Some people might not want you to know this, but it is quick and easy to learn good karate or kenpo, or whatever art you wish to learn, from Martial Arts DVDs. You can learn hard core self defense, fighting taekwondo, classical gung fu fighting techniques. You can learn virtually any art there is, and there are judo dvds, taekwondo DVDs, you can even look into martial arts DVD rental!

Before you purchase that Kung Fu training DVD and start doing the Randy Couture all over the place, there are three things that you absolutely must do. It really is critical, and your success or failure will hinge upon these three things. Indeed, without doing these three items you might just as well give up your martial arts DVD training.

The first thing you need, and this is so simple that it is a no brainer, is you need a place. Even if you don't have a personal Shotokan training hall, or a taekwondo dojang, or a Kung Fu kwoon, you must act as if you do. You have to select a spot in which to train and mock it up as a fighting dojo.

You need to clear out the bric a brac, not just stack it in the corners, because you are going to want to hang shiny kung fu weapons on the walls. You are going to have to check the stability of the rafters, because you are going to want to hang a kicking bag and not break the roof! You are going to want about 15 by 15 of cleaned out floor space, because you want to be able to execute Choy Lay Fut patterns or work on your shotokan karate kata DVD without tripping on things or stepping on anything.

The second thing you will need to have is a regular block of time. I know this sounds silly, but the work a day world survives, people learn things in educational institutions, everything on the planet runs by being in the right place at the right time. So you are going to need to mark a couple of hours on regular days, and never miss an appointment!

Your wife wants you to take her shopping...no! The kids are going to have to keep busy by themselves. And turn that darn cellphone off!

Now, you have the time and the location, and one would assume you have the best martial arts video training tape money can buy (my favorite is Matrix Karate...it was inexpensive, but the information on it was worth ten DVDs), and you must not forget...your partner! You need to have somebody who is willing to do the work out, put in the effort, make the appointment, and wants to have a ball! In a way, your martial arts training partner is the most important thing of all, because without a person to practice your kung fu techniques on it just won't really work!

Now, you know what you have to do, and I want to say one thing: past the cost of cleaning your garage and a few Parker Kenpo videos, this is virtually free martial arts training. You go at your own pace, no one to jack you up or slow you down. And that's my recommendation for how to learn from Martial Arts DVDs.

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