1) I base my art off of my various experiences with competitive grappling, military training, and personal philosophies and beliefs. My art will always evolve and adapt.
2) Not to be insultive to the arts you have mentioned, but I feel their unarmed combat techniques are too complex to be effective under combat conditions, also not enough emphasis is placed on physical attributes. For me, simpler, more direct techniques are better. Having explosive power behind them even more so.
3) It is true that there are some X kan schools in Michigan, however I have neither the time , desire ,or money, to commute a great distance to train in something that I feel does not fit me best.
I still drop in from time to time at my BJJ school, I roll at army drill during combatives and still plan to do some grappling tourneys. Brian's intensives look good to me. To me , marshalling my own resources to train and create the system which feels most right to me and works for me is more pure than anything I could do with other people's history behind it, no matter how many thousands of years it goes back.
Thanks for the reply. To respond to your above comments.
1) Do you hold rank in anything that you've studied in the past? If so, what was the rank? I ask because its one thing if someone reaches blue belt and decides to leave vs. someone who reaches BB level. I'm not advocating creating something new, I'm talking more about opening your own school. In other words, I'm a 3rd in Kenpo, I still have a teacher to train under. If I open my own school, nothing wrong with that, I'm teaching material that was passed onto me. If I was only a blue belt, it wouldn't be right to pass myself off as something I was not.
2) Are you basing this off of what you've read or heard from someone or from what you've read or seen yourself? IMHO, if I simply watch a youtube clip of the Jinenkan, it'll probably be hard for me to grasp anything, especially considering that I don't train in any of the Kans. Now, if I was to go to a Jinenkan school and see it live, well that may give me a different opinion.
3) Ok, fair enough. Then again, speaking for myself only here, but if it was me, and it was something that I really wanted, or it was a matter of training in something legit or a Mcdojo, I'd rather make the drive. Even if I only made it once a week, I could try to supplement that with a private lesson.