Chef Samurai
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Post by Chef Samurai on Aug 21, 2012 16:33:34 GMT -5
when it comes down to it a bad tradesman always blames his tools instead of himself meanwhile his tools are the same as every other persons tools.
every martial artist has 2 arms, 2 legs and a brain but most people can't use that brain thing as well as others and that's indisputably the most important piece.
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odee
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Post by odee on Aug 22, 2012 0:02:13 GMT -5
Don't forget the tradesmen who blame the job, the laws, the weather and the economy. Eventually tradesmen who pull that crap find they have earned themselves a reputation for being hopeless and blaming everything else. Tradesmen who get any job done or successfully specialise get good reputations. Martial Arts while similar suffer different kinds of problems. Reputation has a much bigger play and affects not just the people in question but everyone carrying the same or a similar brand. That's like all plumbers being labelled hopeless because of one guy who can't do his job. Smearing is easier too, a good example would be the UFC and the impact it had on certain styles and certain moves. For nearly a decade they branded high kicks useless then within the space of a few months several big names were put away with high kicks. The how of this is reasonably simple, people stopped believing in them, stopped using them and stopped expecting them, then others noticed the weakness and capitalised on it. Styles cop a battering from these things too, some have put those reputations to rest others haven't and probably won't, usually it's a style-centric culture that holds them back rather than any great technical flaw. Martial Arts schools can also drop a smokescreen to cover their problems and the general community's lack of understanding and lack of a desire to understand allows this smokescreen to work again and again. Chinese Martial arts have probably copped it worse than others because of both translation loss (Chi being a good example) and teachers who quite happily make use of the smokescreens while blissfully unaware that they do a bad job of it. Personally I'm a fan of the "That's not such and such a style" argument or "I see no (insert style of choice here)". Of course you don't. When somebody is suffering a beatdown you tend not to see much of their style's characteristics, you see a beatdown. My latest Kickboxing match didn't showcase any of my styles characteristics. People watching it would have seen my opponent's Muay Thai on show but all they would have seen of my training was me desperately trying to stay conscious with the most basic of ring-craft while being absolutely outclassed and hammered from one corner to the next. I'm not against any style but what is needed is more of a standard, a bit like scored meat cuts, that would make it impossible for badly run schools to survive and continue pulling down their style's reputation. Mr Darren's Kyokushin school 5-10 Mr O'Brian's Kyokushin school 8-10 Mr Murray's Kyokushin school 9-10 Mr Nay's 5 animal school 5-10 Mr Wing's 5 animal school 10-10 Obviously Mr Nay, Mr O'Brian and Mr Darren are going to suffer this system and frankly they should. It's one reason I thought early Bullshido was wonderful, then it became a witch-hunt, then a style-hunt and now their hands are tied because proof must be obtained to make accusations and can be easily knocked down with some fast talking before everything dissolves into people just mocking each other's grammar.
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