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Originally posted by pcarney
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?
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There are many valid reasons to study martail arts one can learn more self understanding stronger coping skills increased flexibilty conditioning better reaction time stress relief anger control the art of fighting is apart of the training but not the whole course of time one should learn to fight not to have to fight but a self test of skills exposes the weakness that need improvement so you may say self expression can be discoverd also many people have never fought outside of training or compition the origin lies in being able to defend ones self not prove ones self at best you can know your self better the more you discover the person sats there own needs thru training a good fighter should be a good person this is martail training also take what I say with a grain of salt and form your opinion