yireses Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Did you make up your own stlye?1. Why did you?2. The you teach the same thing you learn'd in your other stlye?3. What makes your stlye diffrent from the other? The knowing of Violence and living in no violence brings peace.Shaolin Chuan Fa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yireses Posted May 5, 2005 Author Share Posted May 5, 2005 Are you saing that nobody hear has made up he's own stlye? Come on The knowing of Violence and living in no violence brings peace.Shaolin Chuan Fa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangshi Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 I suppose it depends on what you mean by "your own style " . Over the years I have personally added forms , drills and specific techniques and/or applications of them that do not existist entirely within the systems that I have studied . But this only changes my personal expression of the art and does not constitute a new system . We are not so much individual beings as individual points of perception within one immense being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traditional-Fist Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 After many years of practise we will all hopefully "create" our own style. I am not saying that we will invent a new one but that after mastering a genuine style we will evolve it and make it "our own" without loosing touch with its genuine essence, techniques and principles that were put there by its original founder(s). Use your time on an art that is worthwhile and not on a dozen irrelevant "ways". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JusticeZero Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 In a way - I adjusted the body positioning in the main stancework ever so slightly to adjust to the fact that my build is very different from my teacher's, I sequence drills differently. But it's still the same art and i'm still trying to recreate in myself the ability to move like his teacher moves.As a rule, those who 'invent their own style' are duing it out of profound ego, with the exception of those who are formulating an art out of the things they know well as a solution to a specific problem. For instance, one jujutsu-ka mentioned somewhere 'created his own art' specifically as an adaptation to the inability of his intended students to use their hands on account of climate. That is a valid reason. As a rule, the many 'new arts' I see don't have any such reason, they're just developed because the creator felt themselves wiser than everyone who came before and made up some garbage so they could have their own personal art. "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." - Baleia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenStar Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 After many years of practise we will all hopefully "create" our own style. I am not saying that we will invent a new one but that after mastering a genuine style we will evolve it and make it "our own" without loosing touch with its genuine essence, techniques and principles that were put there by its original founder(s).exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Pockets Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 I agree. When you fight long enough, everyone more or less develops their own "style." Look at Chuck Liddell- what does he do? Boxing? Sure, he has some thai style strikes and what not; but really, when trying to describe something, sometimes you just call it a "Chuck Liddell." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjanurse Posted May 8, 2005 Share Posted May 8, 2005 After many years of practise we will all hopefully "create" our own style. I am not saying that we will invent a new one but that after mastering a genuine style we will evolve it and make it "our own" without loosing touch with its genuine essence, techniques and principles that were put there by its original founder(s).I second this! "A Black Belt is only the beginning."Heidi-A student of the artsTae Kwon Do,Shotokan,Ju Jitsu,Modern Arnishttp://the100info.tumblr.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudDragon Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 1. Because by creating a style I was better able to understand other styles and why they do what they do.2. Yes, it was an eclectic style, drawing from karate, jujitsu, TKD, kempo, kenpo, and military techniques.3. Nothing really, it was done in an effort to find the most efficient way to teach members of the protection career fields effective techinques that could be learned in the shortest time.I don't teach this style, but I did teach it at one time to several friends, some that actually use the techniques with positive results. It was an interesting experience for me, I learned alot about training methods and how different people learn differently. A Black Belt is just a white belt that don't know when to quit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalRage Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 In a way - I adjusted the body positioning in the main stancework ever so slightly to adjust to the fact that my build is very different from my teacher's, I sequence drills differently. But it's still the same art and i'm still trying to recreate in myself the ability to move like his teacher moves.As a rule, those who 'invent their own style' are duing it out of profound ego, with the exception of those who are formulating an art out of the things they know well as a solution to a specific problem. For instance, one jujutsu-ka mentioned somewhere 'created his own art' specifically as an adaptation to the inability of his intended students to use their hands on account of climate. That is a valid reason. As a rule, the many 'new arts' I see don't have any such reason, they're just developed because the creator felt themselves wiser than everyone who came before and made up some garbage so they could have their own personal art.Good call. I love to see those people who say they mastered like 8 different styles and mash it into one system. It just doesn't make sense... different styles have different principles and to mix them you will end up with something that will most likely confuse your students, if not yourself. I believe that having a base style and then crosstraining around to help fill in the gaps within your base (because all systems have weaknesses and all) will result in your own "style" or perhaps "interpretation" is a better word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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