Originally Posted by
William Treseder
I got a black belt in karate by the age of 21.
It doesn’t make you a hard bastard, and as the OP has said, if someone blindsided me with a sucker punch, it wouldn’t be much use to me.
What it did give me though, at a young age, was a bit of discipline and confidence, and the ability to at least defend myself in any confrontations.
I’m a quiet guy, always have been, and have only once had to use it, to diffuse a situation yrs ago in a nightclub.
Most guys go through their life without getting into any bother, if they don’t go looking for trouble that is.