Idiots calling martial arts “styles” pisses me off.
2009.11.12 (Thu)
Earlier I heard some guy who went to a Taekwondo school talk about Taekwondo practitioners beating Muay Thai practitioners and then close up with "It's not the style, it's the guy behind it." I would have kicked him in the face, if I could see where his face was. The god of this land has given me the fortune of not having to see stupid people's faces.
A style is not a set of techniques. Otherwise a low belt rank in Karate would be considered a different style than a higher one. We all know this is not the case. You could opt to call them different arts, but even then, these arts aren’t exactly mutually exclusive.
You could make an argument of different martial arts having different ways of doing things, such as snapping a kick instead of swinging it, but all in all the same thing is accomplished, and either one can be done by any person. If I, someone who has learned a set of movements, used something from somebody else’s set of movements, would my “style” suddenly be theirs? No. Did I use a technique from their “style”? You could say so, but you’d also be a dipshit. Ways of doing things do not belong to specific people or organizations. In the end, we all have the same sort of body, some with better bodies than others. Because we all have the same sort, we all have the same ways of moving. A martial art is made by picking out movements that are favorable, then compiling them. Then somebody may choose to name their set of movements, just as people name their writings or drawings. Others can then choose to learn from it. If there was a painting made by certain techniques, and somebody picked up on them and painted their own picture using techniques they learned from the painting, is it the same painting? It is not.
A style would be better used to describe the way a person carries himself using said techniques. An example is if somebody favored using a movement to strike at openings in the opponent and hope to hit them, and consistently did that in order to achieve a favorable result, versus somebody who would use the same movement not to strike, but to trap the movement of the opponent to gain a clear advantage in position. Yes, it is possible to do this from one movement you idiots thinking “what no that would be a different technique”. One movement can very easily achieve different results. If you are currently thinking “yeah they might be the same movement but it’s a different technique if you use it as something else” you are probably retarded. You just have to think for yourself instead of waiting for your GREAT AND WISE MASTER (read: bastard suckering you into paying him so you can learn how to move around by yourself, unless he actively gives you his own philosophies and observations and lets you understand it, instead of just dropping you shit and going “YOU WILL UNDERSTAND IT IN TIME” then he might be kind of cool, but then you wouldn’t be waiting for him to give you shit to use, probably.) to give you something to use for each specific spot. Yes, I am also saying that people who only learn one martial art and then violently refuse to pick up anything else, instead of finding any useful variety of movement and using it are retarded and unnecessarily elitist shit-pricks.
Anyway, if you use this definition, you could easily read "It's not the style, it's the guy behind it" as "It's not flailing around like a retard and hoping something hits that matters, it's the body of the asswad flailing around like a retard that does".
- Vita Khorijin
A style is not a set of techniques. Otherwise a low belt rank in Karate would be considered a different style than a higher one. We all know this is not the case. You could opt to call them different arts, but even then, these arts aren’t exactly mutually exclusive.
You could make an argument of different martial arts having different ways of doing things, such as snapping a kick instead of swinging it, but all in all the same thing is accomplished, and either one can be done by any person. If I, someone who has learned a set of movements, used something from somebody else’s set of movements, would my “style” suddenly be theirs? No. Did I use a technique from their “style”? You could say so, but you’d also be a dipshit. Ways of doing things do not belong to specific people or organizations. In the end, we all have the same sort of body, some with better bodies than others. Because we all have the same sort, we all have the same ways of moving. A martial art is made by picking out movements that are favorable, then compiling them. Then somebody may choose to name their set of movements, just as people name their writings or drawings. Others can then choose to learn from it. If there was a painting made by certain techniques, and somebody picked up on them and painted their own picture using techniques they learned from the painting, is it the same painting? It is not.
A style would be better used to describe the way a person carries himself using said techniques. An example is if somebody favored using a movement to strike at openings in the opponent and hope to hit them, and consistently did that in order to achieve a favorable result, versus somebody who would use the same movement not to strike, but to trap the movement of the opponent to gain a clear advantage in position. Yes, it is possible to do this from one movement you idiots thinking “what no that would be a different technique”. One movement can very easily achieve different results. If you are currently thinking “yeah they might be the same movement but it’s a different technique if you use it as something else” you are probably retarded. You just have to think for yourself instead of waiting for your GREAT AND WISE MASTER (read: bastard suckering you into paying him so you can learn how to move around by yourself, unless he actively gives you his own philosophies and observations and lets you understand it, instead of just dropping you shit and going “YOU WILL UNDERSTAND IT IN TIME” then he might be kind of cool, but then you wouldn’t be waiting for him to give you shit to use, probably.) to give you something to use for each specific spot. Yes, I am also saying that people who only learn one martial art and then violently refuse to pick up anything else, instead of finding any useful variety of movement and using it are retarded and unnecessarily elitist shit-pricks.
Anyway, if you use this definition, you could easily read "It's not the style, it's the guy behind it" as "It's not flailing around like a retard and hoping something hits that matters, it's the body of the asswad flailing around like a retard that does".
I hope you enjoyed reading,
- Vita Khorijin
A steep climb
2009.10.28 (Wed)
Greatness is a great mountain.
Masses gather at the the foot, and look to the endlessly high top with awe.
A brave few begin to climb the path, and the masses will look up scorn.
The reason is that it shows them humans just like themselves can climb it. It is a reminder that others are after that which they have given up. It is a matter of pride. They think highly of themselves; They think, "If I could not climb, why do you think you can? What makes you so much better than me?". They cannot stand the prospect of just another person being greater than they. That humans are not weak, only they.
As one continues to climb, the scorn may no longer reach.
The air becomes thin, one begins to breathe the thickening envy and expectation.
Burning determination boils the blood. The hot blood moves the body through the anguish.
Even higher, the path becomes thin, one begins walking upon the thick of competition. One clears their path by shoving others over.
Stain the flesh with blood and sweat. Continue on, and even the strongest can no longer reach to pull one down.
Continue further. Envy becomes awe, competition becomes respect, and blood and sweat become trophies. One's position becomes the dreams and will of the next batch of brave few. One becomes legend.
Recently I have seen that even legends may be overtaken. Perhaps you could only call it a god.
Time will tell; may even gods be taken down?
Masses gather at the the foot, and look to the endlessly high top with awe.
A brave few begin to climb the path, and the masses will look up scorn.
The reason is that it shows them humans just like themselves can climb it. It is a reminder that others are after that which they have given up. It is a matter of pride. They think highly of themselves; They think, "If I could not climb, why do you think you can? What makes you so much better than me?". They cannot stand the prospect of just another person being greater than they. That humans are not weak, only they.
As one continues to climb, the scorn may no longer reach.
The air becomes thin, one begins to breathe the thickening envy and expectation.
Burning determination boils the blood. The hot blood moves the body through the anguish.
Even higher, the path becomes thin, one begins walking upon the thick of competition. One clears their path by shoving others over.
Stain the flesh with blood and sweat. Continue on, and even the strongest can no longer reach to pull one down.
Continue further. Envy becomes awe, competition becomes respect, and blood and sweat become trophies. One's position becomes the dreams and will of the next batch of brave few. One becomes legend.
Recently I have seen that even legends may be overtaken. Perhaps you could only call it a god.
Time will tell; may even gods be taken down?
- Vita Khorijin
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