Episode 1035 - Relationship Lessons Learned Through Martial Arts

In this episode join Andrew is joined by Nick Taber. They sit down to discuss relationship lessons they have learned through martial arts. Join them to hear more!

Relationship Lessons Learned Through Martial Arts - Episode 1035

SUMMARY

In this episode, Andrew Adams and Nick Taber explore the relationship lessons learned through martial arts. They discuss the importance of listening, conflict resolution, trust, teamwork, and commitment in both martial arts and personal relationships. The conversation emphasizes that relationships require continuous effort and improvement, much like training in martial arts. Nick shares insights from his experiences in teaching and his long-term marriage, providing valuable advice for listeners on how to strengthen their relationships.

TAKEAWAYS

• Listening is crucial in both martial arts and relationships.

• Conflict is inevitable; prepare for it through communication.

• Trust and integrity are built over time and require ongoing effort.

• Commitment is essential for a lasting relationship.

• Teamwork in relationships means supporting each other through challenges.

• You should always strive to improve yourself and your relationship.

• It's important to evaluate if your relationship is right for you.

• Relationships require effort, just like martial arts training.

• You can learn valuable lessons from the dojo that apply to life.

• Being a good partner means being present and supportive.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction
04:01 Listening: The Key to Strong Relationships
10:21 Conflict Resolution: Learning from the Dojo
16:00 Trust and Integrity: Continuous Improvement
21:06 Teamwork: Facing Challenges Together
27:36 Commitment: The Foundation of Lasting Relationships

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT

Andrew Adams (01:18.508)

Welcome you're listening or watching to the next episode of whistle kick martial arts radio And today my good friend nick taber and I are going to be discussing Relationship lessons learned through martial arts. What the heck does that mean? Well, you're gonna have to stick around and find out before we get there I want to make sure that all of our listeners know about

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Nick Taber (03:51.861)

I'm doing fantastic, Andrew. It's always good to see your face and hear your voice, depending on how everybody's consuming this one. Appreciate you always, man. Appreciate you always. If you are, if you are listening, I am wearing a very cool thing. I am wearing a cool thing. So I to figure out what that is. Do what Andrew said.

Andrew Adams (04:00.898)

That's true, you could be watching.

Andrew Adams (04:09.321)

yeah.

Andrew Adams (04:14.848)

Yep. Yep. so You yeah as as a good, not a good friend as a podcast that I listened to the the host says and i'm stealing this from him. I did not come up with this don't don't do it Do do do it

Nick Taber (04:27.243)

Yeah. What do say?

Nick Taber (04:33.151)

Okay. Do it,

Andrew Adams (04:34.434)

Yeah, don't don't do it do do do it Yeah, that works Anyway, so nick, you recently wrote an article for martial journal and I I saw this article from martial journal and I said wow, you know what? That is an interesting time. I read through the article. It's like, you know, this is interesting This will be an interesting thing to chat about it and your article was marriage lessons that

Nick Taber (04:45.727)

I did, yeah. Yeah.

Andrew Adams (05:01.644)

that you've learned through martial arts. And we're changing it to be just relationship for this episode because not everyone is married or not everyone wishes to be married. I thought, you know what? This will be a fun thing to chat about. So first, how did you come up with the idea to write this article for martial journal?

Nick Taber (05:03.925)

Yes.

Nick Taber (05:07.349)

Yeah.

Nick Taber (05:10.846)

Right, yeah.

Nick Taber (05:23.157)

Well, I've been teaching for a really long time. And also I've been in a great relationship for a very long time, right? I read around the time of recording this, my wife and I, 13 years married, we've been together for 24. So people always ask me, you know, how do you do it? How, what exactly do you do? What's your secret? There isn't one, to be honest with you, there really isn't.

But I just kind of, when I started teaching again and I had people who started getting the relationships and these things kind of came up in natural conversation. And then we go, okay, and it hit me over the head. shoot, this is a story. Like, this is a story and I started working on that. did, I put this together and I've been kind of doing it in different forms.

You know, it was a match at for a little while and then it became, you know, you know, became stories beyond that. And then it became the article, but it's been about a year of progress, honestly. Yeah. You know, it's a, it came about. And then I just kind of came up and now we have the article today. Yeah. Yeah.

Andrew Adams (06:38.22)

Yeah. Okay. And your, you know, your article was, marriage lessons for husbands, right? If I'm remembering correctly, right? So we're gonna, you're, gonna make it a little more, you know, both sides, right? It doesn't matter whether you're a husband or not a husband, right? There's still advice there and lessons that you've learned. So what was, what was the first, where's the first topic we want to go? What's the first lesson?

Nick Taber (06:45.619)

Right, yeah, yeah.

Nick Taber (07:02.941)

Well, we could start with the first one. When I listened to your partner, you know, and one of the things, the correlation when you're in the dojo in any relationship, I always loved this phrase. I don't matter. We matter, you know, where it's not about somebody who, you know, would go in and I was this kid for a little while in the dojo that had that ego and can do a lot of things, but it really became

over time as I matured more as a martial artist became more about being, you know, being everybody in the group, being better, you know, and of course I improved myself, but one of the things when you listen, you know, when you don't matter, it really doesn't mean you become worthless. It's about taking the ego out. And when you're in the relationship that you're in, it really, you know,

Hey, I brought you flowers or hey, I got this thing. This is a thing that I did. And like, okay, they did that, but after a while, it might not be the right thing to do, whatever you're doing. I use an example of something, like when you're living with somebody, and this is a super kind of draconian example, but you go home and just your partner just made you dinner.

And you know what happens? It's your turn to clean your advice first or something. Or maybe you share it, whatever happens. But you got to, you got some dishes in the sink and then you notice your partner's kind of a little irritated, but not saying anything like, shoot, I've got to go ahead. I've got to take care of that because other things are not working. So like in the dojo, we have different walks. We have the rich, the poor, you know, everybody's equal. Everybody's equal in the school, you know,

we play a role in helping the school thrive. We listen to each other to pick up the cues. So that way we can help each other thrive.

Andrew Adams (08:58.411)

Mm. Yep.

Yeah. And you know, an example that I was thinking of too, I mean, obviously listening is a good skill. Period. Right. It just in general, open your ears and listen. And, you know, I am reminded of a time when an instructor said to me, said to me and another student, okay. I want each of you to go over there, you know, each of you pick a side and I want you each on your own to work on this form. Now we're working on the same form.

Nick Taber (09:07.241)

Right, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Nick Taber (09:17.173)

Yeah.

Nick Taber (09:25.364)

Mm-hmm.

Nick Taber (09:28.758)

Yeah.

Andrew Adams (09:31.958)

And what he said was each of you on your own work on this form and what we heard because we heard what we wanted to hear, which was we're going to get to work together. But he didn't say that. And he very specifically wanted us to work separately because he wanted to see how well each of us would remember it on our own without having the help of each other. Not that there's nothing wrong with working together, but he, you know, we started, you know, we

Nick Taber (09:36.691)

Right.

Nick Taber (09:40.863)

Right.

Nick Taber (09:56.062)

Right, yeah.

Andrew Adams (10:01.708)

We're there working together for 10 minutes and, he came back, he came over. like, this is not what I asked you to do. So, you know, that, you know, listening is a, is a great valuable skill for sure. So you, know, taking that from your martial arts school into a relationship listening is very important. So.

Nick Taber (10:08.385)

Yeah.

Nick Taber (10:15.457)

Absolutely, yeah.

Nick Taber (10:21.471)

Yeah. And you know, just to add to that as well, when you do listen, there are several cues, but when I think about it, I like, it's like sparring as well. You know, sparring itself, not that I hope you're not in a relationship where it's going to be an actual sparring match, but hopefully not. That's not where I'm getting, but yeah, you want to, yeah, but.

Andrew Adams (10:40.174)

Hopefully not.

If it is, you might want to get out.

Nick Taber (10:49.195)

There are times when you do something even like when we do slow sparring and for those who have been with All In Weekend, this is a thing that comes up quite a bit. You know, where you do the slow sparring but you're picking up on your partner's cues. They throw something and after a while it becomes a dance, you know? Where things here, if it comes up and your partner has, you know, a...

you know, has a bad foot or has something that has something that may not be working right, then you keep moving in order to keep that going. And now if listeners or people are, so you might hear my cat meow here, but she's just wandering around and just wondering what I'm doing and who I'm talking to. So if you're, that's nudge, that's okay. If you're ever, if you're on YouTube, I might pull her on a camera, but we'll see. And she just left. Nevermind.

Andrew Adams (11:26.36)

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Andrew Adams (11:33.806)

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Andrew Adams (11:37.23)

Hmm.

Andrew Adams (11:40.814)

All right, so the next bullet point that you talked about in your article was learn how to deal with conflict. And obviously in the dojo, we often have to deal with conflict.

Nick Taber (11:50.761)

Right. Right. Yeah. And when you deal with it, it's again, coming from, know, the listening thing, it's about taking the ego out and we don't, you know, it's like, I don't matter. We matter, you know, when you look at it and when you do have conflict, it's going to happen. You know, it's going to happen with whatever it may be. I'm not going to give an example for that.

But it really is, I learned it in the dojo really just to take the ego away. You know, cause a good dojo, it's about everybody. You know, it's about everybody. And I correlate that when I pull that into a relationship advice, I just really say that. You know, that is here. You can't avoid it, but you can prepare for it. You know, you can prepare for it. My wife and I,

We'll have the times where we talk about it. Like one of the things if we had an argument about something or rather disagreement would have been about, you know, would have been about, you know, something about money, about paying a bill or something. And then, you know, so often, you know, it'll come to a time where we'll do a we'll do a check in with each other and then say, OK, how are we doing? How are the bank accounts doing or what's going on?

and then say, okay, well, I'm going to be spending this or I just spent this or so that way when it does come up, we already have the opportunity to talk, you know, because we already know where we are, you know, and yeah, and much like everything in the dojo too, you know, you practice for a hard situation to come up. And then when you have that situation, you've already drilled this, you know, you've already drilled this again, because it's not about you. It's about the both of you. Yeah. Yeah.

Andrew Adams (13:21.644)

Yeah, yeah. Exactly.

Andrew Adams (13:40.524)

Yeah, exactly. Now, now the next point I wanted to get into was the your third bullet point was trustworthiness and integrity. But forgetting those those buzzwords, right? The thing that that I got that I really enjoyed was that your analogy of

Nick Taber (13:52.543)

Yep.

Andrew Adams (14:01.24)

people listening, when you get your black belt, you don't stop training. I mean, okay, let's face it. Let's face it. Some people do a fair number do, but those that are listening to this podcast probably aren't in that camp. So, you know, just because you get your black belt doesn't mean you stop working. You know, when I, if I were single, I'm not, I'm married, but if I were single and I met a girl,

Nick Taber (14:05.171)

Exactly.

Nick Taber (14:09.546)

Right.

Nick Taber (14:13.343)

Yeah. Yeah.

Andrew Adams (14:26.19)

that I wanted to start dating, right? There's the wooing phase, right? Where I'm, we're dating and I'm doing everything I can. Once that person, once that other person is my partner, doesn't mean that you stop working to, I don't want to say impress, but you don't stop working on your relationship. I mean, you mentioned because your article is about, you know, marriage. So you said,

Nick Taber (14:28.438)

Yeah.

Right.

Nick Taber (14:50.498)

god no.

Andrew Adams (14:55.872)

I believe that it was something to the lines of when you get your black belt, you don't stop training. So why would you stop working on your relationship after you said, do? I mean, obviously not everyone listening to this will be married, but then it will be in a relationship. the concept I think is a really valid one that you're going to continue to work on the relationship even after you're already an item.

Nick Taber (15:05.074)

Exactly, yeah.

Nick Taber (15:14.055)

Exactly. Yeah.

Nick Taber (15:20.085)

Yeah, yeah, it's, you know, it's one of the tropes really that I used and where I got that from became, you know, when it came advice was I used to be a justice of the peace and it was a, wasn't a long career that I did it, but that was one of the things like if you're annoyed that your partner is leaving their socks on the floor, you know, or something.

Andrew Adams (15:33.698)

Mm-hmm.

Nick Taber (15:50.107)

you should tell them about that and let it build. you know, we don't, and I coached one couple on this and I said, you know, you both aren't mind readers. You know, you're not going to be able to see that, but you could generally work with it. And again, like, you know, talk about it with each other. And you know, once we do reach black belt, it's not the end of the road.

You know, it's not the end of road. I'm glad you picked that analogy. That's a really good one. That's a really good one. But it really isn't the end. You constantly improve upon it. And talking with a mutual friend of ours a few months back, Uncle Tommy, when I was talking with him, and he's like, you're married? You're high school sweetheart? said, yeah, I am. And he's like, how do you do it? I'm like, we work at it.

Andrew Adams (16:44.13)

Yeah. Yeah.

Nick Taber (16:44.721)

We work on it. I threw the analogy back at him. said, well, how do you still do what you do, you know, 50 plus years in the martial arts? And he paused. Anyway, I work at it. Like, there you go.

Andrew Adams (17:00.27)

Yeah, Yeah. There's a great line that I read once, which is that when you're a black belt, it doesn't get easier. It just looks better. But it's not easier. And I think it's the same with the relationships. If you've been married 40 years, it doesn't mean it's easier. It looks better. It might look like it's still takes effort. So I think that was really good.

Nick Taber (17:11.67)

Yes.

now. Yeah.

Nick Taber (17:20.597)

Yeah.

No. Right.

yeah, yeah. Thank you.

Andrew Adams (17:29.998)

Yeah, really good. All right. Well, the next part was I think there were five of them, right? And we've done three. OK, so what was number four?

Nick Taber (17:36.097)

Yep. Number four. Well, I'm looking at that really, um, working on, I'm going to skip one here, but, um, because we kind of went over working as a team, you know, we're, know, working as a team again, two against the world. I mean, you know, when life throws punches and I'm going to read directly from the article here.

Andrew Adams (17:50.891)

Mm, yeah,

Nick Taber (18:01.473)

You know and I used one of my favorite movie lines from you know movie planet terror as you know it's us against the world And it's two people not fighting with each other, but it's the fighting against everybody else as we could you know in the dojo We all are the same gee it doesn't matter where he came from we're all in it together And you square up side by side and you take on it as you know as a unit

And when you're training partner in class or your spouse depends on you to show up, support them and then grow with them. So it, yeah. And that, okay. There's a point that I want to say with that is, you know, like I learned this from when I was in the dojo. And I mean, I grew up, I, on paper, I shouldn't have been as high as I am in the martial arts, you know?

Andrew Adams (18:25.995)

Mm, mm.

Andrew Adams (18:32.546)

Yeah. And go ahead, go ahead.

Nick Taber (18:54.707)

a kid with cerebral palsy issues with my body and stuff that I do. But every time I went in there and I learned years later, I showed up. had everything with me, every weapon, my gear, whatever. I was ready to go for whatever. And, you know, people reach out to me on Facebook or somewhere saying, you know what? I was having a bad day, but I showed up and I showed you saw you coming in ready to go.

It lifted me up. said, okay, and then you were naturally a leader for that. went, wow, thank you. You know, and you know, if you're never going to know, and again, we're not mind readers on this, but when your partner is having a day or something, they're going to need your energy. You know, they're going to need your energy to throw at it. And you'll have much like in the dojo, you're never going to know when your fellow partner, your sparring partner, anybody else is having a bad day. You're going be able to get in there.

Andrew Adams (19:27.361)

Mm-hmm.

Nick Taber (19:51.489)

That'd be you, because you can help them out more than you know.

Andrew Adams (19:54.114)

Yeah, yeah. To me, the working as a team, like I came at it a slightly different way, but I think the concept is the same, which is so my, the last school, actually the school that I'm in now in the last school I was in, we're both very small schools, right? We're not, we're not talking a black belt class of 50. We're talking, you know, one or two black belts total, and then everyone else are under ranks and maybe.

Nick Taber (20:03.019)

Yeah.

Nick Taber (20:10.262)

Yeah.

Nick Taber (20:14.41)

Right.

Nick Taber (20:20.577)

Right, yeah.

Andrew Adams (20:21.632)

maybe 10 students total, right? Very small. so working as a team, whose job is it to get students in the door and keep them in the door? Well, the small-minded person would say it's the instructor's job. It's the teacher. He owns the school. It's his job. But we know that we're a team, right? We want I, as a student in the school, not the owner of the school, not the teacher of the school, but I,

Nick Taber (20:33.961)

Everybody. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, right.

Andrew Adams (20:50.028)

want the school to continue to flourish, which means I want people to be there. I want people to train with, right? I want to be able to go to class and have it. I mean, yes, it's great if I go to class and I'm the only one, it's a private lesson, but having other partners to train with makes me better. So I want those people to be there. So my instructor and I, we're a team.

Nick Taber (20:53.428)

Right.

Andrew Adams (21:18.516)

all of the students and I, we are all a team. We want to keep students there and keep them happy. you know, is it my job, quote unquote? No, but it is, you know?

Nick Taber (21:21.949)

Exactly. Yeah.

Nick Taber (21:32.609)

It is, it is absolutely. I mean, it's, it's something about the word that you say it's your job, you know, where it's just, yeah, come at it. It's just me. It's just me too, you know, and that's just not nagging what you said, cause you were, were dead on right, but it's just, it's a, it's me coming at it and doing my thing. And you know, I,

Andrew Adams (21:41.666)

Mm-hmm.

Nick Taber (21:59.457)

You know, Kaz and I, my wife and I have this thing of we're gonna be there for each other the best we possibly can. And every relationship's not a 50-50. You know, someday you come in, know, somebody's at a 10, you're gonna do your best to get to the 90, and then vice versa. But, you know, to do what you can, but really just be there for someone. You know, and do what's possible. You know? Yeah. Yeah.

Andrew Adams (22:20.781)

Yep.

Andrew Adams (22:26.828)

Yeah, perfect. And then there was one more bullet point. Commitment was everything.

Nick Taber (22:34.155)

Commitment is everything. Yeah. Commitment has been one of the things about really following through. Now, when you're in the relationship about it, there's quiet moments, it's little gestures and things, remembering the favorite place or something or, you know, surprises or whatever and making time for each other. But it really is following through, you know, and

When I realized this and I realized one of the things like you don't become a black belt overnight, you know, they're I'm sure there are some nefarious places. If you pay them enough, they'll put one around your waist. But ninety nine point ninety nine percent of the places you got to earn it. And you know, but if you commit and go through it, no matter how much it sucks, you know, it really just, you know, I'm not.

feeling it today. And you know, I'm sure you and I have had this you and I have been at this a long time. You know, like I can remember some days and I had a bad day at school or something when I was a kid. But you know, it came to the point I got to go to the dojo. You know, no matter what happened, you know, one kid sat next to me with the flu and I wasn't feeling right or whatever, you know, whatever it was, but it's like I'm there.

And no matter what, you know, I'm there regardless. And you know, so a strong relationship doesn't happen overnight either. It builds over time and like back to where trustworthiness is, you know, the phrase that you can build up trust takes years and a lose it takes a second or so. You can lose a strong relationship over time.

Andrew Adams (24:02.744)

Mm-hmm.

Andrew Adams (24:21.176)

Yep, yep.

Nick Taber (24:27.445)

by taking people for granted. By taking for granted and with times we do this and we keep working at it or do those things. And yeah, let's be frank, sometimes it's tiring. They do that, but in the end of the day, I know I got somebody at my corner. And I'm committed to keeping this going above everything else. Above everything.

Andrew Adams (24:51.896)

Yeah, the the the only caveat that I wanted to talk about with this particular bullet point is you have to commit. the bullet point was commitment is everything. And when I first read that, I actually it put my bristles up on edge a little bit. My hackles like, because there are some instances where in a martial arts school setting, you might not have the right you might.

Nick Taber (24:58.264)

yeah, yeah, yeah.

Andrew Adams (25:21.452)

you can overcommit, right? You can commit blindly without asking questions. So I think it is important to recognize that a relationship, a intimate relationship with a partner and the relationship you have with your martial art instructor, obviously they're different. They should be different. We shouldn't be talking about intimate relationships with your students, but

Nick Taber (25:24.864)

Hmm.

Nick Taber (25:38.859)

Mm-hmm.

Nick Taber (25:44.224)

yeah.

Nick Taber (25:49.685)

No.

Andrew Adams (25:52.426)

You have to evaluate when you're with a romantic partner if it's the right partner for you, right? You could be dating somebody. You know, I will talk. I'll talk about myself. Number of years ago, I started dating a woman who had children and the relationship was going great, except I started to realize I am not ready to be. I'm not ready to be to have kids. I'm putting that in air quotes because they would not have been my kids. But

Nick Taber (25:58.939)

Exactly.

Andrew Adams (26:22.376)

you know, the, think people will understand where I'm getting at. I was not ready emotionally to be involved with someone with kids. And so I had to evaluate, you know what, this is not the right relationship for me. The same is true for martial arts schools. And I think that's the, that to me, that's the lesson I think that should be learned from martial arts schools. It is okay to question the martial arts school that you're in. Is this the right martial arts school for me?

Nick Taber (26:23.59)

Right, right, yeah.

Nick Taber (26:30.197)

Yeah.

Andrew Adams (26:52.942)

Cause the answer might be no, they might be so jealous of other instructors that you can't go and learn something from someone else, for example, and you might want to be a student that goes and trains with someone else. And, and so I just think it's important to keep that in mind as well. To me, that was a life that was a relationship lesson that I learned through martial arts. It's like, you have to evaluate.

Nick Taber (27:04.828)

Mmm. Mmm. Yeah.

Yeah.

Andrew Adams (27:23.028)

Is this the right Marshall place for me?

Nick Taber (27:26.912)

Yeah.

Andrew Adams (27:27.67)

And you have to take that to your relationship. Is this the right relationship for me? I getting, am I getting out of it what I want? Am I able to provide what they want?

Nick Taber (27:39.957)

Absolutely, and I mean, I think at different stages, you're correct. And I mean, when you look at it, you can tell, sometimes you can tell when you go through it. And I mean, you see some people that go through it, and I've been on this side of the fence more than I was an underbelt now, you know, where it's like, okay, but it also, I think a strength for a teacher is to tell when something might not be a fit as well.

Andrew Adams (28:07.694)

Sure, sure.

Nick Taber (28:08.027)

somebody might not be that and it's good for us, but I think the idea of committing would be from the standpoint when you get to the later side of a relationship. When you commit and when you do things, it doesn't get great right away. It doesn't get amazing. And I told like one student of mine, one of the first lessons I ever told them.

was expect to suck right away. Like you're not, it's not going to be good. It's not going to be good. At some point you're going to be amazing. Yeah, you're going to do great, but don't forget where you came from either. You know, where you came from. That's, that's a good addition too. I really like that. I thank you for that. Really do. Yeah.

Andrew Adams (28:50.956)

Yeah. Yep.

Andrew Adams (28:56.502)

Yeah, absolutely. So Nick, thank you so much for coming on. You like I said, I read the article and was like, you know what, this would be a fun episode to do. so what, you know, Jeremy and I could have done it together, but I thought, you know what, Jeremy didn't write the article, Nick wrote the article. So let's bring Nick on and chat about it.

Nick Taber (29:02.215)

man, my pleasure.

Nick Taber (29:07.391)

Happy to help, man. Yeah.

Nick Taber (29:15.905)

You

Andrew Adams (29:18.826)

If anybody is interested in writing their own articles for Marshall Journal, you certainly can do that. Go to MarshallJournal.com to find out more information. Nick, did we miss anything from your article?

Nick Taber (29:27.233)

Absolutely.

No, I just want to add one more point to it for what we had and as finding the last line. When you ask yourself for a moment, what kind of partner do I want to be and how am I showing up to become that? You know, it's always a good way to ask it. again, adding to your point with commitment, the more you know yourself, the better you're going to be. And if you take care of yourself, the better you're going to be in the long run together. So.

Andrew Adams (29:58.936)

Yeah. Awesome. Nick, thanks so much for being here. Appreciate you. Absolutely.

Nick Taber (30:04.865)

Appreciate you too, man. Appreciate you too.

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Nick Taber (30:21.899)

Yeah, and what's the cool thing that I'm wearing?

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Nick Taber (30:50.347)

Smile.