Uselessness of kata in the real world!

[Akuma]

The concept of Yin/Yang is not at all exclusive to China, duality and its interactions is deeply rooted in all humanity it is at our core of existence, it’s just that most are too distracted to deeply ponder about it, even Chinese folks.

“Qi” - Also a concept to be found in many cultures outside of China, in the West it was called “Aether” and was once part of the periodic table, but was discarded since it was too abstract and unscientific,likewise in the martial arts also many Chinese can’t really explain it and those who think they can doesn’t make much sense to anything anyway..

The “以柔克刚” is also not a unique concept to China, it dwell into Yin/Yang - softness vs righty, example - in Christianity concept of meekness trump brutish, of course also here many have difficulty in applying this, chinese as well as people in other cultures .

I am sorry your answers are 100% wrong.

Yin yang is not duality.
Qi is not Aether.
柔 is not softness

You CANNOT use western philosophy to explain chinese philosophy . So do I.
I can't use chinese philosophy to explain your bible. Two different concepts.

Because you don't understand the language and culture and never read the books . You can't just blame that it was too abstract and unscientific.

You can't understand these simple term, how can you understand the meaning of kata?
Honestly, not many people (even chinese) know these knowledge. I have reviewed a lot of books and combined with my teacher's explanation, then i know some part of kata.

The teacher is very important role! You must find 明师（ teacher who can really explain to you) instead of 名师（'celebrity' teacher) .

Now you know the problem now?

 

[mograph]

If you want to learn Asian Traditional Martial Arts, please LEARN the language and culture first!
The Asian teachers are not good in English ! In addition to that, there is no suitable/such English vocabulary
to explain the terms or theory.

I agree with this.

Three words: "Lost in Translation."
And it's not just language, it's cultural paradigms.

Here's a book. It's not perfect, but it's a good start.

The Geography of Thought - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[SirKicksAlot]

I am Chinese. I learn REAL traditional chinese martial arts.

I wasn't aware that "real" chinese martial arts refer to their forms as katas. Thought that was a Japanese term?

 

[Akuma]

I wasn't aware that "real" chinese martial arts refer to their forms as katas. Thought that was a Japanese term?

kata is japanese term. In chinese term, we call 拳架 (quan jia).
I afraid viewer not familiar with the term, so i use the japanese term.

 

[BrendanF]

overly-reductive garbage.

Obviously 'learn the language and culture'.

Obviously transliteration is imprecise. And?

 

[Same Trick]

I am sorry your answers are 100% wrong.

Yin yang is not duality.
Qi is not Aether.
柔 is not softness

You CANNOT use western philosophy to explain chinese philosophy . So do I.
I can't use chinese philosophy to explain your bible. Two different concepts.

Because you don't understand the language and culture and never read the books . You can't just blame that it was too abstract and unscientific.

You can't understand these simple term, how can you understand the meaning of kata?
Honestly, not many people (even chinese) know these knowledge. I have reviewed a lot of books and combined with my teacher's explanation, then i know some part of kata.

The teacher is very important role! You must find 明师（ teacher who can really explain to you) instead of 名师（'celebrity' teacher) .

Now you know the problem now?

Ha ! I’m former two times national kata champion out of five times being finalist, at one long point I was a complete Kata-dude,
You know nothing about Kata compared to me and my expertise of it, I’m right and you are wrong, so goes the song.

Merry Christmas from the Santa of Kata

 

[BrendanF]

kata is japanese term. In chinese term, we call 拳架 (quan jia).
I afraid viewer not familiar with the term, so i use the japanese term.

I'm sorry your answer is 100% wrong.

In Chinese it's 套路

 

[SirKicksAlot]

so i use the japanese term

Is this not the cultural appropriation you were complaining about earlier?

 

[Akuma]

Ha ! I’m former two times national kata champion out of five times being finalist, at one long point I was a complete Kata-dude,
You know nothing about Kata compared to me and my expertise of it, I’m right and you are wrong, so goes the song.

Merry Christmas from the Santa of Kata

Two times kata champion? Thats mean ‘gymnastics’ style kata?
Yours is just a kind of dance. If you like to perform in front of people and get Honor/ Fame. It suits you.
It is different than traditional kata.

 

[Akuma]

I'm sorry your answer is 100% wrong.

In Chinese it's 套路

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA...........My stomach Pain

套路可以是拳架组合，但拳架不一定演成套路.
套路是打拳不练功，拳架是练武又练功

Do you really understand? Mr white?

 

[Akuma]

I am overly-reductive garbage.

Obviously 'learn the language and culture'.

Obviously transliteration is imprecise. And?

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[BrendanF]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA...........My stomach Pain

套路可以是拳架组合，但拳架不一定演成套路.
套路是打拳不练功，拳架是练武又练功

Do you really understand? Mr white?

Oh I understand your meaning perfectly. You clearly don't understand mine.

Who exactly do you think you are talking to here?

How old are you?

Racist idiots invariably resort to racism when they feel threatened or insecure.

There is an old saying:

"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"