How to learn Self Defense

Ahh...the 90's. Such an interesting time in history. Growing up during this age was unique in its own way. I became interested in old Kung Fu movies. Rap was killing the airwaves with the G Funk era with Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Easy E on the West Side and Eric B & Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, and Naughty by Nature on the East Side (just to name a few). By the way...There is a difference in Hip Hop and Rap! Hip Hop is a culture and rap is a mechanism within that culture used as a tool of creativity and expression. There was Rap before there was Hip Hop. Just like there was gasoline before the car was invented! But I digress...The 90's also saw an emergence of popular video games. One of those games definitely influenced this fat kid for sure. Till this day I do believe video games can influence youth. Especially, youth with severe emotional problems or a lack of parenting. Now, I was not suffering from either of those things because, I can honestly say that I was raised in a somewhat positive environment. I didn't know how to fight. I was the fat kid that made people laugh and had a great time at doing it. Sometimes, I had to "throw some bows". I can remember getting into 2 fights were I thought I was a character from the video game that I loved so dearly. I learned the fighting moves of this character by spending at least $30 dollars every Saturday at the Food Lion grocery store where this game used to be located. I would walk about 1.5 miles to play this game for hours. I remember the guy who taught me how to play this game. His name was Sal and I considered him to be my sinsei for teaching me how to play this game. Sal could beat the game with every different character. Sal asked me "who do you want to be" and I showed him and from then on, I became the master at this game as well as embarrassingly picking up this character's moves. Some of the kids from the neighborhood knew that was my favorite game and anytime I had a fight they would clown me and say that I was fighting like this particular video game. Try and guess who was and still is my favorite character....


RYU the lead character of Street Fighter

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