KyKarateka
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Post by KyKarateka on Sept 8, 2013 22:23:01 GMT -5
What are some common misconceptions about martial arts? Someone asked me to write a report on this so I was just looking for some place to get started.
Thanks guys, KyK.
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spiritumliberus
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Post by spiritumliberus on Sept 10, 2013 13:53:23 GMT -5
The one that I can think at the moment are :
-Martial Arts are about fighting only, you train your body so that you can be able to kick someone's ass when you want and need to
-There are some secret strikes that can kill you instantly or make you a dead man walking (a lot of people believe it )
-If you have a black belt,you are to be feared because you are a master of the art
-White belts are underestimated sometimes, or people who have a lower rank, forgetting that the belt does not show your fighting skills
-The difference between a Match , The Ranking system and a real life situation
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KyKarateka
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Post by KyKarateka on Sept 10, 2013 18:06:25 GMT -5
Those are some great ones I'm going to note down.
Some I came up with are:
- Martial arts are dangerous. This is false most of the time because injuries sustained during martial arts training are often not very severe. Cuts and bruises are common but more serious injuries like concussions and broken bones rarely happen. In my opinion, football (American) players experience more severe and more frequent injuries than martial artists do.
- Martial arts make practitioners violent by teaching them how to fight. Also false. Martial arts teach individuals how to adequately apply techniques in a combat situation. Though several schools emphasize non violence, it doesn't change how a student would react outside the training environment.
I think these are the biggest two that deter people from martial arts. If they were more aware of these myths I think there would be a big shift in views for some people.
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Post by odee on Oct 1, 2013 15:30:51 GMT -5
What deters people from martial arts is the fact that fighting hurts, that brings me nicely to the misconceptions that annoy me the most.
- People can learn martial arts without sparring.
- The Karate Kid is one giant misconception.
- Chi, Qi and Ki.
- Combat Sports being no use in self defense.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2013 21:57:01 GMT -5
MMA is always better than TMA's
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odee
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Post by odee on Oct 3, 2013 14:40:24 GMT -5
That's a good point Frasier, there are no hard-fast rules in martial arts.
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KyKarateka
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Post by KyKarateka on Oct 3, 2013 20:17:14 GMT -5
One I seem to come across a lot is that martial artists are unbeatable against untrained fighters. Sure they have an advantage but are definitely not unbeatable.
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odee
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Post by odee on Oct 4, 2013 6:43:53 GMT -5
That's actually kind of debatable. I'm not saying that there aren't some damn good untrained fighters out there but the ones who make a habit of picking off martial artists usually do train, they train by doing.
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KyKarateka
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Post by KyKarateka on Oct 5, 2013 20:02:56 GMT -5
Sorry, I don't know what you're saying Odee, care to elaborate? I got very little sleep last night.
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Post by odee on Oct 9, 2013 6:36:21 GMT -5
Sorry it took so long to get a stable connection with the cage. While I believe that all martial artists should be fighters I know there are plenty of fighters with no martial training, people who've been tough enough, resiliant enough or just plain lucky enough to survive fights and learn from them. what's debatable is that they aren't trained, they're not formally trained like us but they are trained, their teacher is experience.
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KyKarateka
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Post by KyKarateka on Oct 9, 2013 22:47:00 GMT -5
But everyone needs experience even if they are trained formally, no amount of training is like an actual fight so in that respect these street fighters can be pretty decent figters provided they have a lot of experience.
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Post by Chino on Oct 11, 2013 22:00:40 GMT -5
I always felt thats how training began, 1 guy probably got in alot of fights daily and noticed that he could pretend fight(spar) with a friend and practicing things he could do in a real fight. Got successful at it and suddenly his friends asked him to teach them what he does. You know like back in the SUPER old times before organized fighting styles.
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