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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eleanor" data-source="post: 2631804" data-attributes="member: 91545">I tend to think of martial arts and budo separately as I'm rather tired of people who can't separate martial arts and fighting.  Our police officer friend may agree with me there!Budo is a way I try to become the person I want to be.  (Limited success but maybe one day I'll get there.)  It allows me to relax and de-stress due to the ritual and having to concentrate on what I'm doing.  I've found that I've become a physically and mentally stronger person since taking up martial arts.  I quite like doing the little I can to preserve a tradition that goes back hundreds of years and was nearly wiped out entirely.</blockquote>