*Teaching Someone they can move from a knife point right on their chest.
...explain it better
Bodywork wrote:wayne hansen wrote:If all these people know who you are and how deadly you are why don't you use your real name or post any info about yourself
Deadly?
Really? How fascinating.
My Name is Dan Harden I live in the U. S. In Mass. My web page is at the bottom of my signature. And I travel and teach in open rooms in front of about 1200 people a year. My students range from shihan to over 20 shihan in traditional and modern arts including koryu to bjj world champs and MMA guys. And...I teach a bunch of Systema guys with Vlads approval.
It's not a competition. Cross training enhances everyone's work. He knows I respect systema on many levels.
Deadly? Hmm... Did you really just say that on a martial arts forum? I can introduce you to old school bikers I used to hang with who, on the whole, are more dangerous than ANY martial artist I've ever met. More importantly real spec ops friends of mine who I teach. THEY.. really are deadly. With body counts, bad dreams, PTSD and all that goes with it. We are all pikers compared to those guys.
Bodywork wrote:dspyrido wrote:Dan (aka bodywork) clearly you've done some aikido but is there a profile of your background anywhere? Also you tend to talk down about a lot of stylists so why not promote some - who do you or did you respect?
Because I have so many teachers training with me I try to stay away from recommending individuals.
I respect anyone... anyone....who is honest about their training and their goals; from newbies to Shihan.
I'm critical of things and people that are not as advertised, such as:
*soft art people thinking- really imagining- they can fight,
*internal people who don't have a Dantian or move from the center and think they do because they hit hard,
*most anyone with a weapon in their hands who shouldn't have.
*external artists who dismiss internals
That said there are thousands of decent martial artists out there. And you should only care what I think if I present a good argument. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I just get ornery when I see or read garbage information.
The internet is too much of students who shouldn't be talking or youtubing *anything* to *anyone* at this point in their training then getting hurt, angry and defensive when they are called on their short comings.The kua thread is a good example:
I was stating people don't know what they are taking about, then refusing to tell them the answer because it was in their own arts, proding them to find the answers. And there the answers were, from their own teachers. Why didn't they know?
We need to feel less entitled to answers
Less sensitive and defensive to correction
More humble about where we are in our journey. Sharing, just because you own a camera, isn't going too well in my view.
I love the comment one teacher gave when asked why he wouldn't talk on internet forums.
"Why argue... with students?"
I thought that was poignant; reminding everyone of their place and their willingness to argue... from the bottom.
Or how about a 74 year old who trained and was ranked from Ueshiba, who showed the training they use to do, pushing on the body and how Ueshiba would laugh at the guys wanting to just grab and do techniques. When we told her about the internet debate between old and modern methods she nodded and said:
"Oh, internet. What do they know? Did they train with Osensei!"
If all of us met and trained together....
Both the tone and nature of these discussions would radically change. So would the list if people you were willing to listen to.
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