{"id":52,"date":"2014-08-10T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:25:18","slug":"learning-to-fight-so-you-dont-have-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/learning-to-fight-so-you-dont-have-to-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Fight so You Don&#8217;t Have to Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GracieConfidenceBJJ.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/GracieConfidenceBJJ.jpg?resize=320%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As a lifelong martial artist, and current BJJ (<em>Brazilian Jiu Jitsu<\/em>) roller, I can relate to this meme.\u00a0 Many people will agree that martial arts training, regardless of the art, will increase one&#8217;s confidence.\u00a0 Having said that &#8211; please be aware that it is very possible to be fed incorrect information and be trained in fighting theory and technique that actually does not work, which is very bad if something serious should ever happen.\u00a0 However the individual still gains confidence from the training.\u00a0 It is confidence built with a house of cards, but to the individual, from their perspective (<em>before the illusion is shattered<\/em>) they feel secure and confident.\u00a0 My quick advice is if you are interested in training in a martial art, or enrolling a child in some classes, do plenty of research on the art, the school, the teacher, etc. to make sure your personal goals are aligned.\u00a0 Now go train!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a lifelong martial artist, and current BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) roller, I can relate to this meme.\u00a0 Many people will agree that martial arts training, regardless of the art, will increase one&#8217;s confidence.\u00a0 Having said that &#8211; please be aware that it is very possible to be fed incorrect information and be trained in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[538],"tags":[549,551],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confidence","tag-confidence","tag-martial-arts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}