Because a coach/teacher is not the most important piece to the puzzle. They're just a source, like any other. The coach isn't helping you reach that potential any more than a book or vid. What is...
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Because a coach/teacher is not the most important piece to the puzzle. They're just a source, like any other. The coach isn't helping you reach that potential any more than a book or vid. What is...
Beyond some wrestling, Evan Tanner was largely self taught until he made it to UFC. It was then that competition was high enough he sought out a coach. I don't think anyone here is training for a...
You can learn anything from a book or video. Doctors learn from books. Pilots learn from videos.
If you think martial arts is so intellectually demanding that you can't learn from a book, then...
Learning to fight is a lot like a science lab. You can remember everything you need to know learning from a book or video. Anyone that says otherwise is just stuck in the past. Every doctor on the...
Yeah that blog by the Peter In Japan guy I have to disagree with. I lived there for 4 years and not once was I ever asked about guns or anything of the sort. The only guy that ever mentioned to me...
Based on what? Because I lived in Japan and that was never an impression that I got. The blonde hair thing was a trait they thought was appealing, much like here we like dark skin and green eyes. ...
Yeah, not only did they manage to pull the Chinese kung fu stereotype out, but they also managed to depict Mexicans as gun toting criminals. I wonder if these guys are from Texas (see what I did...
It depends on what the requirement was...
Its one thing if such and such move is simply an expression of a principle. Then yeah if the principle can be executed by a practitioner, I suppose that...