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almost forgot my password for a moment or two,
why do any martial arts at all ? well seems to answer
that best with a question why not ? 1 reason anyone
except the pain and injuries , what is martial art ?
its not like a painting centuries old that is the same long
after the artist, who painted it , in that sense does it exist
if all the martial artists were taken to another planet by
space warriors , but who would that leave if it even included
the worst with the best does't every one have hundreds of
hours of video exposure, movies ufc tv etc who isn't a backseat
martial artist these days , some walk away from just one
weekend seminar and change their name to chuckie chan seagal,
or watch slow motion in slower motion episodes of the old kung fu
series next day they are swinging a staff like the grass hopper was
shown by master poe , are they now a new martial artist, the point is
sure everyone is a painter too with a
brush only their skylines look like
blotches and trees like stick man
octopuses, but who can't paint
still who again would call themselves
painting artist after a seminar or two
Its an art almost without boundaries
beyond concise definition , or a guy
takes lessons for a few years as a teen
is he a martial artist for life now, maybe
there exist no martial arts with out
the martial artist ,but what is the
prerequisite for this wide spectrum
a martial artist is someone who laughs
in the face of full speed force at their face
and plays with it like a piro with fire like
a lion tamer calmly taunts the ferocious
lions, fact is they make it look like anyone
can not be instantly eaten if they tried it,
how much
class resistance is needed to foil their every technique
a beginner tries, if everything is fully resisted
nothing works right , but if it does somethings
wrong , this technique has seven moves yeah
,boolsht , all have 1 the first move, theres is rarely
ever a hundred percent resistance except when
2 students might get into a fight mode mid technique,
it happens , in any class though in the street its the norm
so how real it is is gauged by levels
of resistance in training style ,to learn
another has to let you do the moves,
once you learn, their role then is to not
let you, so a martial art , separates itself
at this phase , you could
say it starts with countering the counter
realizing their counter is inevitable no
matter the move, the newer students
say what do I do now, exactly this is where
it gets tricky ,where the art of it really starts
where it goes from checkers to chess, the expert
plans on your countering the first ten
or so things they do , automatically , though their
intent is its done in two moves or less , but
for them the strategies, are two sides of the same coin
though only most everyone may share the second.
just as every chess players goal is the capture of the king
yet that is just the martial part , before the art.
why do any martial arts at all ? well seems to answer
that best with a question why not ? 1 reason anyone
except the pain and injuries , what is martial art ?
its not like a painting centuries old that is the same long
after the artist, who painted it , in that sense does it exist
if all the martial artists were taken to another planet by
space warriors , but who would that leave if it even included
the worst with the best does't every one have hundreds of
hours of video exposure, movies ufc tv etc who isn't a backseat
martial artist these days , some walk away from just one
weekend seminar and change their name to chuckie chan seagal,
or watch slow motion in slower motion episodes of the old kung fu
series next day they are swinging a staff like the grass hopper was
shown by master poe , are they now a new martial artist, the point is
sure everyone is a painter too with a
brush only their skylines look like
blotches and trees like stick man
octopuses, but who can't paint
still who again would call themselves
painting artist after a seminar or two
Its an art almost without boundaries
beyond concise definition , or a guy
takes lessons for a few years as a teen
is he a martial artist for life now, maybe
there exist no martial arts with out
the martial artist ,but what is the
prerequisite for this wide spectrum
a martial artist is someone who laughs
in the face of full speed force at their face
and plays with it like a piro with fire like
a lion tamer calmly taunts the ferocious
lions, fact is they make it look like anyone
can not be instantly eaten if they tried it,
how much
class resistance is needed to foil their every technique
a beginner tries, if everything is fully resisted
nothing works right , but if it does somethings
wrong , this technique has seven moves yeah
,boolsht , all have 1 the first move, theres is rarely
ever a hundred percent resistance except when
2 students might get into a fight mode mid technique,
it happens , in any class though in the street its the norm
so how real it is is gauged by levels
of resistance in training style ,to learn
another has to let you do the moves,
once you learn, their role then is to not
let you, so a martial art , separates itself
at this phase , you could
say it starts with countering the counter
realizing their counter is inevitable no
matter the move, the newer students
say what do I do now, exactly this is where
it gets tricky ,where the art of it really starts
where it goes from checkers to chess, the expert
plans on your countering the first ten
or so things they do , automatically , though their
intent is its done in two moves or less , but
for them the strategies, are two sides of the same coin
though only most everyone may share the second.
just as every chess players goal is the capture of the king
yet that is just the martial part , before the art.
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