thekuntawman
Purple Belt
i was going to post this on the topic about the boy in new york who killed the bouncer. but since there been a lot of talk about, why should i go to the philippines to learn, they are no better than the teachers in the US.
i dont know, but this might be the result of the opposite side of commercialized martial arts.
yes, we have deadly skills in our martial arts. yes, we can reach a lot of people from seminars and video and make the fma popular. yes more people will come if you teach how to kill somebody.
the question is, should you?
i know how to use a knife, and my students ask me about it all the time. but only when i know a students well, do i teach him. when i do, its very little, and most of it is to give him the speed and eyes to stop a knife from getting him. but my fast food students get bored, because he wants to learn right away and he will go to a teacher who will show it to him. (really, i could teach them a better technique, but they prefer the fast food style).
the knife is a serious thing, and you should not play with it. the philippine styles have so many ways to cut a throat, or somebody veins ane arteries. those things are not stuff you should show to just anyone (even your students). in the case of this kids, i dont know what happened, because anybody can figure it out, how to cut someone inner thigh. but my guess is, he was taught how to do it, and he probably was copying from his teacher, who talks about carrying the knife all the time, so now the kids want to do it too.
i been criticized before, sometimes on these forums, about my attitude about teaching the philippine martial arts, that it is not for everyone. hopefully somebody here will see what i was talking about.
the main problem with the "blade experts":
they are afraid to work on empty hands, they are afraid of hard work and exercise, they are afraid of face to face confrontation, they are afriad of taking an *** whipping, so they hide behind there blades.
you guys liked to put down moromoro for saying this, but this is the other side of commercialize martial arts, and what can happen when you miss the deep part of the "FMA", which you would learn from a filipino teacher. see they understand the philosophy of the art. even some of the ones here understand it, but like i was told so many times before, if you want to make money here, you have to give the students what they want. so to commercialize and give them what they want, you give the most dangerous techniques in the beginning, and you get more studets. most teachers back home will not do this, and this is why you have people coming back from the philippines, upset, because they did not get what they want, they didnt get the "goodies". but really, they miss out on good teaching and they come back here for the mcFMA.
the only difference is mcdojo gets you killed, mcfma can get somebody else killed.
i dont know, but this might be the result of the opposite side of commercialized martial arts.
yes, we have deadly skills in our martial arts. yes, we can reach a lot of people from seminars and video and make the fma popular. yes more people will come if you teach how to kill somebody.
the question is, should you?
i know how to use a knife, and my students ask me about it all the time. but only when i know a students well, do i teach him. when i do, its very little, and most of it is to give him the speed and eyes to stop a knife from getting him. but my fast food students get bored, because he wants to learn right away and he will go to a teacher who will show it to him. (really, i could teach them a better technique, but they prefer the fast food style).
the knife is a serious thing, and you should not play with it. the philippine styles have so many ways to cut a throat, or somebody veins ane arteries. those things are not stuff you should show to just anyone (even your students). in the case of this kids, i dont know what happened, because anybody can figure it out, how to cut someone inner thigh. but my guess is, he was taught how to do it, and he probably was copying from his teacher, who talks about carrying the knife all the time, so now the kids want to do it too.
i been criticized before, sometimes on these forums, about my attitude about teaching the philippine martial arts, that it is not for everyone. hopefully somebody here will see what i was talking about.
the main problem with the "blade experts":
they are afraid to work on empty hands, they are afraid of hard work and exercise, they are afraid of face to face confrontation, they are afriad of taking an *** whipping, so they hide behind there blades.
you guys liked to put down moromoro for saying this, but this is the other side of commercialize martial arts, and what can happen when you miss the deep part of the "FMA", which you would learn from a filipino teacher. see they understand the philosophy of the art. even some of the ones here understand it, but like i was told so many times before, if you want to make money here, you have to give the students what they want. so to commercialize and give them what they want, you give the most dangerous techniques in the beginning, and you get more studets. most teachers back home will not do this, and this is why you have people coming back from the philippines, upset, because they did not get what they want, they didnt get the "goodies". but really, they miss out on good teaching and they come back here for the mcFMA.
the only difference is mcdojo gets you killed, mcfma can get somebody else killed.