Some people might not want you to know this, but it is pretty darned easy to learn good karate or kenpo, or whatever combat art you wish to study, from Martial Arts DVDs. You can study hard core self defense, fighting taekwondo, classical gong fu fighting moves. You can learn just about any fighting art there is, and there are judo dvds, taekwondo DVDs, you can even consider martial arts DVD rental!

Before you buy that Kung Fu training DVD, however, and start doing the Chuck Lidell all over the place, there are three things that you need to concern yourself with. It really is crucial, and how well you do will depend upon these three things. Indeed, without doing these three things you might just as well forget about your martial arts DVD training.

The first thing you have to do, and this is incredibly basic, is you need a place to study. Even if you don’t have a personal Shotokan training hall, or a taekwondo dojang, or a Kung Fu kwoon, you must conduct yourself as if you do. You have to select a location in which to train and really make it look like a fighting dojo.

You need to clear out the clutter, not just shove it in the corners, because you are going to want to hang shiny kung fu weapons on the walls. You are going to have to check the rafters, because you are going to want to hang a kicking bag and not bring down the ceiling! You are going to want about 15 by 15 of good condition floor, because you want to be able to do Choy Lay Fut patterns or work on your shotokan karate kata DVD without running into anything or stepping on anything.

The second thing you will need to have is a regular block of time. I know this sounds silly, but the work a day world survives, people learn things in educational institutions, everything on the planet runs by being in the right place at the right time. So you are going to need to mark a couple of hours on regular days, and never miss an appointment!

Your wife wants you to take her to the store…no! The kids are going to have to entertain themselves. And turn that darn cellphone ringer off!

Now, you have the time and the location, and one would assume you have the best martial arts video training tape money can buy (my favorite is Matrix Karate…it was inexpensive, but the information on it was worth ten DVDs), and you must not forget…your partner! You need to have somebody who is willing to do the work out, put in the effort, make the appointment, and wants to have a ball! In a way, your martial arts training partner is the most important thing of all, because without a person to practice your kung fu techniques on it just won’t really work!

Now, you know the steps you have to take, and I want to say one thing: past the cost of cleaning your garage and a few Parker Kenpo videos, this is virtually free martial arts training. You go at your own pace, no one to push you past your comfortable learning speed, nobody to slow you down. And that’s my take on how to learn from Martial Arts DVDs.

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