Female students?

[Shook Dii]

I was wondering how many students at your school are female? What is their skill level?

Thankx
-shook dii

[cakegirl]

I replied on the BJJ/MMA thread...

Are you doing research or something?

[Shook Dii]

No, I'm trying to work up the nerve to get my a$$ back in training. I thought hearing about lots of other girls would light a fire under me.

-shook dii

[Tom Yum]

No, I'm trying to work up the nerve to get my a$$ back in training. I thought hearing about lots of other girls would light a fire under me.

-shook dii

Really?

That's an interesting and unique analogy, but isn't it mostly used for people with dual agendas.......

Sorry if I've come across cort, I've been reading novels from Chrichton, Agatha-Christie, Salinger and Huxley.

I hope you can get pumped to train hard again.

[gregimotis]

No, I'm trying to work up the nerve to get my a$$ back in training. I thought hearing about lots of other girls would light a fire under me.

-shook dii

Here's my observation over years of training in a few different arts:

A lot of women come into martial arts, stay for a while and slowly fade out. A very few women stay and go the distance. The ones that stay often have better form than the men, are more combative (in training) than the men, and are more disciplined in training.

I think that men (generally) are more comfortable with sweating, grunting, and hurting each other. Also, men tend to feel that an ability to fight - or lack of it- reflects on their masculinity - therefore many men train who aren't so much commited to martial arts as they just want their friends to think that they are bad.
Women, on the other hand, have to overcome the grunting/sweating/hurting stuff, and they train or don't train because they want to, not because they need to assert their machismo. Training for the right reason often results in a more dedicated student.



It's my feeling that the women who stick with it are strongly respected by the men - particularly the coaches and long-time students. Therefore; Go train and understand that the guys that count want you to be there.


Hope this helps.

[treelizard]

I am reviving a dead thread, but I think this issue is still pertinent in the martial arts world. I disagree that most women "fade out" any more than men do. It seems that there is a large percentage of people in any serious art who will fade out or quit (or even just switch arts), and I'm not yet convinced that this exists more so for women than it does for men.

My guess is that men who train because they "want their friends to think they are bad" are just as likely to quit as women who train because "they want to".