Attitude survey - all answers welcome!!!
May. 13th, 2004 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaI'm trying to get a handle on how people feel about martial arts - it's one of the ways I can become a better ninjutsu teacher. If you can take a minute and answer these questions, I'd *seriously* appreciate it!
If you are into martial arts...
Before you got into martial arts, what did you think about it? What kind of positive/negative ideas or impressions did you have of it? What was the positive idea that finally prompted you to become active?
If you're not into martial arts...
What's your impression of martial arts? Both good and bad impressions are valuable to know about. Is there anything you've heard/seen about martial arts that makes you want to try it? Is there anything you've heard/seen about martial arts that makes you not want to try it?
If you are into martial arts...
Before you got into martial arts, what did you think about it? What kind of positive/negative ideas or impressions did you have of it? What was the positive idea that finally prompted you to become active?
If you're not into martial arts...
What's your impression of martial arts? Both good and bad impressions are valuable to know about. Is there anything you've heard/seen about martial arts that makes you want to try it? Is there anything you've heard/seen about martial arts that makes you not want to try it?
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Date: 2004-05-14 07:28 am (UTC)What's your impression of martial arts? Both good and bad impressions are valuable to know about. Is there anything you've heard/seen about martial arts that makes you want to try it? Is there anything you've heard/seen about martial arts that makes you not want to try it?
when i was a kid, my dad was all about making me take karate, so i could "protect myself" or whatnot. so of course, i then had no desire to ever, ever learn karate, because he bugged me about it for years. lately, though, movies like Crouching Tiger and Kill Bill (not to mention Samurai Jack--**awesome** cartoon!) make martial arts look really, really cool. i took a self-defense class last year in greensboro and really enjoyed it. i would like to learn some sort of martial art, particularly for the physical keeping-in-shape aspects of it, but my focus right now is yoga (mostly because i can take yoga classes for next to nothing). if there was a martial arts class that i could take cheaply, and it provided a good workout, i would be all over it.