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Public Schools Is Not A Martial Arts

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Another view those that may initially be opposed to jiu jitsu in public schools is that it encourages violence. Some people may think that jiu jitsu teaches people to be more efficiently violent, and we should not teach our youths this martial art. However, Jiu jitsu, much like many other martial arts, is not a martial art that the purpose and intention of learning is violence or inflicting harm upon others. Contrary to this, people who train jiu jitsu often learn when to defend themselves should they be put in a situation where self-defense is necessary, and otherwise people implicitly learn other more valuable ways resolve issues rather than through violence. Many people outside of the martial arts communities may view martial arts as …show more content…

Respect, commitment, dedication, and communication are social skills that are the major social skills that people that train jiu jitsu learn, and they will cross over into skills that youths can learn from jiu jitsu as well.
Respect for others and self-respect is something that is implicitly learned through jiu jitsu. Coaches teach respect to their students implicitly, meaning it is not something that is directly taught and stated in the sense of “you must have respect”. Rather, it is something that is part of the jiu jitsu culture. People that train jiu jitsu learn to respect their own bodies, as well as those of others. When training, respect is learned by paying attention to the coaches, which for youths also translates into learning patience to respect when the coach is instructing.
Commitment and dedication are also social skills that are learned through jiu jitsu. Children benefit by learning commitment and dedication in jiu jitsu through being encouraged to not give up. While jiu jitsu is a sport that takes time to learn, the length of time to master jiu jitsu is much longer (10 years to black belt) than martial arts and traditional sports. The commitment and dedication required to continue training is learned. Furthermore, the consequences of

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