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pcarney · 10-19-2002, 12:06 PM

There's alot of talk in the forums about what martial arts are effective, what are not, etc. I was wondering if anyone thinks there are valid reasons to study martial arts other then to learn how to fight. That is, would you ever take a martial art simply for the 'art' sake and nothing else. Some of the Japanese arts come to mind, like iaido, which is simply the art of drawing a sword. If a art defines itself as simply an art, with no direct reference to defending yourself, is that 'ok'? I say this as opposed to some martial arts that poise as fight worthy, but are painfully not.

And if you wouldn't take a martial art that wouldn't teach you how to fight, how do you view martial artists that do?

10-19-2002, 12:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
pcarney Novice Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rhode Island, USA Posts: 56 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Reasons to learn There's alot of talk in the forums about what martial arts are effective, what are not, etc. I was wondering if anyone thinks there are valid reasons to study martial arts other then to learn how to fight. That is, would you ever take a martial art simply for the 'art' sake and nothing else. Some of the Japanese arts come to mind, like iaido, which is simply the art of drawing a sword. If a art defines itself as simply an art, with no direct reference to defending yourself, is that 'ok'? I say this as opposed to some martial arts that poise as fight worthy, but are painfully not. And if you wouldn't take a martial art that wouldn't teach you how to fight, how do you view martial artists that do? __________________ 100,000 lemmings can't be wrong.