wado_lee Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 most people would say there style and clu instills the spirit and esscence or they probly wouldnt train there theres no one style just your style--------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenStar Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 everyone loves to think that... That's the thing. How do these people know? from point sparring? from not competing at all? They won't know what their fighting spirit is like until they fight... IMO, that's a bad time to find out. Also, there's more to it than spirit - that spirit, or "killer instinct" is present in many people by nature. Training in MA can actually be counter productive to it, because you are taught to pull punches, you light contact spar, etc. The guy that is trying to kill you on the street doesn't have such training. All he's thinking is that he wants to kill you. Like I said, when fighting that guy that wants to kill you, if you don't know what your spirit is like before the fight, then it may already be too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenStar Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 and to be more precise, having that instinct instilled is NOT the reason most people train. They train because the want to get in shape, but not by doing something mundane, like going to the gym. They train because they want to learn quick, easy self defense (a delusion that many schools feed into), they train because of what they see in movies, etc. If people only wanted to train so that they could become fierce fighters and have an awesome killer instinct, there wouldn't be so many McDojos and crappy schools aroung today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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