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Hello all you martial artists.
my martial arts exp - about a year and a half of shotokan, couple of months of aikido, and now slightly over 2 and a half years of Wing Tsun.
my views of martial arts and martial artists...
as far as style goes. It's not about the style. How good you get depends on three main things - regardless of what you are looking for in martial arts (health, fighting skills, confidence, whatever else) -
1. How good is your teacher (meaning how well he knows what they're teaching and how good he is at teaching it)
2. How good of a student you are (meaning how much effort and thought you put into study)
3. How smart the style you're learning is.
you can benefit from a good teacher, if you're a good student, you can benefit from a good style, if you have a good teacher, and you can benefit from being a good student if you have a good teacher who knows why the style he teaches is good...
thus, all martial artists are compared (in tournaments etc) more as people and fighters rather then representatives of their styles.
so, to conclude this intro, i wish you all have all three of the needed components and have lots of fun doing what you're doing!
p.s.
no self-praise meant by name, it's a nick i've used since before studying any martial arts, taken from bruce lee's interview and thought of as a way of looking at life...
my martial arts exp - about a year and a half of shotokan, couple of months of aikido, and now slightly over 2 and a half years of Wing Tsun.
my views of martial arts and martial artists...
as far as style goes. It's not about the style. How good you get depends on three main things - regardless of what you are looking for in martial arts (health, fighting skills, confidence, whatever else) -
1. How good is your teacher (meaning how well he knows what they're teaching and how good he is at teaching it)
2. How good of a student you are (meaning how much effort and thought you put into study)
3. How smart the style you're learning is.
you can benefit from a good teacher, if you're a good student, you can benefit from a good style, if you have a good teacher, and you can benefit from being a good student if you have a good teacher who knows why the style he teaches is good...
thus, all martial artists are compared (in tournaments etc) more as people and fighters rather then representatives of their styles.
so, to conclude this intro, i wish you all have all three of the needed components and have lots of fun doing what you're doing!
p.s.
no self-praise meant by name, it's a nick i've used since before studying any martial arts, taken from bruce lee's interview and thought of as a way of looking at life...
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