Can You Really Learn Martial Arts and Self-Defense From Seminar Training Only?

What do you do when, you want to pursue the studygroups close-by? Absolutely.But, I had a desire to not
of the martial arts or learn real-world self-defense andonly train in the martial arts but, to train with the best.
there are no schools near where you live? What doAnd so......I had no choice. I HAD to travel to get what I
you do even if there are martial arts schools orwanted and needed in the way of quality.What I found
self-defense classes being offered in your local areawas that I learned more during each training event
but......they're just not up to par with what you want orbecause there was MORE TO learn. That was
need.How can you get what you know you needperfect for me because it gave me more than enough
without compromising quality and settling for what'sto work on in-between the martial arts seminars and
available or, even worse......not pursuing your goal atNinja Camps that I WAS able to attend. And, it also
all?Well, you have two choices, really......you can acceptcaused me to focus much more than the local
defeat or the fact that maybe your standards are toostudents who were there.Why?I think it was
high and settle for what's available, or......you can dobecause......they took their training for granted. Whereas
what scores of very skilled practitioners have doneI did not. Since I went through more in the way of time,
before you. You can take advantage of the benefitseffort and money to be there, I refused to let any of it
of seminars and camps to get the knowledge youslip by. As a result, I, and many of my friends who also
need from the best teachers there are.Instead oftraveled for training, developed our self-defense abilities
"settling" and approaching your training with whatmuch more fully - learning our martial art with much
amounts to a "victim's mentality," you can take controlgreater depth than many who had access to their
of the situation. Instead of whining, complaining, andteacher practically everyday.Funny, really. Because it
making excuses - you can take action - one of thewasn't until I became much more interested in the lives
main traits of a warrior.With all of the power and richof warriors-past, that I realized that this method of
information pool of the internet today, it is impossible totraining - traveling to one's teacher to spend short, but
NOT find what you're looking for in the way of martialintense, visits to gain the lessons for mastery, is
arts training. There are literally hundreds of seminars,exactly the same way many of the most famous
from half-day workshops to full weekend events, andwarriors in history......became Legends!Jeffrey M. Miller is
from one and two-day intensives to full-blown ninjathe founder and master instructor of Warrior
training camps; and they're all there for the studentsConcepts International. He specializes in teaching the
who are willing to plan a little more, focus a little more,ancient ways of self-protection and personal
and be ready to travel a little farther than everyonedevelopment lessons in a way that is easily
else who HAS "settled."Can you really learn martialunderstood and put to use by modern Western
arts and self-defense from seminar training only? Istudents and corporate clients. Through their martial
know it's worked for me and many of the mostarts training, his students and clients learn proven,
proficient experts that I'm associated with. In fact, mosttime-tested lessons designed to help them create the
of my training career, at least in the early days, waslife they've always dreamed of living, and the skills
during a time when I was serving with the US Armynecessary for protecting that life from anything that
and stationed in places like Korea and, what was then,might threaten it.
West Germany.Were there martial arts clubs and