TheDevilAside Posted May 26, 2004 Posted May 26, 2004 "If you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill
unknown Posted May 31, 2004 Posted May 31, 2004 women are welcome in the jiu jitsu classes at my dojo but few take part. mainly because of the grappling and the stuff.....makes them a bit uncomfortable
Beka Posted May 31, 2004 Posted May 31, 2004 Yeah, I can understand the discomfort with grappling.... We had to do some open-handed sorta-sparring (no full hits, just an attempt to tap the other person's belly with open, soft hands--not knife hands) for a warm-up the other day, and well, my chest area takes up a lot of space, so, a few hands may have bumped a boob or two. It was fine because I know and trust my classmates (they're not creeps, they're just trying to do the drill), but if I was new and only trying to get through a few lessons for SD purposes, I reckon I wouldn't be as comfortable with it. MA are *very* intimate. You have to *really* trust your activity partners to not hurt you, but to not be too soft on you. You have to trust (as a woman, in particular) that they aren't touching you for sexual purposes, that they won't knock you over or let you fall, and so on. This is going to sound dopey, but, I make martial arts movies for fun (they're very short). But, the better ones are *always* the ones that I made with my closest friends of several years, and I think it's very apparent when watching them that it's the level of intimacy and trust that we have together. That said, I think a woman who just joins a SD class for a few little tactics doesn't have the time to build that kind of trust required to really be able to let loose and practice like you're suposed to. So, I think that's another reason why ongoing MA training would work better than a couple of sessions for SD purposes only.
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