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Aside from kids, I have found that MA attracts 3 general types of people.
The first kind enjoy the training and technique and love to test their skills against non-compliant partners/opponents. They question/evaluate technique/strategies against evidence-based practices - the put up or shut up test/prove it technique. The same test and standards they use in other parts of their lives, such as health and medicine, they use in their MA. They know their MA training will not make them invincible and that taking on multiple opponents will be to their disadvantage.
The second kind do it for health and fitness, sport, and socializing. They have no misconceptions of it being anything more than.
The third kind look like adults and by all means fit the criteria for voting. But when you observe them talking and acting the the way they do, you notice that something is off. Their mental status/level, when it comes to MA anyways, is still in that middle transition area from the child-based fantasy world and adult-based real world. They need/think MA will make them a better person
. They believe in mystical powers like chi and no-touch KO's 
. They believe that if they strike/block/attack/defend with odd parts of their body and/or with odd stances, that this will make them bad-ass fighters as they add it to their arsenal. They see that taking on multiple opponents is feasable with their MA "training," yet they continually chime in with, "...grappling/fighting on the ground is dangerous in a street fight," to criticize BJJ and "...MMA is not real-life."
The first kind enjoy the training and technique and love to test their skills against non-compliant partners/opponents. They question/evaluate technique/strategies against evidence-based practices - the put up or shut up test/prove it technique. The same test and standards they use in other parts of their lives, such as health and medicine, they use in their MA. They know their MA training will not make them invincible and that taking on multiple opponents will be to their disadvantage.
The second kind do it for health and fitness, sport, and socializing. They have no misconceptions of it being anything more than.
The third kind look like adults and by all means fit the criteria for voting. But when you observe them talking and acting the the way they do, you notice that something is off. Their mental status/level, when it comes to MA anyways, is still in that middle transition area from the child-based fantasy world and adult-based real world. They need/think MA will make them a better person
. They believe in mystical powers like chi and no-touch KO's . They believe that if they strike/block/attack/defend with odd parts of their body and/or with odd stances, that this will make them bad-ass fighters as they add it to their arsenal. They see that taking on multiple opponents is feasable with their MA "training," yet they continually chime in with, "...grappling/fighting on the ground is dangerous in a street fight," to criticize BJJ and "...MMA is not real-life."
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