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FMA Informative Newspaper Vol2 No.3 Vol 2 No 3 - 2013 Newspaper Propagating the Filipino Martial Arts and the Culture of the Philippines Chaos The Mean and Nasty Old Master By Bram Frank Article By Mustafa “Thekuntawman” Gatdula you. He will be an absolute authoritarian in Speaking Strictly for the class room. He will not give you breaks Myself Regarding This will be really quick. I am sure I’ve when you feel like you will pass out. He will Modern Arnis posted on this subject several times before, but tell you to shut up and train when you ask By Jerome Barber I felt compelled to write on it one more time. to learn those cool weapons on the wall. He Article Experience has told me that when I will make you train the same techniques until Dances with Sticks meet a rude, nasty old man who appears you hurt, train till you get bored, train till you By AJ Ruiz to not want new students–I should per- get mad and quit. Because the kind of train- Article haps tolerate his barbs and earn the right ing one will need to totally submit to in the to learn from him. Some of you martial arts- effort to attain the level of skill that satisfies consumers probably couldn’t fathom what him enough to promote you will suck. It will About ... I mean. I will attempt to convey pronto. be less attractive than anything money can Future Events Much of the martial arts that is easily buy. It will be harder to obtain and moment Past Events found for anyone with a few bucks–whether you will be allowed to say that you “know” Tid-Bits by seminar, video, youtube clip, or dojo–is it is a vague, mysterious point in the future decent, good material. However, most of it is that seems to move further and further away not taught correctly and that fact alone ren- each time you think you’re getting closer. ders the validity of the art and techniques ir- And most people who pursue the mar- relevant. I could know how to throw the most tial arts is not wired for this kind of commit- vicious and powerful hook; one that Mike ment. This is why some martial arts students Tyson himself would feel all warm and fuzzy still have their first set of sparring gear to about if he saw me hit someone with it. Yet, if I show friends, and why others (very few oth- don’t properly train you on how to actually DO ers, I might add) can’t even remember what that technique correctly–if I don’t pass on to happened to their first set of sparring gear you the full understanding of how to counter because they’ve owned about 50 sets in their with it, how to counter the counters your op- lifetime. I would say that the percentage of ponent will throw, how to force the technique martial arts students who really want the real, through if the opponent closes his openings, serious stuff is about a fraction of 1% of those how to generate power with it when I’m ex- who actually sign up for a school. Notice I am hausted, how to use the technique against not including the guys who “self-train” and a faster opponent… everything that should only work out in small groups and attend accompany the knowledge of how to throw seminars: The most serious of martial arts stu- that hook, your knowledge will be as useless dents will actually commit to a teacher and as your 11th grade Spanish class. It’s not in school and stick with it for years–1% of them. the knowledge, it’s in the application. Those Sadly, most of the schools that one would things cannot be learned from a teacher or find are not led by a teacher knowledgeable medium that is ill-equipped to ensure you enough to provide this kind of training as well. possess those things. In other words, a quali- So, what happens is that martial arts fied teacher. And not just a qualified teacher, students will join a school, achieve the Black but a teacher that will not end the lesson just Belt, train for years after that, then leave to seek because he needs to get to the next city and out something/someone higher and deeper, collect another $5,000 bucks. A teacher who go from school to school, style to style, and will stay with you until you fully understand if he’s lucky–one day he may encounter that all those things–not one who will just drop old man who may or may not have a school. www.myfma.net the technique on you and hope you practice Let me tell you about that old man. If when he gets on that plane. Or a method of you know or have learned or seen anything learning that is over when the pizza arrives about the martial arts–he has seen and and you have to shut down the computer. learned and knows more. Depending on his The best teachers you will find are not age, he may have forgotten more than you www.fmapulse.com going to be accepted by the masses. He will have seen. If you truly are the serious student Visit the FMA Informative be patient with information he imparts to of the arts that you hope to be–he was once on Facebook - Click Here 2 FMA Informative Vol2 No3 2013 Vol2 No3 2013 FMA Informative 3 a man like you, encountering patient, lazy oaf who does not ferent* kind of martial arts nasty old master had died, sis in reality, have no combat- volves actual human bodies: can be honed for combative related pieces sewn together a man like him. Sometimes, deserve his time and knowl- students. Yeah right, go stand you recall that time you got ive foundation but they are Direct confrontation between response or can be shaped to make a whole: each piece that old man has a school and edge. Your money and flatter- in line kid. They all say that. ripped for $300 worth of shit necessary functions of that people on a physical level. Hu- into an artificial copy of those unique, each pattern or lack of will be open to taking on stu- ing compliments mean noth- So he takes you as a stu- lessons in some old codger’s teacher. Teaching something man bodies are built that form that teach them. Learning pattern in laying the patches dents. If you approach him ing to him. You must convince dent, finally, and shows you back yard. You are still search- complex and chaotic must be follows function. A human must echo the natural re- down unique and the final correctly, he will teach you in him to take him as a student. his first three hits in his sys- ing for the path to mastery, complex and therefore con- body is a wonder of construc- sponse and ignore the ego of quilt is unique, for it is born out the manner that is necessary He had schools, many years tem. He sends you to the back unaware that you had and lost fusing. Why make it simple. tion able to do many tasks as creating another in one’s own of uniqueness who’s founda- to achieve the skill level you ago, just like he had a wife. His yard or the classroom, and that one brush with the pos- Right? Wrong! Within the long as it conforms to our ac- image. This is where by teach- tion is random patterns. This is covet. More likely than not, if students ruined him financial- tells you to throw 2,000 strikes sibility of achieving it. So, like complex art of combat there tual structure and form. Hu- ing, the teacher gains under- the same way to teach and un- he takes you as a student, you ly by quitting and/or paying and let him know when you’re the rest of the guys you once is a given variable, highly mu- mans are bound by this struc- standing of these principles, derstand the chaos of combat. will get the foo-foo lessons tuition late. His students made done. After that workout, you said you’d be nothing like– table yet constant. The vari- tural restriction. For example which then can be taught to Organized Chaos of and will have to prove your- him second guess his chosen attend one or two, but then you join associations, you pad able is the act of combat itself. we cannot look directly be- the students. Awareness must combat is essentially small bio- self to get the real lessons. calling by being far less than work gets busy. Or the cost your resume and rank with Combat is different every time hind us; our arms cross over come to first to those that are mechanical modules (patches) You may have to grovel. In this appreciative and consistent of a plane ticket doesn’t jus- easy-to-obtain add-on arts, for every situation for every- our bodies in front, not behind, teaching. It is part of the learn- tied or sewn together with day and age, whether you are than he had been in his youth. tify the four days of calluses you avoid the younger ver- one involved. This is a con- our legs hinge and bend one ing curve. Again to state the connecting threads: points in America or the Philippines They were lazy and com- and sore joints you experi- sions of that old man to hang stant variable.
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