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Regarding your pet peeve, don't you think that the individual's style, interpretation, and individual application of taught material make it a form of art? You
by grannyg00se 15y ago
Regarding your pet peeve, don't you think that the individual's style, interpretation, and individual application of taught material make it a form of art? You similarly teach painting technique and skill, and repetitively practice a certain technique, even on the same image over and over again. Once the person learns what you are attempting to teach, and they start to implement it in their own way, in new scenarios, then it starts to become artful.
- roel_v 15y agoI didn't mean to let this go off into a discussion on when something is 'art', but by this definition playing soccer is an 'art' too. When one leaves the notion that fighting is the goal, then I guess it can become an 'art'; but that's not what people mean when they say 'martial art'. They like to still have it be associated with effective fighting, yet at the same time also have it float in a cloud of mysticism. What I'm saying is - either some style is a dance or stylized movement form, or it's a system to fight effectively. The first I don't mind calling 'art', frankly I don't care much about it. The second is not 'art', it's science - it's about finding (through hypotheses, falsifying them, empirical testing, the whole yadda yadda) the most effective way to inflict various forms of damage to a human body (one can debate how far the use of tools can go in this - if swords are OK, why not landmines; but that's a different discussion).