RyoSakazaki

So I really enjoy tournament fighting I should be a tournament fighter to make a living? Hmm..fighting for a living would seem like a bad choice though...

I believe people practice martial arts for various different reasons. Some practice to become more healthy, some practice for fun, but others train to become the strongest fighter in the world. But I think budo in this day and age isn't that alive.

Those are all helpful suggesitions. I think a bouncer would be kinda fun.

I was just wondering if is there any way for me to use my martial art skills to make money besides teaching? I was thinking of fighting in tournaments for money but I think it's a bad idea if I want to do that to support myself. I'm 18 and I really want to consider a carreer involving martial arts.

No, he didn't create his own "style" at 13, he started to get really serious when he was 15, and then started to create a fighting style. His fighting style wasn't created to teach others but more suited for himself. And his old school did spar but it was only like once every 2 weeks for like a few minutes.

This story is true about a friend of mine.(he wants to remain anny.) My friend was 13 years old when he got interested in martial arts. So he joins a karate dojo near his home. He enjoyed it for a while, and even got to orange belt. But soon he started to get bored by it. Not because of him losing interest in fighting but because he hated how his classes were. He said his classes were basically mostly katas and learning one or two new techniques a week. He really likes to spar but his class would only spar once every two weeks on fridays for 15 minutes near the end of class, and he only has class 3 days a week. So he didn't do much fighting really, just mostly katas which he found boring. I know some karate styles focus more on katas then fighting I think. So eventually he quit the dojo. He would've joined another but that was the only one in his area. But he still loved martial arts. So later on that year he bought a new gi and a black belt and started training. He said it was hard since he had no instructor to guide and help him, but he didn't stop. He didn't use a particular style of karate, he just copied techniques he saw some from some other martial arts; Muay Thai, Baji Quan, Mantis Kung Fu, Taekwondo etc. So he eventually created his own style of karate. I think he named it "RyuukuNoKen". About 3 years later after training alone he started to challenge some other martial artists around his area. They were all blackbelts (don't know what degrees) he won about almost all of his matches. He even challenged a dojo instructor and won. But the thing is when he was asked what school he studied at he would say he taught himself. Pretty soon a lot of martial artists in the area and in comptetions thought he was a fake and didn't earn that black belt since he bought it and didn't earn it. But he would mostly respond that his skill was equal to a fighter who earned his black belt and a belt doesn't necessarily mean anything just your rank. Now what I want to ask everyone is does he deserve to wear that belt or is he a fake since he didn't earn it from an instructor? (BTW to this day he still trains and competes)