Knowledge First

Make it your concerted effort to attain all the knowledge you can to begin your foray into the world and life of martial arts. Make it your fundamental strategy to find it out before you begin martial arts, combative skills or professions involving conflict, battles or fighting. Your mind, your brain must encode the data to find it for implementation during training and practice - it is just the way of nature.

If it does not exist then your mind can't access, retrieve and evaluate for training - it ain't there.

Research before tackling a discipline so you know what you want, what you seek and most important what you get. Know about violence, know about reality based training and know how to find efficiently proficient professionals that can get you to where you want, need or find necessary for your life. To know the path is not walking the path. To walk the path one has to have knowledge of the path. Know the path first, then walk the path - it is not difficult to know it but is to walk it. The chicken or the egg?