If you want something unique to add to your exercise regimen, martial arts may be the very thing you are looking for. Martial arts has the benefit of exercising both your mind and body. Through martial arts training, you get a complete workout that aerobics or weight lifting just cant match.
Martial arts have never been more popular as it is today. Recent Hollywood action blockbusters that feature acrobatic fight scenes like The Matrix and Charlies Angels have been hugely successful. But long before Keannu Reeves and Drew Barrymore sported their chops and kicks on the widescreen, the martial arts were already widely used in Asian movies. Chinese martial arts gave birth to a popular genre of cinema. The films of Bruce Lee were instrumental in popularizing the martial arts in feature films. Today, martial artists cum actors such as Jet Li and Jackie Chan have appeared in many Western films as direct beneficiaries of Bruce Lee’s pioneering work in movies.
While the closest that many martial arts enthusiasts can go to a dojo (a place where people practice martial arts) is playing Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter in front of a TV screen or their computer in...