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How "old" is your art?


How old is your martial art?  

13 members have voted

  1. 1. How old is your martial art?

    • New to 10 years old.
      0
    • 11-25 years old.
      2
    • 25 - 50 years old.
      4
    • 50 - 100 years old.
      5
    • 100 - 500 years old
      1
    • Heck, Christ was a teenager when my art started!
      1


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Over the years.....usually...EVERYTHING changes slightly from the original.

~Master Jules......aka "The Sandman"


"I may be a trained killer......but Im really a nice guy"

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How old is my art? Well I have been butchering shotokan karate for the past two years? So two years it is!

 

How long has my instructor's club been running?

 

How old is Shotokan karate?

 

How old is karate?

 

How old is weaponless fighting?

 

Ever since one cave man looked at another caveman and thought, "Hey, that b**ger's looking at me funny!" So since the day we climbled out of the primordial soup it is.

 

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I worked out last night. I learned a whole new application for our basic blocking system that I did not know even existed. How old is that?

 

Seriously, doesn't every "style" go through an evolution of sort every time it is passed down? Heck, you could say that some instructors are "seeing" and "discovering" things every day making it a new system to themselves and to their students. At least that's my take.

 

The whole idea of something being passed down from 2000 years without evolution is silly. You will see minor changes from grandmaster to grandmaster and instructor to instructor in the same "system". But at the end of the day is there anything that is truely original or are we just reorganizing the finite number of techniques and philosophies into new ways?

 

BTW, my system can be traced back to the 40s but the gurus will tell you that it has ancient roots. You know, they are right and they are wrong at the same time. Chew on that.

I had to lose my mind to come to my senses.

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