my thoughts on "formal"

[dustIn credible]

Just thought i'd throw this in. Everyone has condridictions, everyones a hypocritic. Weither or not they admit it or not is the difference between honesty(truth) and deception(untruth) of ones self. Honestly expressing yourself is the key. Weither the expression is hypocriticaly of what your originally speaking on or not doesnt matter. Controdictions(hypocriticism) is apart of the growth of a human as truth is reviled the falsehoods left behind will be what we call controdictions, i call growth from puberity to maturity in MA. I have come to a point in MA formal training where i have nothing left i feel to learn from them(this is for fighting and self defense purposes, now id love to go to China or somewhere to train in the old ways but not for self defense or fighting) Ive found truth in religion and mylife im finding it in the martial arts. Seems like all the instructors ive seen on TV and in person want a mimic of themselves. They dont want you to do the techniques in a confortable manner, they want it done text book fashion. I dont see the probably in doing a "untext book" technique if it is effective for the purpose your using it for. Why would you want to put yourself in a position you dont feel comfortable with from the get go, apply the technique, and hope that someday with enough repetition, you'll be comfortable. Why not just make a slight variation and do it "your way" the most comfortable yet efficient way you can? Hope this makes sense. I dont mean to offend anyone. You all have some thoughts?

"unless human being have 3 arms and 4 legs we will have a different style of fighting."-Bruce Lee


remember "le style, c'est l'homme" (the style is the man) the man makes the style, the style doesnt make the man.

[Xio]

You do know i think you're absolutly right? Cause i do :cool: Of course MA is different for every man. And if it's your own way, it will be the best.

I'm glad you realise that training in MA not for the purpose of fighting is good. I believe in training against yourself for the purpose of self improvement. Not so that you can kill a man with a single blow.

[dustIn credible]

Well Thak You Xio. Ive been rethinking MA for about the last year now. Just trying ot put the feelings into words, which is very hard to do.

[Xio]

Yup, extremely hard to do. English doesn't have the right words to explain it.

Actually writing down a philosophy is soooooo hard, it's probably impossible to get it exactly right. And others may interpret it in different ways.

Freedom is the most important thing in MA.

[Albert]

Actually i work towards the skill to kill a man in a single blow, but, like you said, its for my self improvement.

[brothershaw]

THe thing is hopefully whoever is teaching you textbook techniques is teaching you techniques that have already been proven to work if done correctly. Of course there will be smoe small variation based on the persons involved, but they are giving you a frame work. Its like learning math in school, you do the sample problems and the homework to learn the math and eventually you can do any problem even if it donest look like the sample problems you learned. But it takes time and practice and there is no way around time and practice.