Kem/npo:
I would say communicate with each other in a civil manner.
I would say communicate with each other in a civil manner.
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For a few reasons.
One is, if you get attacked on the job and you get in to fisticuffs with your your attacker, both of you will likely get fired for fighting. Sad, but true. If you fight on the job, you are seen as a violent person. HR departments don't want violent people on staff and think that getting rid of violent people protects the rest of the non-violent people.
Another is, being a martial artist typically doesn't get anyone brownie points with the police. If two people are fighting, they will be arrested and charged with fighting-related crimes. Who started it? Each will say the other guy, I'm sure. For someone to clame self-defense, the person has to act in a way that the law recognizes as defensive.
Third is, if you hurt someone and there is no crime committed, you risk a civil suit. One of the requirements for a successful suit is the person to prove to the court that they were damaged. If the person was made to comply without injury, they will have a tough time making the claim that they were damaged.
exile said:These are good and important points. But the question isĀbased on Andrew's original postĀto just what extent is it a weakness of a MA if it doesn't give you a means of, for example, painlessly restraining a violent assailant (which you might want to do for the various reasons you cite)?
Because as my instructor says, Martial Arts aren't about fighting, they are about health. The reason why we fight and train to fight is because either we care about our own health or about someone else's health...and it is why we can legally do so as well. Fighting and not caring about someone's health (including your own) isn't defense, it's battery. Or murder.
Fired from a job...criminal conviction...legal liability...those aren't good for one's health.
If doing martial arts leads to something that ends up impeding one's health, then it is a weakness of the art.
With my Art it is perspeption that it is all sport nobody really understand TKD anymore except us older guy. It is a shame that it has become that. The other thing is the use of hands, they have all but letf the hands out.
However the older guy's still no how to use them. Right Terry!
I didn't really see it as self-congratulatory, Cuong Nhuka. You are saying these are the disadvantages of the system. That's reading to me as if you would rather have a wider base of fellow students to network with and perhaps you wish that the tests weren't so brutal to get you to the same place as many of your counterparts in other arts. Hope I'm not putting words in your mouth.
The topic is "what is the weakness," rank isn't a weakness it is a unrelatable measure of skill. Do you really think your art addresses everything equally well?
Now if you had said "my art focuses on so many things, we are jack-of-all-trades, master of none" maybe you could consider that a weakness. But that isn't what you said.
Lamont
Actually, I believe the OP was looking for specific things in the technique area.
Mike
Technique area? Well that would be the whole jack of all trades things from my last post. Good, or would you like something else?
Time for some honesty, what is it that your art just doesn't do very well? And yes, there is something, probably a few things.
There is far too much "Mine is the best for everything" attitude in the martial arts, probably partially responsible for some of the style vs style nonsense. IMO part of knowing what you do well, is part of knowing what you do poorly. So lets be honest, what system do you do, and what does it suck at?
Anyone that says "Nothing" gets 10 lashes for lieing
Cons:
Time: Your looking at 6 years to get a black belt
Availabity: Low outside of Florida. Lower out side U.S. (one in Germany, France, and Venezuala respectivily)
Process: At times annonying
Tests: Hard as heck (it's meant to be that way)
I study Taekwondo, and I am but a lowly student so I will try to address the one main weak spot.
Ok, now for the rest of my answer - - get ready to give me lashes if you think you can catch me! :ultracool
In my experience, this has already existed in many schools under various names. Taekwondo is one of them, but not the modern sport aspect (Taekwondo itself has not become a sport), nor in the family/fun/fitness health club "McDojangs." I'm talking about old school Taekwondo that was intended to re-organize, and gather together all of Korean Martial knowledge. Hand strikes, kicking, joint locks, pressure points, throws, take-downs, chokes, bone breaks, holds, grappling, reversals, escapes, weapons (all kinds as the art is designed to adapt and grow with the times), single attackers, multiple attackers in a variety of environments, weather conditions, etc.
The biggest weakness that I see among Taekwondo schools is that many of them just don't practice all of those things. Because so many in recent times were focused on the kicks, sparring, board breaking, tournaments, etc., they neglected to train in skillful throwing, how to fall properly, and what to do on the ground (save a few rapid strikes to escape). The typical strategy of Taekwondo is to damage and get away - not giving the grappler any opportunity to throw or choke or hold. It might very well work in most cases, so I would say that Taekwondo as a whole is not weak as an art of self defense.
Where many schools and instructors tend to be weak in specific techniques is not knowing how to do proper throws (foot sweeps, leg reaps, hip throws, flips, etc), nor how to grapple well against a good grappler. I don't believe a Taekwondoist needs to be as good as, or better than a Judo player when it comes to throwing, but you had better study the concept thoroughly in order to know how to avoid a throw, which can end a fight quickly. You don't have to be the best on the ground to know how to escape from virtually any hold, but most Taekwondo students don't get enough work there. Not their fault. Not the fault of Taekwondo. It is the instructor who neglects to realize this is missing and go get it. Not "cross-train" - - not "mix your martial art." Go to Taekwondo Masters who have retained this portion of Korean Martial Art in their Taekwondo curriculum.
Alright - lash away! :whip: Hey! I'm over here >>> :lol: hee-hee-hee
CM D.J. Eisenhart
So basically, I read this as everything is perfect in the system as far as techniques go. The things that lack are the time frame to black belt?