I’d like to take a self-defense oriented martial art just for my own sake and that of others around me. My tastes lead me away from seemingly competition oriented arts like Tae Kwon Do, Karate, and Aikido as I am not a very competitive person and I especially do not enjoy performing in front of large crowds of strangers.
There’s a place in Boulder called the “Combative Arts Faction” that I might check out sometime. I found their ad on a bulletin board on campus a long time ago, it had a picture of a ninja on it and, something that has me slightly skeptical about the place, someone’s graffiti that proclaimed “FAKE” or something along those lines. So this has brought me to some, perhaps carried away, thoughts of wondering whether the person that scrawled this on the ad was a disgruntled student or truly a martial arts master disgusted at the possibly unauthentic ways of the “Combative Arts Faction.” Paranoid? I know. The only thing that has me on the fence still is that they have an $80 monthly fee. That’s a lot of money to write away when I am just beginning to move out on my own. Therefore I might have to settle for a less appealing CU course or something of that sort. Time and motivation will tell, I guess.
