I personally look at the arts as a circle. In order to complete that circle you should be perpared for any situation you come against weither it is physical, mental, or tactical. At our school we train in several different arts but still keep a traditional atmosphere, we wears gis, have ranks, testing, bow, yes sir no sir, respect, etc...we work hard and take it serious. Not what you call a Mcdojo I think is the term. Some schools focus on one style only, what I call a stylist. Not that is a bad thing necessarily. How do you look at yourself when it comes to this?
2007-07-05 02:02:43 · 8 answers · asked by IIIxKrazy 3 in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
Here's how I look at it. Martial art styles are a language. What great philosopher was able to write his books without a language? None. The language used (English, French, Russian, Mandarin, Arabic) is NOT the philosophy. Just like a Map of America isn't America, it's a piece of paper.
So, we learn a martial style to come to the higher principles of the end game. A style is a roadmap to get us to understand the physics of our bodies and of fighting on a more base level. Training in many styles is like speaking English but knowing what a Rodeo (Spanish) or a Coup De Grace (French) is. Many think you a brute if you don't understand these terms. Just as many think your martial art style is less if you know nothing of ground work, and nothing of the physics of knockout punching, or pressure points and joint manipulation.
Still, you walk on the back of every martial stylist that has come before you. Whether you show them any honor or not is up to you, but you're still in debt to the blood they spilled coming to conclusions you utilize.
2007-07-05 02:12:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am a martial artist, but my primary style is Filipino Kuntaw. It is a concept-based art. Anything that fits the formula of:
1. Remove
2. Control
3.Counter
4. Reset
can be adapted into your arsonal of weapons. Here's a simple exaplme of this formula in use:
A throws a punch at B. B Steps to the side while defecting the attack (Remove), pin the punch against A's body (Control), B hits A in the ribs (Counter), B retracts strike and prepairs to deliver another (Reset).
I use and apply this formula along with the philosophy of Kuntaw whenever I train. I train not only in my art, but with as many styles as I can. If I am taught something that could be useful, I'll keep it. If it's crap, reject it and try to learn something from the experience.
2007-07-05 05:38:17 · answer #2 · answered by Kuntawista 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At a Tae Soo Do black belt test, the regional Hwarang Do master, who is a 4th degree blacksash, commented on one black belt candidate's statement, "I feel like i've just got to a mountain of knowledge and the past two years has just been the journey." The master said, "no you are still getting to the mountain, when you get to 1st dan, you feel like you are about to climb the mountain, then comes second dan. I've been doing this for the past 30 years and I don't think I have barely scratched the surface." I think a master is somebody who has accumulated and perfected a vast amount of knowledge but still has the wisdom to realize that they still know very little. Even me as a lowly green belt, after practicing the same form for a year, when I think I finally have the form down perfect, a higher rank comes up to me and tells me something about the form that I had never though of before. Then I feel like I'm right back at the beginning, learning it all over again from a different point of view.
2016-05-18 22:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martial Artist 1st, San Soo Stylist second. I Love and Prefer San Soo as a single art more than others but I love em all enough to want em all.
2007-07-05 04:06:21 · answer #4 · answered by Firefly 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born and raised US Military...Styles changed from base to base but I keep training...I am a Martial Artist. I do prefer Okinawan based styles though. Just fits me best.
Sensei Strickler
2007-07-05 02:17:06 · answer #5 · answered by TsunamiDojo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definitely not a stylist. I've been in and out of so many different dojo's that I could easily be called a bastard child of several styles.
2007-07-05 05:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by pm 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
i do my style..... well im not to that point yet.. but thats the idea study whatever i need to fill that gaps regardless of country of origin or weather its traditional or sport or what... right now im studyin 1-3 arts depending on how you look at it... and i suck... dam i need to train more
2007-07-05 16:55:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a martial artist.
2007-07-05 03:55:07 · answer #8 · answered by Ray H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋