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jade_dragon · 07-03-2006, 09:24 PM

What did training have to do with performing for a crowd like a trained monkey in a shopping mall or showing how "powerful" I am by breaking cinder blocks and balsa wood?

Training within a school is training within a school, actively fighting against others in your school, your teacher, your instructors, and members from other schools within your school or another school is drastically differant than changing the origins of your art to fit within the confines of winning a sporting event.

Many people have lost sight of what martial arts are and what they are for. Martial or military in nature, meant to kill or seriously hinder the progress of an oppponent, it is also much more than that, it goes into the mental also. My form of kung fu is completely worthless in an event like UFC, the movements are not meant to hit for points or knock out, they are meant to dehabilitate and kill, eye gouges, ear rips, finger breaks, locks, I was never taught how to fight someone who wanted to win a game, I box for that.....

How do I know what I have learned? Avoiding situations, avoiding fights, being able to defend myself when someone is hell bent on fighting, these are the marks of weither it works, not because one person from your school or in the same "art" as you can fight in a tournement hahaha. There are fools down here locally with thousands, YES THOUSANDS of "tournement" wins yet I have seen their instructors and students get waxed by better and lower ranked fighters for many reasons.

I can not blame you or anyone else for their misconceptions on martial arts in their pure or original sense, there is so much fluff and bullshit out there that I am happy that I have come across people who have been able to show me how to see for myself instead of telling me what to look for. The best and true answer to your question, the one with the most relevance to martial arts is "If I have trained well enough then I will not have to find out" it may sound stupid or like a bunch of shit, but it is all anyone can ever hope for.

07-03-2006, 09:24 PM
jade_dragon Confirmed User Join Date: May 2004 Location: NEW ORLEANS/Baton Rouge BABY! Posts: 1,737	What did training have to do with performing for a crowd like a trained monkey in a shopping mall or showing how "powerful" I am by breaking cinder blocks and balsa wood? Training within a school is training within a school, actively fighting against others in your school, your teacher, your instructors, and members from other schools within your school or another school is drastically differant than changing the origins of your art to fit within the confines of winning a sporting event. Many people have lost sight of what martial arts are and what they are for. Martial or military in nature, meant to kill or seriously hinder the progress of an oppponent, it is also much more than that, it goes into the mental also. My form of kung fu is completely worthless in an event like UFC, the movements are not meant to hit for points or knock out, they are meant to dehabilitate and kill, eye gouges, ear rips, finger breaks, locks, I was never taught how to fight someone who wanted to win a game, I box for that..... How do I know what I have learned? Avoiding situations, avoiding fights, being able to defend myself when someone is hell bent on fighting, these are the marks of weither it works, not because one person from your school or in the same "art" as you can fight in a tournement hahaha. There are fools down here locally with thousands, YES THOUSANDS of "tournement" wins yet I have seen their instructors and students get waxed by better and lower ranked fighters for many reasons. I can not blame you or anyone else for their misconceptions on martial arts in their pure or original sense, there is so much fluff and bullshit out there that I am happy that I have come across people who have been able to show me how to see for myself instead of telling me what to look for. The best and true answer to your question, the one with the most relevance to martial arts is "If I have trained well enough then I will not have to find out" it may sound stupid or like a bunch of shit, but it is all anyone can ever hope for. __________________ even ADULTS need TOYS icq: 3 6 3 2 6 6 6 7 \| aim: conglomorateman open for business, affiliates and friendships