Style OR Doctrine?!

[Alan Armstrong]

The World has opened up. Martial art knowledge is open to everyone nowadays.

This was not so in the past. Secret ways of doing martial arts could save one's life and preserve one's way of life.

Look at the 'Long bow' it was a secret weapon at one time because it could pierce armor.

Same with the Samurai sword, that could cut through almost anything.

The stirrup for the French horsemen.

In our day stealth technology and spy satellites...

Style and doctrine were more valuable than gold in the past, they were survival tools. They protected emperors and kings; villages and countries.

Today we have more efficient ways of killing each other. That doesn't need a person to practice riding a horse standing up and to fire an arrow with a bow in to another moving target.

Now days we do martial arts mostly as a hobby or a pass time. Our survival is not dependant on learning martial art skills anymore.