This post is dedicated to all the Brave, Dedicated and Hardworking Women practicing Martial Arts all around the world...
Many martial art Internet forums / communities / groups generally have at least one anti-women post or topic like the ones mentioned below and other kind of biased nonsense.
“Boys are stronger than girls” http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=706322&tid=2515435392517766993
“Karate 4 boys, Dance 4 girls” http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=706322&tid=2531417622949608427
What these male chauvinists try to state is that women are weaker than most men so they (women) should not learn martial arts or that there is no use for them (women) to learn martial arts etc...
First of all, these posts just prove their ignorance and their “Frog in a well” level of knowledge and awareness and secondly it is meaningless trying to rationalize the facts with them.
So, let’s see the bare facts:
If it was really true that only a physically stronger person would always win... then there would be no form of martial arts existing today, because there would be no point in learning them, as one would anyway always loose to a physically stronger person....
Other than the Spiritual Aspects, the only other reason, Huge Strong Built, Americans, Europeans etc. pay respect to Asian Masters who are small built and not equally strong is because of the effectiveness of the Martial Art Techniques that these learned masters posses...
One Good Example: Sifu Bruce Lee (5ft 7 1/2 inches tall and weighing 128 pounds) and his student Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (7ft 2inches tall and weighing 225 pounds) and many of his other students.
Martial Arts were developed primarily to help the weaker person defend himself against a stronger person... as it is only the proper implementation of the techniques that can counter/defeat the strength of a stronger person...
So if a woman should not learn martial arts (even if she is really strong) because some people think she will always be weaker than some strong man, then the raw truth is that no man has the right to learn any martial art either as there will always be some man stronger than him and will surely loose to him. In fact there are many men learning Martial Arts who would be beaten up left, right and center by women practicing in their dojo or a bigger percentage of men learning Martial Arts who could be beaten to death by women like Cynthia Rothrock or Chloe Bruce, so I guess they should all stop learning Martial Arts.
Every knowledgeable Martial Artist knows the bitter truth of Life that: “There is always someone BETTER, STRONGER, FASTER and DEADLIER than him/her Somewhere” and so it is important for a Martial Artist to always be Humble and always respect everybody irrespective of age/sex/size/race/religion or creed...
Hope this puts an end to this meaningless debate...
I now take this humble opportunity to invite each and every woman reading this article to start learning any kind of Martial Art they can and if you are already doing so I request you to never get discouraged by anyone and stop learning it because of any kind of discrimination or bias...
Take Care... and Keep practicing...
NOTE: All Images are copyright and belong to their respective owners...
Many martial art Internet forums / communities / groups generally have at least one anti-women post or topic like the ones mentioned below and other kind of biased nonsense.
“Boys are stronger than girls” http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=706322&tid=2515435392517766993
“Karate 4 boys, Dance 4 girls” http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=706322&tid=2531417622949608427
What these male chauvinists try to state is that women are weaker than most men so they (women) should not learn martial arts or that there is no use for them (women) to learn martial arts etc...
First of all, these posts just prove their ignorance and their “Frog in a well” level of knowledge and awareness and secondly it is meaningless trying to rationalize the facts with them.
So, let’s see the bare facts:
If it was really true that only a physically stronger person would always win... then there would be no form of martial arts existing today, because there would be no point in learning them, as one would anyway always loose to a physically stronger person....
Other than the Spiritual Aspects, the only other reason, Huge Strong Built, Americans, Europeans etc. pay respect to Asian Masters who are small built and not equally strong is because of the effectiveness of the Martial Art Techniques that these learned masters posses...
One Good Example: Sifu Bruce Lee (5ft 7 1/2 inches tall and weighing 128 pounds) and his student Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (7ft 2inches tall and weighing 225 pounds) and many of his other students.
Martial Arts were developed primarily to help the weaker person defend himself against a stronger person... as it is only the proper implementation of the techniques that can counter/defeat the strength of a stronger person...
So if a woman should not learn martial arts (even if she is really strong) because some people think she will always be weaker than some strong man, then the raw truth is that no man has the right to learn any martial art either as there will always be some man stronger than him and will surely loose to him. In fact there are many men learning Martial Arts who would be beaten up left, right and center by women practicing in their dojo or a bigger percentage of men learning Martial Arts who could be beaten to death by women like Cynthia Rothrock or Chloe Bruce, so I guess they should all stop learning Martial Arts.
Hope this puts an end to this meaningless debate...
I now take this humble opportunity to invite each and every woman reading this article to start learning any kind of Martial Art they can and if you are already doing so I request you to never get discouraged by anyone and stop learning it because of any kind of discrimination or bias...
Take Care... and Keep practicing...
NOTE: All Images are copyright and belong to their respective owners...
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