Okay my dream is to start mma but a stupid reason is holding me back?
Hey i'm 18 years old athletic weigh about 120-121 5 foot 6 and I want to do mma but I have a birthmark on my toe and I know when you train you have to go barefoot i'm just so self conscious that people will see it it's not a mole it's just a flat circular birthmark. I know it's stupid and i'm going to start mma regardless about how I feel about that I don't care what people think usually but since I was a kid I never want to show my feet for that reason. My question is how can I overcome this stupid self conscious fear and start training to compete?
Lilith2014-04-26T11:05:41Z
I have a oval nightmare on my ankle and it's obvious but no one's ever commented on it so don't stress.
Really and its only on your toe? I think you are making a little too much over this really and its not like some who have a mark or more of a mark on their face. Something like that would be more traumatic and harder to deal with and just consider that in respect to yours and it being on your toe. I once had a student that had an extra toe; yeap-she had six instead of five but nobody ever noticed it and she trained with me for several years in martial arts almost always in bare feet. The only way they ever knew it was if she told them and then they would look and say wow or something like that and that was that and no big deal.
Forget about your toe and the birth mark because it really is pretty insignificant in a lot of ways and I bet if you forget about it and don't call or draw attention to it then not many other people will either.
If it's on the top of your instep just think of it as the spot you are going to kick people with, it may also serve as a distraction to your opponents. While they look at that, you punch them in the head. but seriously, just start your training, you'll have more to think about and it will distract you from worrying about your birthmark. I mean, it's a birthmark, it's not like you have seven toes on one foot.
You might be thinking about that for the first 5 minutes in your class and then I bet your attention will be with your techniques. So what if people see it or even ask you about it? Does that make you a different person? Would they like you less for having one? I doubt it, so why do you like yourself less for having it? If you don't make a big deal of it more than likely others won't either. Just because someone might be curious about it and ask you about it does not make it necessarily and negative thing.