Martial
Arts Training Not Just About Being Practical
I find
it slightly amusing that quite often when I talk to other martial
artists, some of them get so worked up about what’s practical and what
isn’t. In one discussion, we were talking about martial arts
weaponry including bo staffs and swords. This one fellow was
commenting that swords are not practical since we don’t usually carry
around swords anymore but sticks can be found anywhere, which can
substitute for staffs.
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This
is the same type of fellow who would discredit the fancy moves in many
bo staff forms, especially the open and extreme style of weapons forms
since they are not practical for the streets.
Although he has a point in all this, he is missing something that will
be very relevant for many martial artists.
Although many of the fancy moves in both weapons and non-weapons
martial arts forms as well as unpractical weapons such as swords have
very little use in real life combat or self defense situations, one
should not forget that there are other purposes with these.
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Many
martial arts techniques and activities, no matter how unpractical they
are, can still be done for the pure enjoyment. There’s the
exercise involved, which benefits health both physically and
mentally. There’s the show aspect, which entertains audiences
(and what’s wrong with entertaining audiences?).
There’s the progression of skills involved, which help with confidence
levels to do other things in life. This is certainly
practical for one’s own personal development.
There’s also the lowering of boredom because a bit of variety in
martial arts enables people to train and keep interested in martial
arts much longer. The evidence in this is for those who take
up martial arts just to learn practical techniques and nothing else,
their years spent in martial arts are often relatively short because
after they learn the practical aspects, they just become bored.
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Yes, we’ve come a long way in the martial arts world in terms of
realizing what exactly is practical and what is not. This may
have started out with Bruce Lee when he pounced on classical and
traditional techniques. Of course, he had strong points which
ultimately led to mixed martial arts or MMA which are so popular these
days.
At the same time, open style martial arts forms became more exciting
and extreme in the competition circuits and this includes the
introduction of Chinese wushu. These developments may seem to
be in complete contrast to the MMA mixed martial arts movement.
These seem like two very distinct and distant camps in the martial arts
world. As a result, many martial artists from the practical
side would be quick to discredit the ‘fancy’ side. But
really, there’s no need to.
So there are many other aspects to martial arts besides just the
practical techniques. The whole enjoyment that non-practical,
i.e., the fancy stuff in martial arts, should not be
discounted. Martial artists can train with these other
techniques no matter how useless they would be on the street just for
the pure enjoyment. Train for similar
reasons why people choose to play tennis or golf. For the
pure enjoyment.
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