Survey Martial Arts

My Sifu, Alan Orr often starts his class with the question: "Do you have any questions?"

One problem with martial arts training can often be unwilling to question really is an easy habit to get something alone and broke, students from the best, so often begin to ask the question, because if you want the group below? One of the best students, school teachers and / or combatants within their system.

It is a constantQuestioning what you're doing what it is that you will be taught, why do it? What happens in this situation and perhaps more importantly, "Is what I'm doing this?" This will lead to find solutions. It may be that these issues take away, where there are training to seek new information, perhaps even new teachers. I trained under many teachers, some good, some not. Sometimes you see years later, everything you have learned from youhad to find another, but this article is to shorten this period and to help guide you on your way to you.

Why am I doing this?

I think this is a problem I ask you, and should be a secondary question, what should I do to achieve my goals?

My belief is that if you want, then a martial art, you must want to learn, the ability to effectively defend against an average opponent, perhaps with a Strength or size, may be able to really fight against a skilled and determined adversary or adversaries. The self confidence of martial arts in my eyes is the knowledge that you can really do things under pressure. If you are just a social club and a little 'fitness in the sale then fair enough, maybe thrown this article contains no relevance to humans, and I know that is quite a contingent of people to go out there, that their respective> Martial Arts Club to say that a martial art, but really have no intention of ever using the situation seriously. This article is for those who really want a good level of skill and ability to reach through real pressure.

Who trains in a martial arts club is ....... recognize this scenario

They know nothing or very little about martial arts, but are eager to learn, you seeBruce Lee flicks, UFC, Jet Li, you are like children, are in a training room with another fifteen most of whom seem to know what they are doing. A teacher starts the class and everything feels foreign. You learn something moves, the instructor explains and shows them prepared with the help of an elder, and all look good. This is probably most people have stopped to think ....

The usual practice in many areas of life, to be in ordersuccessful you need clear and precise objectives. This martial art is very true. But so few people control over their way, rather they stopped the man at the front with a black belt or leave the nice clothes for them chose there. If the type is not with the black belt of the highest caliber, probably do not know where you want to be preserved. However, if your head when you did your research and you can always learn to recognize sharedWhat can be taken by an instructor and also to leave, sometimes leaving if! A teacher needs to maintain the integrity and humility, just his students at a high level and that is the ability to be transparent to its students in terms of strengths and weaknesses. I admire any teacher that takes you to other teachers to fill its own gaps and will be happy to take his students to study better with other skills that may not have themselves.The best teachers are not afraid of honesty.

So blindly follow someone on the assumption that because he or she has something a lot of time, then did well because they are called "Master" or "Master" or "Sifu", or simply because they themselves in the role of instructor is certainly Put unwise. Common sense, please read Taking note of real situations to see all their stories are not even ignore.

Enjoy your experience!

Mywas the first martial art Tae Kwon Do, the martial arts very fashionable then. In a sense, I was lucky because I finished the field in a club where both teacher was honest and even ex-military and, unlike TKD had spent many in boxes for some time and was quite progressive in his training. However, after two years I had to started reading Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do books, in practice, and started many of the techniques and conceptsare indicated. Bruce Lee The investigation led me to a local boxing club and voila .... Some of the boys go, I really could not suddenly much in sparring with much less effort. The day I went on a defense black belt and landed several unanswered shots on the day was, I decided to TKD had lost its charm. I had my fifth or sixth at the time, no black belt. I did not want one if they could wipe out 8 weeks, the hole advantage of years of experience of my opponent.

Beready to go!

E 'was about the same time, I decided to find a school of Wing Chun. How many people I decided to learn this martial art, because due to the thought of Bruce Lee. One of the most acute and truly revolutionary spirit of the martial arts world had ever produced many of his belief system based on its first and that was good enough for me. Unfortunately, finding a teacher to play was another matter. I was in a class almost exactlyI except in the above scenario outlined by the fact I had some combat experience and also had boxes on and off.

A year later, my feelings toward this school have changed. Most students could not manage my sparring skills, unable to handle the speed or power, could do with my ability to kick. I stayed another year, though mainly because I met a man very similar people, it was my sparring partner and friend. We used the class together and trainoften experienced with our ideas. Dave emigrated (returning years later to help with my development) and that got me was that school. lost the temptation for the next class, the next "level" only his charm and again the idea of hunting for the black belt and held it was not for me to stay there.

This particular school is a great example of a place where the coach had lost all his humility, and although a nice guy who believe in our abilities, wasneither qualified nor very honest. He rarely Chi Sao and certainly never spar with his students, training was very strongly discouraged outside. Everything was in the house. There was never a confrontation with the outside world and students can blindly follow their "master" to achieve for many years, notes no sense in a system that has never been tested.

This year, forget the time ......

In year two things happened in 1993 that shook the world of martial arts. The UltimateWorld Fighting Championships was just formed, what it takes to win the fight, but most of the martial arts world were innocently caught me by HIM in His early days (although I certainly Mixed Martial Arts, things changed later) and some number of books by a gentleman named Geoff Thompson, a nightclub doorman in Coventry. I do not remember if 93 or 94 there, when I read "Watch My Back," was purchased and then "Real Self Defence" and"The Pavement Arena.

Real self defense in my opinion is still one of the best books ever written about him and the street "Pavement Arena" will be sent to the United Kingdom for every "traditional" Martial Arts Club, and also because its honest and open discussion on art , what it takes for the reality of war for an effective yet very relevant. The information contained in these two books certainly reinforced some views which I gave and gave me buoyancyExplore other aspects of my training. I realized the truth of what man has said and acted on it. I find it amazing how so many World Martial arts should be able to ignore all the information available when you want to 5 of their black belt, worth more quid you paid for it then not be one of them.

"You too can learn the ways of force"

I gave up a court martial and had adopted a different samplemany others including traditional Ju Jitsu, Freestyle Karate and Kickboxing. Whenever I get sick of Wing Chun, I returned to the boxing gym, often the two in tandem. My heart was with the style of kung-fu, but often the head with the honest sweat of the gym. Looking back, I often thought that I stress in my boxes, which over the years I have had my Wing Chun then I would be a better fighter now, but when I turned out not now think that this is not true, because I finallyleave the door of the temple a warrior Monaco with the secret Shaolin kung-fu skills revealed only to me, after years of training, nor do I have before Darth Vader again, to finally be a true Jedi.

Like many others, I continued to believe that if I turn a bit 'better in Wing Chun had fallen all right and I would like untouchables like "Bruce Lee would be on display in his films. I think the martial artists fall into this trap many . The truth was, I knew that my training Wing Chunsomething was missing, I could see the potential, I knew there was something special, something I had not seen anywhere else, but could not understand what it was.

So I followed my Wing Chun teacher, and now add to my training in new areas of mixed martial arts. I met some Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (martial art with real depth, love became a second), wrestling The fact takedowns and takedown defense. My new training andSparring partner often ridicules my Wing Chun with "prove it, get an education in the ring, do it!" To be fair, they must give my hands a certain respect, but often that my boxes were raised and encouraged me to use my time and not play the game "Wing Chun.

Let me finish this little story with a happy ending, but bare with me for the moment and I will be the main points of what happens in this article was to return.

If you learn something new to lose the worst is coming, and manyPeople spend many years in the martial arts in developing something that just is not really relevant in the belief that they are better then they will only ever see something, learn the ways of the force? It will be something to click?

There is also a total and complete lie