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Martial arts?????

  • 24-09-2010 1:29pm
    #1
    brookie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    hi,

    any one do BJJ? or what is your take on christians doin martial arts??? Advice please


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  • #2
    Seaneh
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    brookie wrote: »
    hi,

    any one do BJJ? or what is your take on christians doin martial arts??? Advice please

    Friend of mine competes in MMA, he's a committed Christian. It's just a sport imho, much like Boxing or fencing or soccer or whatever else. So long as you aren't doing it for the wrong reasons, I see no problem with it.


  • #3
    lmaopml
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭lmaopml


    My husband is an instructor, only it's a different form of Japanese Karate. No problem whatsoever....Why would there be a problem?


  • #4
    JimiTime
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    lmaopml wrote: »
    My husband is an instructor, only it's a different form of Japanese Karate. No problem whatsoever....Why would there be a problem?

    Don't some martial arts have religious connotations? Don't know where I heard it, but I heard somewhere that for martial arts have some religious ceremony involved in them. Might be wrong, but like the OP, I'd ask the question too before I began.


  • #5
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    JimiTime wrote: »
    Don't some martial arts have religious connotations? Don't know where I heard it, but I heard somewhere that for martial arts have some religious ceremony involved in them. Might be wrong, but like the OP, I'd ask the question too before I began.

    Some certainly have spiritual elements. Many years ago when I wanted to be a ninja (I should really start more conversations with this line) I briefly attended ninjutsu classes. Each class began with a brief spiritual ceremony.


  • #6
    JimiTime
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    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    Some certainly have spiritual elements. Many years ago when I wanted to be a ninja (I should really start more conversations with this line) I briefly attended ninjutsu classes. Each class began with a brief spiritual ceremony.

    Haha, too right! I remember as a kid, telling some school friends that I was a ninja. It was a wind up on one person that kinda got outta control:)It was funny until the best 'scrapper' in the year approached me and said, 'So I hear you're a ninja. Wanna fight?' Get this, I told him it was against my 'Ninja code'. Needless to say, he bet the feck outta me:D

    Lies people, its not clever:)


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  • #7
    Lab_Mouse
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    JimiTime wrote: »
    Don't some martial arts have religious connotations?
    Muay Thai has the wai kru which is of buddhist origin.But isnt essential to be done to train/fight in it



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