loki09789
Senior Master
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Paul M
Paul M
Originally posted by PAUL
In regards to "real fighting experience," I think its overrated...
..My point is that although real world experience is helpful, it doesn't make or break whether or not your a good fighter. I think that in terms of personal ability, its overrated. I think it is nice to know that FMA has been combat tested, but it doesn't need to be combat tested by ME for me to know how it "truely" works...
...I think all that S**t is stupid as hell. My instructors all had real "world experience" to draw from, yet they let their technical powress speak for itself...
... It doesn't make or break your fighting ability. If it did, then we should be encouraging each other to go out and get into fights.
That's my feeling on the subject. I am not sure if it is the same, or different then yours.
Originally posted by upnorthkyosa
I have trained in Arnis for about two years and a general type of Kali for two. I also have a long background with other striking arts. I am wondering about peoples opinions regarding the empty hand arnis techniques. Could anyone give a good comparison/contrast of these techniques to other arts?
Originally posted by DoxN4cer
I do agree that it may not make or break a persons fighting ability.
Tim Kashino
Originally posted by loki09789
The technical basis may have been generally uniform, but the concepts were the goal as well as good movment. But, how can the concepts be specific to MA and still be the 'art within your art?'
If the goal is to discover/realize the concepts through technical training, what happens when you 'get' the concept?
What happens when many/core concepts are revealed through those techniques and drills? At that point the systematic strategies and style/and how the techniques and tactics fit that system/style is understood.
Where do you take it?
Where does conceptual application end once the realization is made? On the floor? In the physical techniques?
It seems a waste to just redirect it into an even faster punch,kick,... Especially since RP presented MA as a Self Defense art.
How can this 'perfect' idea translate or 'carrying over' to everyday life and yet the concepts (which are only ideas) not be translated (another MA concept) from the small scale focus of a fight and applied as a tactical theory on the larger scale focus the entire spectrum of self defense training?
Maybe it isn't "what RP did/taught", but I think he would recognize and be excited about seeing his students take the concepts they learned through technical training and apply them to another aspect of self defense. I thought RP left a legacy of Modern Arnis, not "The traditional art of Modern Arnis."
Paul M.
Originally posted by Tgace
"If the drill you do in class is a tactics drill, then its "tactics" not Modern Arnis." -Paul J
Not to be arguementative (honestly). But if Technique and Tactics are 2 different things (which I think we agreed on), wouldnt you be doing "modern arnis" in a "Tactical Drill"? You would be doing MA in the middle of that circle right??
Now that Remy has passed away, it is up to us to do 2 things as his students. #1. we need to make sure that the art continues to grow and progress. #2. we need to make sure that the art maintains its identity.
Originally posted by loki09789
Just trying to understand how there can be a single 'body' of MA that can be identified and still have different 'bodies' out there.
Paul Martin
Originally posted by upnorthkyosa
If the art were frozen at the time of the Master's death, wouldn't that kill the art eventually?
Originally posted by Dan Anderson
There can't. Had RP set down an established curriculum with expressly delineated requirements for each belt level, there would still be someone who would come up with Modified Modern Arnis, Renegade Modern Arnis, Modern Arnis 80 or some such. The only way it could become so is by one group hiring the Corleone family and wipe out the others in one fell swoop. Then you might have a single body of MA out there.
Yours,
Dan, the Godfather fan, Anderson
Originally posted by PAUL
...Real world fighting experience can be helpful to someones improvement as a fighter, but it is not an end all be all, or even a nessicity...