Fighting Philosophies.

[John]

"I plan nothing, there fore plan everything."

This is my interpritation of Lee-Sensei's "Limitation without limitation, way without way." quote. I put my own twist on it, if I plan nothing in a fight, and keep completely open about future events then I will be prepared for anything. I do not plan to throw a punch, I just throw a punch, I do not plan to kick, I just kick. There is still a delay in your movements if you think about doing something, Bruce Lee said:

"I mean, here it is, natural instinct, and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony, if you have one to the extreme, you will be very unscientific, if you have another to the extreme, you become all of a sudden, a mechanical man... No longer a human being, so it is a successful combination of both..."

Which is a way of letting your body react with instinct, but having it a 'Scientific' instinct, he practiced so much that the way of his fighting had been imprinted into his instinct. Like a basic Jeet Kun do methad is for an apponent to reach you, he must get close. so you attack with your longest weapon, your leg. and you aim for the closest target, their thigh, or shin. Blocking their movement forward, with in Cantonese Jeet Kune do means "Way of the intercepting fist" hopefully you understand why now. So the quote from before is my interpritation of al this.

((I'll share one of my philosophies every time someone else shares one of theirs.))

[Karel]

I feel like reviving this, so...

"Speed" does not "exist" in martial arts.

Fact. How you see it is up to you - anyone who's fought me i nthe past would know this naturally. Miyamoto Musashi states that a person who focuses on speed does so simply because of their ineptitude at keeping up with their opponent's rhythm (I was actually considering making an animation where the main character was a speed based fighter and gets his ass handed to him, still might do so in the future...).

Bruce Lee is not the best. Just one of the most famous.

Fact. For some reason, every person I meet who studies Jeet Kun Do somehow thinks they're the best in any fight - then they lose in a brawl. Just proof that your style means shit if you still don't understand what Martial Arts or what your specific style is all about.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

A physics concept by Isaac Newton, the words here is what I use for most of Karel's daring offensive counters. IC, you'll rarely see my character even being "hurt" - and no it isn't because I'm being all god but because every offensive action someone makes, there will always be an opening. By attacking those particular openings, you essentially "attack an attack" thereby nulling an opponent's offense and at the same time dealing damage. Of course, this can only be overcome if the person isn't human, buuuut...

There is no offense in Chinese Martial Arts.

Reminds me of Masataka Takayanagi in Tenjou Tenge - but in reality it's a general rule that for some reason many modern practitioners seem to forget.

[Zack Asiv]

No Style Is Better Than Any Other

In truth there is no style that is the best. The skill of a person is what matters most, if you are not good at fighting then naturally you will lose to someone good at fighting, right? Same thing if you look at it int he many different styles of fighting that are floating around. Everything depends on the skill of the user. As Karel said people who study the ways of Jeet Kune Do often think themselves the best because the way of fighting was made by the best. Which doesnt work, since you actually have to put in the 30 years of practice and training to get that good. Its not the style its the user of the style.

All ways or styles are equil in existing as well as people are equil in existince. But some people are sprinters int he olympics while others are Mathmatics experts, or biologists. A good example would be like putting a biologist into an olympic sprinting event while the biologist is only good at biology. What happens? The biologist gets left in the wake of the dust that fell to the ground before he even started.

[Karel]

Not a fighting philosophy, but something deep that came from TT as well.

It's bullshit that people are born equal. Which is why when they die, they lose everything.

[Jason Harris]

Strength means little if anything at all in a fight.

I'm not saying that it doesn't help to be strong, but just because you're strong does not mean you can beat anyone in a fight. If your a big person that can't move fast you will get beat by a quick person every time. Why? Because you can't move fast enough to hit him. I've seen this happen all the time. The huge jock that can't reach around to starch his ass cause his muscle is in the way gets beat up my the small quick guy for the simple reason the small guy was just to fast for the jock.

I'll post more later.

[Karel]

Yeah yeah, took me a while sorry.

Strict adherence to any singular style is naught but detrimental to the true Martial "way".

This is actually used broadly - it takes into account all things regarding martial arts. The style, the body, the beliefs. It's basically a philosophy where a person is truly open minded and does not see things as good or bad, but sees them for what they are not what they are defined or determined by. In other words, strength is strength, speed is speed and martial arts is martial arts - therefore, it accepts that while it is coincidental that all these elements are often put together, they are in fact seperate and all of it is relational in some way to one another.

Think of it this way... you can be all bulky and be strong, and in reality you would actually be pretty fast (unless you're an American or something. Joke. By this I mean an "idiot" who focuses on nothing but their muscle's size) and even if someone is faster than you, that speed can be outdone by superior foresight and strategy - and even if the faster one should have a higher degree of foresight and strategy, stronger one can simply use the environment - such as moving into an enclosed area where evasion becomes an extremely difficult task. Of course, one might say that this involves strategy and with that said, it's an endless cycle of "scissors, paper, rock" (or slug, snake, frog).

To make it short, "all aspects are simply perspectives" and that there is no "absolute right or wrong". Extremely confusing sh!t, I tell 'ya, but hey that's me.

[Mr. Kaar]

Ignore everything I've said, I've just noticed I'm a fucking hypacrit.

[Winters]

Comrade, can't ignore what you said. It's an ideal. Even if actions betray the ideologies, that does not mean that the ideals themselves are impure. Most practitioners of their own ideals have to go very close to going against the very thing they create, as is the paths being very similar, and everyone I know of usually ends up going TO that other side, making them a hypocrite, but that does not change the ideals.

..Hell, you're looking at 17 years of hypocrisy right here, man.

And, uh, sorry, don't have any fighting philosophies that come to mind right now.

[Zack Asiv]

So if I use Muay Thai and you use boxing, then I'll win because of my style? There is no human factor?