Didn't know that a country western singer could fix Martial Arts Systems, did you? Well, actually, his advice is for fixing autos, sort of, but it leads directly to the fighting disciplines. And it is good advice indeed.
Johnny sang a song back in the seventies called 'One Piece at a Time.' In the song he has a factory worker, who will never be able to afford a Cadillac, sneak one off the assembly line 'one piece at a time.' Unfortunately, the pieces were smuggled out over a 20 year time period, and the assembled vehicle was quite the mess.
1958 hub caps over 1967 tires. 1959 tail lights with a 1973 rear end. The thing was a mess beyond proportion and manufactured by rediculosity, and that brings us to the martial arts.
That grip twist flip throw you learned in Hapkido, it's actually a Japanese trick built for Samurais. That pressure point for bringing 'em to tears, it's actually taught better in Tai Chi Chuan schools because...uh, well, because. And that slick punch combo you just learned at Shotokan fighting class, it looked better in Ed Parker Chinese Kenpo Karate.
You see, every system in existence, all of them, are cobbled together out of the bits and pieces of different countries, different religions, different mindsets. The forms and patterns are really frankenstein miscalculations. The techniques are a hodge podge put together out of whatever came to hand.
Look, I'm not speaking ill of the beast, on the contrary, I think that people did the best they could. Unfortunately, no matter how sterling the core concepts in one's art, they are a casting of many metals, prone to come apart at the worst time. And the real concepts have been hidden, transfigured, melded to fit another concept, and the true martial art is not in evidence.
People, you see, for more centuries than you can count, have assembled tricks into arts, and this jury rig of art has confused and made obscure the real truths of the combative methods. Consider the reality, for thousands of years people have made art, driven a vehicle, as it were, and not once has anybody ever stopped and tried to take it all apart, shine the pieces up, and put them back together in the right method. And there is a right method; there is a true art.
The true art is defined by physics, but not a normal physics, a physics that is pertinent to bodies, combat, and the falling of an apple out of a tree. A physics that is not obvious for the simple reason of being too close to the eyeballs. At any rate, if one could succeed in Fixing the various Martial Arts Systems they would end up with faster reaction times (no reaction times), because all the data would be logical and more easily accessed, and systems that could be taught much, much, much faster. - 42569
Johnny sang a song back in the seventies called 'One Piece at a Time.' In the song he has a factory worker, who will never be able to afford a Cadillac, sneak one off the assembly line 'one piece at a time.' Unfortunately, the pieces were smuggled out over a 20 year time period, and the assembled vehicle was quite the mess.
1958 hub caps over 1967 tires. 1959 tail lights with a 1973 rear end. The thing was a mess beyond proportion and manufactured by rediculosity, and that brings us to the martial arts.
That grip twist flip throw you learned in Hapkido, it's actually a Japanese trick built for Samurais. That pressure point for bringing 'em to tears, it's actually taught better in Tai Chi Chuan schools because...uh, well, because. And that slick punch combo you just learned at Shotokan fighting class, it looked better in Ed Parker Chinese Kenpo Karate.
You see, every system in existence, all of them, are cobbled together out of the bits and pieces of different countries, different religions, different mindsets. The forms and patterns are really frankenstein miscalculations. The techniques are a hodge podge put together out of whatever came to hand.
Look, I'm not speaking ill of the beast, on the contrary, I think that people did the best they could. Unfortunately, no matter how sterling the core concepts in one's art, they are a casting of many metals, prone to come apart at the worst time. And the real concepts have been hidden, transfigured, melded to fit another concept, and the true martial art is not in evidence.
People, you see, for more centuries than you can count, have assembled tricks into arts, and this jury rig of art has confused and made obscure the real truths of the combative methods. Consider the reality, for thousands of years people have made art, driven a vehicle, as it were, and not once has anybody ever stopped and tried to take it all apart, shine the pieces up, and put them back together in the right method. And there is a right method; there is a true art.
The true art is defined by physics, but not a normal physics, a physics that is pertinent to bodies, combat, and the falling of an apple out of a tree. A physics that is not obvious for the simple reason of being too close to the eyeballs. At any rate, if one could succeed in Fixing the various Martial Arts Systems they would end up with faster reaction times (no reaction times), because all the data would be logical and more easily accessed, and systems that could be taught much, much, much faster. - 42569
About the Author:
Al Case is the only person on the planet that actually fixes Martial Arts systems. Head over to his website, Monster Martial Arts, and pick up an absolutely free ebook.
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