“Thanks to my previous post on the importance of learning and continuing to practice the basics, a few people have asked why I think it is that so many martial artists are quick to neglect the basic techniques when it comes to training, so I thought I would try and answer that question here in this post.
I have also posed the same question to some of the other martial arts bloggers out there in the blogosphere and you can read some of their answers by clicking on the links at the end of this article. I think you’ll find some of them quite interesting.”
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God almighty, doens’t anyone use common sense when writing an article about why the basics are important?
You learn the basics so you have some foundation of what the advanced techniques are. The distillation of training is simplified to the most basic of ideas so the house of training can stand to weather any storm.
Everything you learn has a meaning!
Even if your teacher doesn’t know the advanced meaning or how the many ways a basic will be important for defense, offense, injuring, or immobilizing an opponent … your basics are the foundation of everything you will ever learn.
The ability to combine the basics of many different varieties of martial disciplines is the very essence of creating a new style of martial arts such as was the creation of Aikido, which, by the way, didn’t happen overnite.
Stop! Stop with all this Brainwashing of western thinking and Eastern thinking. Necessity is the mother of all invention. Understand the necessity of why something is .. and you understand why it works the way it does, simple as that.
Pardon me if I am old, crotchity, and impolite, but some of you knuckle-heads need to wake up and see the forest for the trees…. understand why we do what we do and the necessity of doing it that way so your foundations will withstand the weight of what you build on top of those basics of training your learn in each discipline.
Learn your history. Start with the naked ape of human kind scratching their itchy butt, about 75,000 years ago, and then fill in the blanks until today as best you can …. you would be surprised how much B.S. is in the writings of history as human beings create the most incredible fantasy stories to make sense of things we don’t or won’t understand in the terms of duality.
…basics can be boring. novelty is attractive. ‘the flower is preferred to the fruit…’ – Musashi
and if you don’t have solid basics, well, you’re simply back to the good ol’ who’s bigger & stronger.
good ol’ who’s bigger & stronger….What’s wrong with that?…Musashi a lot of his writings are Fiction…it not gospel even to many Japanese interpretations…and died alone in a cave…MMA proving the Japanese have NO secrets to fighting more than we do.
Bushido or Bullshido…
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