thats the way I am and I just hope to stick with this one it comprises of running up and down stairs, skipping, push-ups and sit-ups, pull ups to start with and no stretching seeing I want to focus mainly on losing weight and get in shape. then stretching begins in 4 weeks as I've devised a 4 week regime focus change system. So what is/are peoples drives in training as I will need a lot of drive to keep with my regime but then again my hatered for a friend who was my old training partner may help seeing he out done me all the time then boasted

[LilBunnyRabbit]

Simply put I want to be the best I possibly can be.

Then there's the free drinks I get in order to make sure people get home safely.

Not to forget that I like the people, and get on well with most of them.

And of course there's always that buzz when one of the people I've taught comes up to me in the street and addresses me as 'sir'.

[taesujutsu]

With me I just don't know any other way. :D

I have been in it so long that it is just a way of life. I guess if I had to stop and come of with something it would be the love of the arts....and being able to push myself beyond normanl limits.

Hopw that helps, like I said, I really don't think about it. Sorry. :(

Peace,
Tae

[DAWAS]

for me it would be the love of the arts.the buzz of pushing yourself to the limit and with the club i train at the mood is allways gr8 and we keep eachother going.theres nothing quite like the martial arts!

[waya]

Easiest put, I guess I just don't know much else. I know there is nothing else I have done that makes me feel as alive as training does. I generally feel like hell when I miss it for even one day, let alone any longer. I don't think I could handle not having it at all

Rob

[pgm316]

Its become such a big part of my life that I'd struggle to be without it. It would be like asking a football fan to stop watching football or maybe a better description would be to ask a religious person to stop being religious. From hearing a lot of people talk on this subject they make martial arts sound like a religion!

But what drives me? I suppose just learning about martial arts and always trying to get that bit better. The people are very important, its a very social thing. And without a good group of people to train with my drive would definitely diminish.

[stump]

<<<And of course there's always that buzz when one of the people I've taught comes up to me in the street and addresses me as 'sir'.>>>

Sorry cdstudent but I have to ask....do your students really call you sir f you meet them outide the training hall???

[LilBunnyRabbit]

Only if they want to, its not something I've ever asked them to do and they do all know my name. They do it off their own accord, and that's why its a buzz.

[wayofthedragon]

To be the best, that is what drives me. To obtain knowledge of all that I can, to be the best that I can be over all. This is my drive. I beleive that I can never be the best period, because there is always more learning to do, and that is what keeps me hungry for more. That is what keeps my drive burning strong. The least I can do is be the best I can be. And in doing that, I must forever be in learning.

[Freeform]

To be better than I am now.

To perhaps one day be the guy in the class that hands out the beatings, not the guy thats constantly receiving them ;)

[Sweeet]

My drive...?

Probably to improve as much as I can, as fast as I can. And in that I mean improve my skill, knowledge, patience, discipline, physical fitness, speed, everything.

If I'm not improving, then something is wrong. I guess it just comes from my competative nature and the fact that I've determined it's a well worthwhile thing to do and learn.

Sweeet.

[Andy Murray]

Hi Vipe,

Crucial question.

My drive is Negativity. My own, or other peoples. Gotta fight that all the time. Beat myself, or beat them.

[Sweeet]

Andy Murray, would you mind elaborating? I don't know what you mean when you say 'negativity' - you train in martial arts to keep positive? Are you competing with yourself and others? Just don't get what you mean exactly.

Sweeet.

[Andy Murray]

Hi Sweeet,

If I catch myself thinking I'm too old, too short, too slow, too weak it gives me an extra spur on to prove that little inner voice wrong. Whenever I hear other peoples assessments, where they try and pigeonhole me by my ability, I set about making them eat their words.

[Sweeet]

Hopefully I'll be just the same, when I get there.

Sweeet

[jwc]

One of my favorite things about studying martial arts is when I am practicing sparring with someone else and I perform a series of techniques well. It is a good feeling when you are sparring with someone and a technique you have in your mind is translated into a real-life technique. I am not so much concerned with winning as I am with performing well, improving, and taking techniques from my mind to reality.