I don't think the printed and graphic artifacts are necessary to learning, but they do have a purpose, one solved in other ways as well.
A smart fighter will be a better fighter.
Rote learning is one thing, but fundamental. Mindfulness in training gives you more responsive and strategic skills to augment those core tools. Training aids like that make people think and consider their training, try new things, explore and develop personal style, as they explore masterfully crafted indecipherably pluralistic memes.
Connecting thinking and doing is the proof of the fighter, not the training aids.
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Agree for the most part but variations will still consist of Daoist solutions. Daoist Magical Fork Form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6SB6...x=2&playnext=2
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Demonstrations by the Celestial Master. Uptown Daodojo.
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The source or theory behind something one finds useful is not particularly important, especially in Chinese metaphysics. It is either seen as useful or not.
Who cares what someone else uses to come up with ideas? Most of the analysis I've seen of using five elements is not particularly out there, even if the metaphysical basis is.
People approach Chinese philosophy and metaphysics as though it were Western philosophy and metaphysics. The difference is that, on the Chinese end, people actually sought to use it, which meant, in the long run, lots of practical approaches that may work regardless of whether the idea that inspired them is correct.
I don't know real fighters of any stripe not on the internet who worry about this at all. Not from judo, bjj, muay thai, boxing. Not a single one.
It's a hobby held by a narrow group who work at computers all day.
I discovered this by doing a reading from the i ching.
Well, i hear the real deal to study is the G ChingIt's a hobby held by a narrow group who work at computers all day.
I discovered this by doing a reading from the i ching.