Martial Art Debates

[Big Don]

Martial Arts Debates, far more entertaining than Lincoln Douglas debates

 

[grumpywolfman]

FIGHT versus flight

 

[Cyriacus]

FIGHT versus flight

Ill take being on an aeroplane over being in a head to head fight any day of the month.

 

[Instructor]

Whose lineage is legitimate...

Relative merit of distance learning...

Martial Arts v.s. Self Defense...

Endless political debate...

 

[Aiki Lee]

Ill take being on an aeroplane over being in a head to head fight any day of the month.

With the exception of American Airlines. Pieces of junk...

 

[Cyriacus]

With the exception of American Airlines. Pieces of junk...

Ive never been on an American Airline. Ill remember that, if ever i go to 'merica!

 

[RTKDCMB]

Other than 'Traditional Martial Arts vs Mixed Martial Arts' and 'Chinese Martial Arts vs Japanese Martial Arts', what other (common?) martial art-related debates are there?

Anything on this forum.

 

[Kenpo5.0Hawker]

Bruce Lee, Jet Li, The Seven Samurai, Jackie Chan or.............cold beer?

Jakie Chan had my vote befor beer was on the table...

 

[Cirdan]

Lutefisk or Nukes
Valhalla or Heaven
Valkyries or Angels
Viking Berzerk or Other inferior arts

 

[JiuJiuBJJ]

My background is with BJJ, so I only know what goes on in that arena:

Whether BJJ black belt should be have a tournament background.
Whether BJJ folks should be required to teach as part of a belt requirement - such as purples having to teach white belts.
If personal character should be considered when awarding belts.
If your jiu jitsu knowledge is "complete" if you have never trained self-defense.
If everyone should be required to train self-defense.
If you should be able to tap out most people at your belt level before you can progress to the next level.
If belts should only reflect skill.

 

[Steve]

If you should train both gi AND no-gi to be a complete grappler.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

what other (common?) martial art-related debates are there?

- Internal vs. external,
- Principle vs. technique,
- Combat vs. health,
- Keep style pure vs. cross training,
- Train maximum weight vs. train comfortable weight,
- Body unification vs. muscle group isolation,
- Judo gi vs. wrestling no-gi,
- Haymaker vs. jab/cross,
- WC stance vs. double legs,
- WC right Bon Shou vs. right punch,
- Bridging vs. no bridging,
- Bagua cross legs vs. foot sweep,
- Taiji slow training vs. praying mantis fast training,
- Form training vs. drills training,
- Vertical punch vs. horizontal punch,
- Arm bar vs. leg biting,
- ...

 

[PhotonGuy]

Should children be awarded black belts?

Well at my dojo one of the requirements for a black belt is that you have to be able to take a hit like a full grown man, so there is really no debate over whether a child should be awarded a black belt or not, at least not at my dojo.

 

[Blindside]

Well at my dojo one of the requirements for a black belt is that you have to be able to take a hit like a full grown man, so there is really no debate over whether a child should be awarded a black belt or not, at least not at my dojo.

edit: read that wrong.

How do you test this?

 

[Carol]

Well at my dojo one of the requirements for a black belt is that you have to be able to take a hit like a full grown man, so there is really no debate over whether a child should be awarded a black belt or not, at least not at my dojo.

I might flunk that test

 

[chrispillertkd]

Well at my dojo one of the requirements for a black belt is that you have to be able to take a hit like a full grown man, so there is really no debate over whether a child should be awarded a black belt or not, at least not at my dojo.

Black belt candidates have to "be able to take a hit like a full grown man"? You mean they have to be able to hit the ground writhing in pain and/or get knocked out? I'm pretty sure kids can do that. I know I've seen my share of adults do it.

Pax,

Chris

 

[TKDTony2179]

What I seen so far on this forum is how long does it take to be consider a black belt or what skills is needed to be a black belt.

With so many different arts and so many orgs there will be too many different ways of thought on the martial arts.

 

[donald1]

I Usually stuff like where a technique came from or how it used/can be used(or can't) in some way that's a question with more answers than imaginable there's a lot of situations and variations that are debatable, good question.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Should you build your foundation to be perfect before you can test your skill, or should you test your skill even if your foundation is not perfect yet?

 

[PhotonGuy]

edit: read that wrong.

How do you test this?

You hold a pad while somebody hits it. That's how they test it, by being able to hold the pad and take the full force of the impact.