What's up everyone! Finally joined the site, I've lurked around here a while. I waste a fair amount of time on other martial arts forums so this will add to it.
I'm a filipino martial arts practitioner out of Orlando fl, I'm always down to train. Been in martial arts for 10 years started at age 20. I've tried a lot of different systems and sampled a few filipino systems. I prefer alive training that involves reacting and resisting opponents. In real life people will react and resist your defense, why train any other way? Some times I might come off as a little opinionated, I've spent a lot of time researching and developing my thoughts, but I'm always willing to consider other points of view.
I think there are some fallacies that are common among the martial arts community. Maybe I'm just a self riteous hipster but I hate hearing the same quotes and thoughts parroted without anything new added. "Be like water" yes, we've all heard it, now go train and make it happen. I've had out of shape stiff as a board guys tell this to me like its some profound thought that they made up. Another common fallacy? "It's the practitioner not the art" the statement has some truth to it but it's also just a nice friendly saying too avoid stepping on toes. The art often makes the individual, you have to look at the population of students and teachers within a system on average. This is what someone who wants to learn a style can expect from their training. Do you think you can go to a mcdojo that doesn't emphasize technique and become a skilled fighter? But "it's the individual not the system" right? There are systems that are entirely mcdojos, you can join one of these schools and improve no doubt, you can train hard and become the best in the school or system but if you are surrounded by a majority of un athletic peers you are an outlier and your time would be better spent training with like minded practitioners that can push you to reach your full potential.
Well, that's my diatribe. Keep an open mind question everything, think for yourself.
I'm a filipino martial arts practitioner out of Orlando fl, I'm always down to train. Been in martial arts for 10 years started at age 20. I've tried a lot of different systems and sampled a few filipino systems. I prefer alive training that involves reacting and resisting opponents. In real life people will react and resist your defense, why train any other way? Some times I might come off as a little opinionated, I've spent a lot of time researching and developing my thoughts, but I'm always willing to consider other points of view.
I think there are some fallacies that are common among the martial arts community. Maybe I'm just a self riteous hipster but I hate hearing the same quotes and thoughts parroted without anything new added. "Be like water" yes, we've all heard it, now go train and make it happen. I've had out of shape stiff as a board guys tell this to me like its some profound thought that they made up. Another common fallacy? "It's the practitioner not the art" the statement has some truth to it but it's also just a nice friendly saying too avoid stepping on toes. The art often makes the individual, you have to look at the population of students and teachers within a system on average. This is what someone who wants to learn a style can expect from their training. Do you think you can go to a mcdojo that doesn't emphasize technique and become a skilled fighter? But "it's the individual not the system" right? There are systems that are entirely mcdojos, you can join one of these schools and improve no doubt, you can train hard and become the best in the school or system but if you are surrounded by a majority of un athletic peers you are an outlier and your time would be better spent training with like minded practitioners that can push you to reach your full potential.
Well, that's my diatribe. Keep an open mind question everything, think for yourself.
