I was out and about earlier today, looking for things to do with my spare time and came across a mixed martial arts training place within a five mile bike ride from my place. There was a really cool place that gave what appeared to be pretty damned good guitar and music lessons in the same complex, but the music lessons are more than twice as much, and half as frequent, and I've done alright teaching myself guitar without them so far I think.

I'm not exactly an aggressive person, nor would I consider myself the fighting type, but since I need to be working out, and getting exercise instead of drinking my face off at the computer with my guitar (see my Anyone Been to AA thread), I'm going to sign up for muay thai, and ju jitsu training classes sometime tomorrow. I was wondering if anyone had done this before, or maybe had a rough idea of what to expect. I've never done any sort of martial arts before, and I have absolutely no idea what I'm getting myself into. But it seems like good healthy fun, and I've always wanted to learn how to properly defend myself in a potentially violent situation. I'm 100% positive I'm going to get tossed around and probably hurt if I have to do any sparring, but I'm assuming it will be a learning process none the less, and I'll be sure to post pics of my first black eye and/or nose bleed for you all to get a good laugh.