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How can I learn martial arts without paying a teacher or going to a YMCA?

xXRavenXx asked:


I really want to lean Martial Arts, but we’re kinda tight on money, and my local YMCA is disgusting and probably doesn’t even have any self defense classes anyway. How can I learn?

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8 Responses to “How can I learn martial arts without paying a teacher or going to a YMCA?”

  1. Shihan J on March 18th, 2009 11:16 pm

    you cant, you need an instructor to understand the martial arts. and to help you with your training,
    books, videos and the internet are intended for reference and not meant as the solo source of knowledge.

  2. Komits on March 22nd, 2009 10:27 pm

    you need an instructor. learning from books and stuff doesnt work.

  3. Benji F on March 31st, 2009 7:21 am

    Watch videos online, Bas Ruttun has good stuff
    Read books, and practice

    If you have any questions let me know.

  4. Fair and Balanced on April 4th, 2009 12:25 pm

    Do not learn from book or DVD from library if you don’t have basic.

    Go to some of the schools in the area, big schools are actually better than the small ones in your case.
    Offer working in exchange of training, offer to clean their dojo or maintain their garden and all that in exchange of some training.

    Failing that, you might have to fork out some money at least for the basic training. Basic is the utmost necessary anyway in a Martial Art training. Once you have basic, you can quit the school and learn additional techniques from DVDs and all that.

  5. Zenlife on April 7th, 2009 1:13 am

    No!

    proper training at a club is the only way.

    Best wishes :)***

  6. jcool on April 8th, 2009 3:08 pm

    i know what you mean being a little tight on cash, i just found my teacher and he does martial arts, he said he doesn’t care about money like most people do so we became good friends and he doesn’t mind teaching me every once in awhile, so he shows me stuff and i practice it on my off time, so my suggestion for you is find somebody who trains or a friend who does martial arts and ask him to teach you some things

  7. Jason on April 10th, 2009 11:58 am

    Instructional videos from the library. That’s really not the best way to learn though. Nonetheless, you can learn some that way. Maybe you can find a friend with a black belt in something? That friend could legitimately teach you.

  8. cir_kl on April 10th, 2009 5:45 pm

    These days that is a pretty tough one chuco had some good ideas, also look for small ‘garage’ style schools ask friends if they know of anyone near you teaching and go introduce yourself. Old school teachers will often take a person under their wing if you are sincere and obviously willing to make up the financial portion by trading your other skills or services, cleaning the school, yard work etc. good luck, by the way it is the way I started.