Our inner animal.

If untrained, when it escapes, it controls us in the wrong way at the wrong time.

Just like a puppy it needs to mix socially and be trained, educated and alchemised, the best way to do this is with quality martial arts training from a good teacher.

In a good club we let it out to play with the other students for wrestling and play fighting. Club camaraderie is an excellent environment for this to happen. This is how all animals learn to hunt and fight.

Any other method (aggressive and fear-mongering clubs and teachers) creates a damaged inner animal that growls and snaps at passers by.

We need to make friends with our inner animal, let it out to play and train in a positive environment and socialise it in a way that we can use it as a powerful guard dog in an emergency.

It can be our friend for life.