Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
It's getting better but its still a far cry from being open door.
It's an ego and money thing for a lot of traditonal teachers........the typical....."you mean you think I don't have the answers" comeback.
People should take responsibility for their own right to self protection, this has zero to do with ego, make your self defense training more like dipping into a educated & sweat equity invested tapas bar and your better off in my view
I think the 'complete' martial art involves ICBM's.
I'd like to know when the definition of a complete system became "jack of all trdes, master of none."
If you get everything you feel you need from one system, then it is complete for you. As no two people need exactly the same thing from a martial art, no system will be perfect for everyone.
Last edited by Becca; 02-28-2008 at 09:31 AM.
CMA has always been a "jack of all trades" set up.
Ti Da Shuai Na
Western boxing, TKD, Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, etc... all specialize; where as, a complete CMA style should contain elements of all these systems.
Afterall, why learn 18 weapons when you can only fight with one?
Because you don't at first know which weapon you will have the leaning towards. PLus you have to understand teh different properties of different weapons, long, short, bladed, flexible, double, combined and so on. The 18 contain pretty much every variation of blunt, bladed, flexible and double weapons you're gonna need.
Kung Fu is good for you.
The thing is that we as CMA stylists need to realize that you can't be all things- or that we can't do all things well. We need to realize that were generalists in the fact that we have a general understanding of the different areas, but that we really need to find something to specialize in- or- we accept that were generalists and don't pretend to be more than that. What I've seen by other posters is a real problem in CMA- the thought that were somehow gods of fighting in all ranges. We're mediocre at best unless we focus on at least one aspect.
Last edited by MasterKiller; 02-28-2008 at 10:41 AM.
Yes, and what else?
How good are they VS the knife? the stick?, how good are they with Gi, without Gi?
Bareknuckle? etc, etc...
Well rounded is one thing, complete is another and you will never find a complete system, and if you do, they will not be as good at A, for example as a school that specializes in A.
Just the way it is.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !