ShaolinWood
03-18-2004, 04:37 AM
I've spoken to some of my friends about reaching mastery and where we want to end up with our training, and it's quite an interesting debate, especially with so many different objectives from practitioner to practitioner.
I mostly strive to be able to win a fight without having to hurt the apponent.
This to me reqires the most training and is a very high level of skill.
Just pulling of a successful chin na is a high level of skill and it is much easier to use offence, like punches or other strikes to stop the attacker.
Dr Yang Jwing Ming said that one should only start considering using Chin na after 10 years of hard training, and he has a point!
The risk you put yourself into is far greater when you attempt doing a chin na and fail than when you go for strikes.
I read a thread a while back about martial arts training counting against you in court, the point was risen that "You have the skill to stop a fight without hurting the attacker" but what people fail to understand is that that SKILL is a very high level of training and that it is safer to just hurt someone.
And that is propably a good guidline to control oneself to not get in a situation where you have to display your inability to control.
I'm NOT saying anyone who hurts an apponent is NOT a master!!!
I'm suggesting that if someone is truely a master he would not have to...
I mostly strive to be able to win a fight without having to hurt the apponent.
This to me reqires the most training and is a very high level of skill.
Just pulling of a successful chin na is a high level of skill and it is much easier to use offence, like punches or other strikes to stop the attacker.
Dr Yang Jwing Ming said that one should only start considering using Chin na after 10 years of hard training, and he has a point!
The risk you put yourself into is far greater when you attempt doing a chin na and fail than when you go for strikes.
I read a thread a while back about martial arts training counting against you in court, the point was risen that "You have the skill to stop a fight without hurting the attacker" but what people fail to understand is that that SKILL is a very high level of training and that it is safer to just hurt someone.
And that is propably a good guidline to control oneself to not get in a situation where you have to display your inability to control.
I'm NOT saying anyone who hurts an apponent is NOT a master!!!
I'm suggesting that if someone is truely a master he would not have to...