There are a few important things in practicing martial arts.

The essence amongst them all is training with a partner.

There are limitations in training alone,

and the techniques of martial arts can only be improved

by trial and error through training with a partner.

Since martial arts are initially built to suppress an opponent,

you can make the techniques yours

once you read the opponent's movement, know the distance, and learn the right timing for offense and defense.

In training with a partner, it's important to "look and react".

If you can't look at the opponent carefully, you can't react.

Only when you look at the opponent can you react

and learn the timing for offense and defense.

Training with a partner is not done alone.

The partner doesn't move as you can want and even push you into a corner.

If you don't watch the opponent due to your fear,

you can't do anything at all.

A lot of beginners do whatever they've learned

regardless of the opponent's movements

while training with a partner.

They don't look at the person in front of them, but blindly deliver the movements.

If you do so, there can't be any improvement.

This can also be applied to our daily lives.

The improvement of martial arts techniques is like human relationships.

Everyday we meet a lot of people.

Spare some time, however, to think if you properly look at those you encounter.

Many times we don't see them straight, but with stereotypes and prejudices in our heads.

As we are not looking at them properly, we misinterpret their intentions.

When relationships often go sour from misunderstandings.

Looking at a person without any stereotype or prejudice, feel, and then reacting,

wouldn't it be the first thing to do in human relationships?

It is a little understanding from training,

but it can be applied to our life,

and become the way we treat our life.

And it is one of the bright sides of training martial arts.