Execution

​If you don’t train to use the skills you learn, they are useless. There are things you can do for exercise that hurt less than martial arts if you want to get in better shape. Many of them will be more efficient. If you get into martial arts without the desire to fight, self-defense or competitively, then there’s not much point in training. In order to be able to fight you must work against resistance. Which means you have to fight to be able to fight. We can drill all the techniques in the world, but unless you can do them on someone who doesn’t want you to, it’s pointless. Theory is great, it allows for tons of super fun YouTube videos, but execution and application are what we seek. What matters is not how many techniques I know, but what I can actually do and I only know what I can do by testing it every time I train.