| Thanks for the interesting comments.
Through my training I have found that martial arts can be both a help and a hinderence.
They help as they (generally) inprove reaction time, equip you with a greater veriety of skills which should be more deadly/cause more damage than what you naturally have. It should also add to your speed and power from the repetative training.
Bad points are generally martial arts spend their time focusing on Forms and routines instead of real world application and the drilling of these techniques. Also they tend to preach peace and avoidance of violence to appeal to parents and to give a good impression.
What I have been finding out is that in a fight one of the most important factors is your mind set. It is important to be able to go all out when you need to. Many martail artists (me too many years ago) think it's like the movies and get their arse whipped by an avarage Joe. This I believe comes down to the prementioned mind set.
"the martial artists will be left trying to figure out what the attacker will do in which case putting him at a disadvantage having to watch and wait for the attacks to come. While the attacker is going for attacking and violent action. "
If your mindset is on defence, which is what is normally taught in Martial arts schools (to the general public) I think that you would end up at a disadvantage, with the possible factors of, Fear of getting hit, or hurt. Anticipating the attackers moves, and the unrealistic idea of what I fight is gained through the ever popular point sparring.
If your mindset is on attack, maybe you will get hit, but it will not make you loose your concentraition your determination to finish the attacker you will not be waiting or antisipating his moves but forcing him, dictating to him how to respond to you thus putting you at an advantage.
Well these are my thorst at the moment. Anyone agree, disagree???
Wing Nut |