The best way to win a fight.

[lparnes]

Be nice and respectful, no one will want to fight you.

[rmurray]

lparnes nailed it.

I wouldn't worry about people wanting to fight me. I would be more embarrassed that another martial artist or someone I know might see me. Being in a kwik-e-mart with my gi on might suggest that I am showing off or unorganized.

Easy idea... put track pants over your gi bottoms, wear whatever shirt you will wear under your gi top and then add a hoodie, fleece or whatever weather and modesty dictate over that. keep your gi jacket in a gym bag until you get to your dojo, remove track pants and replace hoodie with gi top before workout. Reverse order after your workout.

Lupin, that is a sad story. We have two women at my dojo and I've never heard ANYTHING said in reference to their gender. Any disparaging remark about that would be so out of place at our school, I can't even imagine it. You should see if there is similar program in your area. I can't imagine that a school with so little respect for one of its students is teaching very good karate anyways.

[honoluludesktop]

The best way to win a fight is to do so with the attitude that if the enemy is down, and unconscious, you will then break their bones.

Situation take two to "tango". If you wear your gi outside of the dojo, you are contributing to anything that arises out of the the way you dress. It is not responsible to assume that because you bear no ill will to others, that others have no reason to respond to the way you dress. Would anyone go to a job interview to work in a office dressed in a gi?

[evergrey]

Haha, yes yes, as Sensei Wah said to me, "you shouldn't go around in your gi as an adult outside of the dojo because you can't trust other people to not be stupid."

I wear a coat over it now, if I have to stop before getting home to change.