Okay, I’ve been doing the martial arts since’67. I’ve lived through judo in the fifties, karate in the sixties, kung fu in the seventies, and Arnis and Ninjitsu and MMA, and I’ve analyzed durn near every art there is. I’ve made up a list of things which I wish people would have told me when I first started out. The point here is that classes were where you learned to sweat, and not where you learned to talk. However, the reason a lot of people didn’t talk was because they didn’t know anything. So are you ready to learn the things you should know before you start learning that system of karate or kung fu or Aikido?