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What is a complete martial art?-gctid27112

Started by Heru Djet, Feb 21, 2007, 07:48 PM

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Feb 21, 2007, 07:48 PM
What is a complete martial art? Does your martial arts training cover all of the areas that you consider essential for real-world effectiveness? Why or why not?

*kwk (katha wa katha) can be translated as and so on.
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
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Feb 21, 2007, 08:13 PM #1
Wei yE asEntitire pa! This is a good topic! Me deE, medii aguma da, nanso, afei deE mentaa nyE. I've done grappling before, but these days I don't do much. Meda wo ase sE woakae me sE, berE biara EsE sE medwene Okoban a Edi mu yie. I thank you for reminding me that it's necessary for me to think all the time about a fighting style that is complete.

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Feb 21, 2007, 09:02 PM #2
Asante Ndugu Obadele. Yebo, I think that our engagement with the martial arts, like our engagement with anything in life should be a "self-conscious" engagement. Meaning we should critically approach our training and constantly ask ourselves if our training is sufficient to confront the challenges that we may encounter.
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
-sbAt Rkhty Amen
Feb 27, 2007, 03:21 PM #3
Even though I don't know anything about martial arts, I'm always wanting to know more about it,especially if its from Kmt!
"Kmt for the Kmtyws at Home and Abroad!"-Marcus Garvey :Kmt:
Feb 27, 2007, 03:24 PM #4
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"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
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Mar 17, 2007, 05:48 PM #5
One of the dimensions of this discussion that I think is worth probing are how specific Kmtyw martial arts can be employed in any of the above mentioned scenarios (see the poll). For instance, how would the Capoeira function in this context? Or Ijala? Or Dambe? Kwk.
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
-sbAt Rkhty Amen
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