@People trying to fix their "troubled" martial art, or make it work! (WITH AMAZING PICTURE INSIDE!)

Time for yet another controversial thread from me!

A picture is worth a thousand words!

(I made it myself, i know. It is amazing. Thank you.)

 

Just throwing this out there after seeing 3-4 threads this week discussing problems from certain martial arts (recurring aikido threads, some krav maga discussions few days ago, and now wing chun):

YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON DEVELOPING YOUR OWN MARTIAL ABILITY AND BETTERING YOURSELF!

 

Martial arts are just the tools for this. Stop wasting time trying to fix a broken hammer so you can hammer in the nail when there are many other working hammers laying around you.

Use the broken fucker as a weight for holding something so it can be useful, don't try hammering in nails with it when it has no handle.

 

Just take what you can from that troubled martial art, make it a small part of you. Instead trying to base your whole identity as a practitioner of a single martial art first and foremost, make "being a martial artist" your identity.

 

If you looked at my picture, who do you think can for example... make greater use of aikido locks in a real situation? Me to the left (after punching and throwing someone down and then using the lock), an aikidoka spending time trying to fix his martial art with little supplements in the center, or the complete idiot to the right of the picture?

 

I got nothing against people trying to make something work, especially something they love, the idea is very admirable. Don't think i'm bashing anyone, quite the opposite. I'm just trying to make people think outside the box (their martial art they love), kinda zoom out... and realize that identity shit doesn't matter. At the end of the day what matters is you can defend yourself, stay healthy and develop your body. You are not going to accomplish that in a mcDojo or in a bad martial art that wastes your time doing easy forms in empty or exercises based on pure pseudoscience or teaching you techniques that you can't apply and serve only to "help you in something else" or "teach you an aspect of <insert random bullshit>" (god i hate that reasoning).

 

Just have a loooong session thinking about this if you ever caught yourself trying to defend your martial art. (hint: you wouldn't have to defend anything if it was great)

 

IF YOU ANSWER ME IN A PAINT DRAWING I OWE YOU AN UPVOTE!

Submitted July 25, 2018 at 07:13PM by Katsuhayabi https://ift.tt/2LP8WVJ