Danjo
Master Black Belt
"It is doubtful that anyone truly understands the "One True Way" of strategy, and certainly no one completely embodies it. However, warlords must have some grasp of strategy and they must teach it to their warriors, despite their own limited grasp. There is no one way to mastery, whichever way a man may proceed. Every form and style is ordered by the universal mind that enables one to approach mastery."---Musashi Myamoto (Book of Five Rings)
I thought this quote was interesting because it expresses a truism that many have said in one way or another. The style or art that one starts in is not so important as the starting itself. No one style is "perfect" nor does any one style have a complete grasp of fighting. I think that we all begin somewhere, and then we either continue on that same path towards mastery, or else we find that what we began with was not the be all and end all we hoped for and we find something that suits us better. It took me a long time to find Kajukenbo, for instance. I have found something that will challenge me for the rest of my life, but there were many years of other things that I trained in or tried that enabled me to recognize the value of what I ultimately found. Everyone's different, and what suits one, may not suit another, but getting there is the important thing.
How many here began the martial arts in something other than what they are training in now? For me it was Shotokan to brown belt, then a smattering of a lot of other things (JKD, Aikido, Judo, Boxing, Ninjitsu, Hsing-I, Tai Chi, and BJJ), then SKK to brown belt, before Kajukenbo.
I thought this quote was interesting because it expresses a truism that many have said in one way or another. The style or art that one starts in is not so important as the starting itself. No one style is "perfect" nor does any one style have a complete grasp of fighting. I think that we all begin somewhere, and then we either continue on that same path towards mastery, or else we find that what we began with was not the be all and end all we hoped for and we find something that suits us better. It took me a long time to find Kajukenbo, for instance. I have found something that will challenge me for the rest of my life, but there were many years of other things that I trained in or tried that enabled me to recognize the value of what I ultimately found. Everyone's different, and what suits one, may not suit another, but getting there is the important thing.
How many here began the martial arts in something other than what they are training in now? For me it was Shotokan to brown belt, then a smattering of a lot of other things (JKD, Aikido, Judo, Boxing, Ninjitsu, Hsing-I, Tai Chi, and BJJ), then SKK to brown belt, before Kajukenbo.
