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Originally Posted by Eric Daniel Are the Modern martial arts any more effective or better than traditional arts? What is your opinion?
There are NO modern martial arts, they are mouse traps.
I have heard many times that modern martial arts are better than traditional martial arts for living in todays violent world. However, I disagree with this because ancient Martial arts like karate and jujutsu were made for combat on the battlefield. I have heard many times that non-traditional martial arts are better than traditional martial arts for living in todays violent world. I do not really agree with this statement because traditional arts like karate were made for combat many years ago and I have read that most non-traditional arts have some kind of traditional martial art background. Does any one agree/disagree with either of these statements?
I don't think one martial art is better than another one either. I have a question that I have had trouble with for a couple weeks since I posted this topic:
How is a modern martial art determind and a traditional martial art determind, and how are they different? Are they different?
What are your opinions??
Sincerely, Eric Daniel |
My take on it is that a traditional martial art is un-modified fromit's original form. i.e Shotokan Karate, Japanese Ju Jitsu, Shaolin Kung Fu. A modern Martial art is one that has been forward developed from it's orginal form. BJJ, JKD. However, I guess by using this defanition you could say that Akido and Judo are therefore modern martial arts which most of us would probably consider traditional ones.....hmmm!
I think the modern martial arts are more applicable for today becasue we no longer wear Samuri armour or farm with rice flails etc. Therefore, the techniques developed in the "so called" modern martial arts have in mind that we ware jeans and t shirts, do not carry swords and most of us don't farm any longer. And I guess there is the issue that it is not acceptable to break someones neck in most cases, any longer!!
That is not to say that the traditional martial arts are useless or do not have techniques that will work in toadys world. It's just that the more modern ones have techniques that were born or developed of this time.
Lastley, I would not agree with the comment that we live in a more violent world toady. I think it is just a different kind of violance.
Just my thoughts