Can anyone tell me what is needed to create and get recognized a new martial arts style?

Answer 1

In my opinion you will need a background in an established style. You would also need a very good working knowledge of the human anatomy. This question comes up from time to time and usually someone will point out that someone had to be the first to develop every style.

Most "new styles" are combinations or mixes of established martial arts.

Getting your style recognized is going require competition. To be successful you need to develop a better defensive tactic, or a series of offensive moves to set you apart. Of course both must be unique and effective.

Good Luck

Answer 2

Any martial art will give you an edge in a street fight, though some are more practical than others. Sport fighters are usually very tough because they are athletes and because they constantly challenge themselves. Combat arts on the other hand are a little more specific to injury or death, as they were designed for warfare.....and you do tend to fight how you train. Even if you add dirty tricks as an afterthought, its the skills that come automatic without having to think about it that you become most proficient in. If you are use to going for submission, you will probably submit your attacker. If you are trained to apply a different angle to break the elbow instead of use it for submission, that is probably what you will do when you dont have time to think about it. That doesnt mean that a combat martial artist is better than a sports fighter though. If the sports fighter is a better athlete, he might be the more formidable fighter. Unless you are serious about devoting yourself to competition fighting, I think that traditional or modern combat arts are probably better for self defense. Some of these arts include.... Systema Some forms of traditional karate. Traditional Japanese Jujitsu. Krav Maga Ninjutsu Keysi fighting system lots of others.... Aikido is another art designed for keeping you safe, but they are almost like pacifists and dont try to harm their attackers. The best thing to do in a street fight though is to run the other way, even if you think you can win. You never know how many friends are waiting behind the corner, or who has a gun or a knife.

Answer 3

to create a realistic style that actually can be applied in a realistic combat situation?

lets just say if you have to ask, your understanding of fighting is not even close to the level it needs to be at for you to be able to create something.

First off, you need to have a basis of understanding how fighting really works. Learning from a good teacher that teaches realistically is the best and quickest way to get this base. The other way is illegal and could subject you to death, serious permanent injury or prison and you might not even learn anything. That would be to go out and pick fights with as many people as you can.

Second, once you have a firm grasp and understanding of what you have been taught and how it works in a realistic situation- and you see that it does, you are then ready to modify the parts of your art and blend it with other techniques that need to be modified to close some kind of gap or improve on what already exists.

Odds are, unless you completely devote your life to training in martial arts you will not do any more modifications beyond personal stylistic "what works for me, my body type and my stregth level" which is basically just primarily using your favorite techniques over ones you aren't as good with.

This is not really "discovering" something new. Its what one SHOULD be doing as a fighter and martial artist. Even untrained street fighters have habits they use that work for them. They might not always be the most effective technique, but then again, maybe your favorite isn't the most effective either. This is why MA is a constant study that never ends.

third, the quickest and best way to have it recognized by the masses is to raise a fighter in it and have him compete in a publicized forum like the UFC. Either that or painstakingly go and challenge many recognized and respected masters of different arts.

best to not waste your time thinking about such foolishness right now and go find a teacher to give you the basics you need to fight. Then once you have the base to understand and even formulate a valid opinion on the matter then you can look at the flaws.

Answer 4

You must first ask yourself what is your desired outcome? Recognition? Fame? Wealth? With all due respect, if you answered yes to any of the above what you want is not in spirit with true martiallism. The truth is there are many many many hybrid styles and offshoots of each and every style. Bruce Lee made famous the "take anything that works and discard the rest" philosophy. It's possible from a marketing perspective to convince people you created a style but there are only so many ways a human body can move, punch kick, grapple whatever. There truly is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before. Unless you have long life experience and true dedicated blood sweat and tears training you cant do it.True martiallists will see through any "fake"marketing ploys. If you want to create a sport (UFC style) go ahead but My issue with you is that if you try to create a "self defense" style and you have no knowledge and passion for wanting to save peoples lives with S**t that really works, then your responsible for the lives and safety of students who would put their faith in a style whose sole purpose of creation was for ego. Beware: Pride goeth before destruction. Much respect. Train for the sake of training to better yourself.

Answer 5

Spend the next thirty years or so of your life studying one authentic style and you might slowly come to the realisation that it will still take another 30 years to get somewhere near (but not quite) perfect in that one style. Then you will probably understand how long it takes to create a proper martial art, not some bull crap churned out by businessmen. This is why most martial arts styles are thousands of years old, or can trace their ancestry to other styles from centuries before, because it takes that long to get it right. You certainly won't get it right in your lifetime. Save your time and energy and join a martial art that is already established.

Answer 6

Martial arts schools are business's just get a business name tax file number etc like a normal business and make sure you have insurance then open a school you can even rent a hall from a school or churh and teach there.

As far as making it your own style just name it what you want and tell people the truth behind where it came from for example if you studied karate and judo and wanted to make a style that is a combo of both tell your students that you studied karate and judo and combined the to to make karate-ju or what ever you wanna call it.

lots of people make up style infact id say someone made up all of them look at go kan ryu that i studied it was made up by a guy called bob sullivan a couple of other styles that have been made up are zen do kai and kin bushi ryu.

Answer 7

First of all come up with a catchy name for it. Calling it something like "Green Dragon Karate" just makes it sound cheesy.

Then you need to get a lot of students. The more you can get doing your style of martial arts the better.

Then you need to do some kind of demonstration to show how much better your style is compared to the others out there. If your moves are all flash and no substance then you won't get any kind of recognition. Big tournaments are a good way to showcase this. But make sure it works. We've all seen how George Dillman is able to knock his students out without touching them, but when he tries his technique on people that don't believe in his "human taser" abilities he winds up looking foolish and making excuses about it. Honestly, if just thinking that a technique doesn't work on you is enough to disrupt it, then it can't be that good a technique now can it?

And finally you need the press. You need people to talk positively about your style on message boards, in magazines and on TV. Otherwise you wind up like "yellow bamboo" and become more of an internet joke than a legitimate style.

Answer 8

The short and quick answer: create something that's significantly different then what's out there. Then develop a huge stable of students (at least hundreds) that claim your style, or win some major national or worldwide competitions. And, even in the second case you probably still need some students. Anything less than this will not show up in the worldly media or organizations listings.

Answer 9

I don't know who is thumbing down Bluto, but he's the only one telling you the truth from the perspective of being able to fight

If you want your own style and you want to deserve it, you START by being a really really really (have I mentioned REALLY?) good fighter. You do that by beating other good fighters. When you can do that, you can start thinking about a style of your own.

Otherwise, you might as well just buy a belt from one of the 'halls of fame' on the internet and call yourself great grandmaster shidoshi soke. You'll be able to sell belts to the naive, but you'll still be a charlatan.

Spend your energy learning to fight. The rest will come naturally, and you'll be a much happier person.

Answer 10

That's easy. I'll show you how in 12 easy steps:
1. First, you need to get yourself a black belt(any would do).
2. Then you need to create a new way of defending yourself in a fight, it can be anything from blocking punches with your face or slapping your opponent's face with your schlong.
3. Then you need to give it a really cool name like Ultra Magnetic Torpedo Fist or Super Fantastic Krazee Box Kicking.
4. Get yourself an army of students, the more the merrier, then you need to certify some of them as blackbelts in your new style of fighting.
5. Start calling yourself a Grandmaster.
6. As proof that you earned step no. 5, travel to Asia and other exotic places around the world like Timbuktu and take souvenir pictures with the natives there, then have the pictures framed and displayed in your gym alongside your framed certificates of Grandmastery in your own style.
7. Go to a genuine Chinese Restaurant and buy as much fortune cookies as you can and memorize as many fortunes as you can, then use these nuggets of wisdom during your classes and interviews.
8. Write a book about your style or have someone help you make an autobiography about your life and on how you became a Grandmaster.
9. Try to get a producer to make a movie about you.
10. Create a website on the internet detailing your style and post as many pictures of yourself in great fighting poses as you can.
11. If you do all these and someone tries to challenge you in your own gym, accept the challenge after a long period of humble refusal on grounds of not wanting to hurt them. Then make sure you take videos of your challenge match. When you finally get your butt kicked to the ground, tell your opponent to be grateful to you for your restraint in not hurting his knuckles and shin with your deadly face block.
12. Post your fight on youtube and watch as the number of viewers grow everyday to an incredible ratings breaking figure.

Congratulations! You have now become very famous and the name of your style has become a household word.