Your own martial art......

[Superbabe]

OK

Without refering to any technique or style, answer the following.

You have never in your life had any contact with any Martial Art nor even heard of them. You decide to create your own art. You have your whole life time to train in this art and you can spend as much time training as you like.
You can even train with other people but they like you have no knowledge of martial arts.

Do you think your style would be as good as what you train in today, or better or worse? And what would it be like?

 

[absolute hardgainer]

If you never had any training in martial arts at all then what would you base your own martial art on?

hardgainer (?)

 

[Superbabe]

at some point every art started somewhere.......

 

[dirty]

i think I would suck, it would be more boxing or wrestling based, as I was never very flexible in my legs until I started kung fu

dirty

 

[absolute hardgainer]

Superbabe, I don't think most traditional martial arts actually started out as martial arts. In Okinawa for example Karate was used for centuries without being called Karate or actually regarded as an art form. As humans evolved they decided to encode patterns to counter habitual acts of violence which over time became martial arts. Today's 'new' martial arts are for the most part based on what has already been practiced.

Try www.society.webcentral.com.au on info on MA history, in particular on Karate.

hardgainer (kiai)

 

[Thaibox]

Interesting question. Mine would probably be based on kicking because its sort of a natural feeling for me.

Damn, now you've got me thinking.

 

[DesertTiger]

Wrestling

Wrestling is the oldest form of unarmed combat. Its on hiroglyphics in Egypt and mentioned in the bible a couple of times. They had no other martial art to base thier style on. They started to wrestle because its a natural way of fighting. Little kids will wrestle without any instruction naturally.

 

[HAD]

Kung Fu was based on animal movements.

 

[Skeeter1]

Superbabe, that is a great question. My answer is that all Martial arts have developed in accordence with the laws governing the bodys basic kenisetic spectrum so i would have to come up with something similar to what now exists, my guess is depending on bodytype and aptitude there would be a certian inclination, to kick, punch, grapple,ect more.

 

[Superfoot]

If that was my purpose in life, I'd try to get into a lot of fights.

After getting the crap beaten out of me a few times, I'd get a good idea of what I needed to work on (and give that a try). I'd also see what worked for other people.

If nothing else, I might learn that I'm a lover not a fighter...