Timeline for What Defines Something As A Martial Art?
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| Dec 21, 2015 at 9:45 | comment | added | mitro | @roland tepp - I agree it is not funny. | |
| Dec 20, 2015 at 22:04 | comment | added | Roland Tepp | @mitro you obviously have no idea what taijiquan is about. "Slow motion punch" would be funny if that wasn't the way many people view their taiji practice. Watered down and partial practice has hurt so many TMA styles these days it's not funny anymore | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 5:30 | comment | added | mitro | @roland tepp- I think that we all agree on the original Intent of Martial arts, but I have never seen somebody s nose broken because of a slow motion punch. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 19:39 | comment | added | Roland Tepp | @mitro - modern taijiquan has plenty of violence encoded into its solo forms and paired exercises. Whether or not some (or perhaps even most) practitioners ignore it, does not make the original intent of martial arts forms, taijiquan included, less violent. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | user5590 | I appreciate you laugh, but actually the first paragraph of my answer fits you. As you're from Japan, you are supposed to know that even your odori has lot of movements that are directly referring to how samourais manipulate the sword. Same thing (already mentioned in the 3rd paragraph) for Tai-Chi pointed by Mitro. @TonyD | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 19:22 | history | undeleted | user5590 | ||
| Dec 14, 2015 at 9:47 | history | deleted | user5590 | via Vote | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 9:29 | comment | added | Sardathrion - against SE abuse | This is a rant that does not answer the question. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 16:30 | comment | added | mitro | What kind of violence does 'modern' tai chi have in it? | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 10:02 | comment | added | Tony D | To say "we're brained washed to believe in martial arts from the perspective of... self-defense", and that they're really about the performance of violence, is laughably wrong. Many martial arts have techniques specifically for controlling an opponent without hurting them, and many more have philosophies they take seriously about minimising violence by e.g. defending so well the attacker realises they're out-classed, or showing the ability to injure without actually doing so as a form of deterrent. Some aikido styles focus exclusively on control, teaching no techniques to initiate attacks. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 21:52 | comment | added | mitro | Just out of curriousity, where did you read that Bruce Lee developed Jet Kune Do for helping American citizens deal with urban violence? | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 19:27 | history | answered | user5590 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |