I WANT TO LEARN 'JUDO', 'KARATE','KUNGFU' ETC.ETC.

How often have people, when they realize or find out that I have some inkling of the various methods of self-defense and various martial arts, tell me of their DESIRE to LEARN such, often making a statement that they prefer one over the other, as if they knew why they felt that way and what it involved and why the others were not to their liking, without dipping their feet into the pond or stream...etc. Well, you all know what happens usually when people tell you such: THEY NEVER DO TAKE UP THESE ARTS and will still tell you of this INTENSE,OVERWHELMING DESIRE, LONGING, YEN,ETC. to embrace each and every one of these magnificent arts, especially after viewing numerous movies featuring the top stars and the exotic weapons that cut down villains galore,etc. etc. Moreover, they often, to achieve martial arts expertise vicariously, enroll or subjugate and subject their children to classes designed to make them 'karate-kas' or 'ninjas' etc. and devote great efforts to delivering and fetching their kids to classes, often substitutes for baby sitters,etc. Of course, the young and the youth, both slightly different if you get my drift, can learn much and benefit much when and if they do take up martial arts of any kind, provided some things are kept in mind, and usually these latter are not, since, 'you pay for what you get'......and can 'pick and choose' from a long list of schools and instructors in phone books, advertisements, etc. Then many substitute actual instruction for DVD watching, a few pushups and maybe a slight walk or jog through the park or something similar, like a class in tae bo to round out what they have read in magazines or books or watched on TV and maybe even from what they see and perhaps try to emulate at home from tournaments,either they or their kids have attended.....