I am liking it. If you believe in making the weight of the weapon do the work, you can really start to relax, and focus on speed and alignment.
I am liking it. If you believe in making the weight of the weapon do the work, you can really start to relax, and focus on speed and alignment.
Your hand is the weapon. Unless you are hitting with your hip; then, of course, the hip would, then, be the weapon. I hope that is clear.
Of course there's also:More cliches that makes me go
-Martial arts make kids violent.
-Martial artists can suddenly fly off the handle in a blur of strikes while yelling WHAIIIIIIIII!!!!
-Old martial artists are soooo wise in the ways of the world.
-Secret underground to the death MA tournaments.
-Martial artist spar full contact with lethal techniques and real sharp weapons all the time.
-All martial artists are acrobats who can do a double screw somersault with ease.
I agree with the first one, laugh at the second one.
,,, Now, what the hell is wrong with the idea that martial arts is a discipline, and that you might possibly teach that to their kids?Martial arts won't teach you or your kid discipline, any more than football or wrestling or religion class or music or anything else will -- by itself. Train in a class where discipline is expected, modeled, and part of the atmosphere, and you'll develop traits of discipline. I've seen some schools do a great job instilling discipline. I've seen plenty that pay lip service, but don't really model or instill discipline.I agree with the first one, laugh at the second one.
Learning a discipline, instills discipline. You can judge how well or how poorly a school does it, but what is wrong with music and football? What does it take for you to decide discipline was instilled, and by what?
I agree with the first one, laugh at the second one.
Discipline is not allowing yourself to fail. If you need others pick up your slack, you are undisciplined. We are all tryin'... What?
I would say that refusing to fail, picking yourself up and going on again and again, is perseverance, not discipline.
The control is gained by a series of punishments: First by you parents; teachers; and hopefully yourself. Of course we have an entire police force set up for those that fail the third thing, but the key is adherence to a standard. I don't disagree with you, but you have to go through those first two gates.
And...Then the Nazis were disciplined, yes?
Sometimes al Qaeda?/
Hezbollah?
Boko Haram?
The Red Brigades?
The KKK?
Aryan Nations?
or, if one prefers, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the U.S. army, some police forces, some martial artists, professional criminals, pro athletes, world class chess-players ("world class" anything), arbitragers, stock brokers, ministers,priests, rabbis, devil-worshipers, and more than a few of my sex partners.....
Discipline is a means to an end, and never and end in itself.[/b]
Is punishment the only way to get that behavior?The control is gained by a series of punishments: First by you parents; teachers; and hopefully yourself. Of course we have an entire police force set up for those that fail the third thing, but the key is adherence to a standard. I don't disagree with you, but you have to go through those first two gates.
) or it can be used to produce negative outcomes -- like the Nazi death camp machine or suicide bombers.
And "discipline" (for those who know what the word means) is a means to an end, and never an end in itself.
Only when you don't value the standard.
The virtue is holding to the standard. You can go and debate the standard all you want, but a disciplined person is an end to itself.
