About a year into my training, one of the students (about a year ahead of me) decided to try a competitive fight at the Battle of Baltimore (a long-running more or less traditional Martial Arts competition). She was successful and won her continuous sparring competition. I only knew her from class but this had an enormous impact on me. I began pondering the idea that if this woman, another parent who had come in as a novice and was not a kid, could pursue this that it might not be impossible for me to try the same thing.
I talked to one of the instructors and he said it was doable (he said it with such easy confidence that it freaked me out a bit). It was at that point I realized I had no idea how that I got from point "a" (wanting) to point "z" (doing). I did not know what different kinds of competitions existed, how one went about doing them, what rules might govern them, or how to go about training for these things. This is very much an insider's game and trying to figure it out was going to take some time.
But I began to form the aspiration to fight competitively, an aspiration I am doing my best to make reality.
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