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Why I decided to start training in a gi again


MasterPain

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Reason #10... The traditional black kenpo gi is very slimming.

#9... Keeps muscles from going cold during less active time periods.

#8.. When training alone at night, non-martial artists coming in to do cardio will be less disturbed by the guy swinging a machete around in the next room.

#7.... Traditional street cred.

#6... Less dripping sweat on the mats.

#5.. MMA or Kempo gloves (you know what Master Ken would say) make deploying a training knife from a pocket too much of an ordeal, but drawing from an obi requires the same amount of time and roughly the same movement as the blades I typically carry, allowing for more realistic situational drilling.

#4... No more digging in the laundry searching for gym clothes. (I'm a lazy housekeeper.)

#3... Putting a gi on is psychologically like the guy in Over the Top turning his hat around.

#2 Never having to verbally say "No, we do not train UFC." again.

and the #1 reason for training in a gi...

When it gets old and frays I can go to Cons as Akuma.

My fists bleed death. -Akuma

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Haha - love it!

"We did not inherit this earth from our parents.

We are borrowing it from our children."

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OSU!!! but I prefer the White Gi!!!

"Challenge is a Dragon with a Gift in its mouth....Tame the Dragon and the Gift is Yours....." Noela Evans (author)

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Haha, actually apart from #1, I was serious, and then only because there are no Anime conventions anywhere near me.

Vantheman, I will change to Muay Thai shorts if we start attracting point fighters and bo-twirlers.

My fists bleed death. -Akuma

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Haha, actually apart from #1, I was serious, and then only because there are no Anime conventions anywhere near me.

Vantheman, I will change to Muay Thai shorts if we start attracting point fighters and bo-twirlers.

We just can't find a happy medium can we. Every high school kid that asks me if i train MMA makes me launch into a speach about how we practice "combative self defense principles".

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Haha, actually apart from #1, I was serious, and then only because there are no Anime conventions anywhere near me.

Vantheman, I will change to Muay Thai shorts if we start attracting point fighters and bo-twirlers.

We just can't find a happy medium can we. Every high school kid that asks me if i train MMA makes me launch into a speach about how we practice "combative self defense principles".

Remember to direct the less jerky ones to a reputable MMA gym.

My fists bleed death. -Akuma

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