Martial arts leads to both physical and mental skill improvements. As your train and learn physical self-defense skills, one of the many mental skills you develop is resilience. Resilience is a measure of your emotional strength and endurance. It’s your ability to cope with any setback or obstacle.

You might assume that resilience is something that you either have or don’t have. But just like any martial arts skill or technique, resilience is another trainable skill. Martial art is a great environment to increase your resilience. As you train and learn self-defense, you’ll encounter a variety of challenges and obstacles. But with practice, you figure out how to adapt and deal with these and other obstacles.

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Choose. It all depends on what you want. Do you want to learn at a calm, slow pace until you get the moves right? Or do you want to advance fast, training as though you are in a combat situation and quickly learning how to correct mistakes? The choice depends on you.

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When it comes to the fundamentals of karate, most people have a basic idea of what karate looks like to them. Those who have practiced martial art probably have an even better understanding of the traditions and meanings behind karate, and they may even know some of the histories. Whether you’re new to the martial art or have been practicing a long time, these fun facts may add some tidbits to what you know about the history of karate.

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