It is true that there are only eight Martial Arts techniques in the world. I wrote a piece on this a while ago, but I have had a few people asking me, so let me write again. Hopefully I won't be repeating myself.
There are eight specific kinds of attacks. These are when somebody initiates an attack in these fashions. A club, a knife, a gun, a sword, a spear, a fist, a foot, and from behind.
Now you could stretch some of these, or perhaps argue that not all should be included, but remember I chose these after several decades in the martial arts. There is reason for these choices, and these reasons have to do with analyzing the potential motions of the universe. Guaranteed, these eight techniques cover everything, and even allow for future evolution of the martial artist.
You could refine things even more. For instance, you consider everything as a line. Thus, there would be a medium-sized blunt line, a short sharp line, a line of projection of variable length, a long sharp line, a medium-sized curved sharp line, a line from the ground, a line from the shoulder, a line representing an attack from the rear.
You could extend the Catchers (which is what I call these eight martial arts moves) by including such notions as a line with a bend (hinges), such as a nunchuck or triple section staff. Or a flexible line, which would define a bullwhip. You wouldn't be in error, but studying my eight moves will prepare you to handle other potential lines.
Now, here is the big warning about all this. The Catchers are really advanced self defense moves. This is because one should study a variety of techniques, even whole arts, in depth and to an extreme if they want to make the Catchers work.
The Catchers, you see, can best be utilized if one knows all the potentials of motion behind them. If one has not studied whole arts, all the deviations in ranges and attacks and so on, then one simply does not have enough data (depth and variety) to make the Catchers work. So you simply must study not just one art, but a whole variety of arts.
This means that you must study not just karate, but kung fu and aikido and tai chi and so on. Truth, the Catchers were actually developed after, and specifically because of, research into weapons and types of Kung Fu. Guaranteed, you must have a lot of data under your belt if you want to make these Martial Arts Techniques work.
There are eight specific kinds of attacks. These are when somebody initiates an attack in these fashions. A club, a knife, a gun, a sword, a spear, a fist, a foot, and from behind.
Now you could stretch some of these, or perhaps argue that not all should be included, but remember I chose these after several decades in the martial arts. There is reason for these choices, and these reasons have to do with analyzing the potential motions of the universe. Guaranteed, these eight techniques cover everything, and even allow for future evolution of the martial artist.
You could refine things even more. For instance, you consider everything as a line. Thus, there would be a medium-sized blunt line, a short sharp line, a line of projection of variable length, a long sharp line, a medium-sized curved sharp line, a line from the ground, a line from the shoulder, a line representing an attack from the rear.
You could extend the Catchers (which is what I call these eight martial arts moves) by including such notions as a line with a bend (hinges), such as a nunchuck or triple section staff. Or a flexible line, which would define a bullwhip. You wouldn't be in error, but studying my eight moves will prepare you to handle other potential lines.
Now, here is the big warning about all this. The Catchers are really advanced self defense moves. This is because one should study a variety of techniques, even whole arts, in depth and to an extreme if they want to make the Catchers work.
The Catchers, you see, can best be utilized if one knows all the potentials of motion behind them. If one has not studied whole arts, all the deviations in ranges and attacks and so on, then one simply does not have enough data (depth and variety) to make the Catchers work. So you simply must study not just one art, but a whole variety of arts.
This means that you must study not just karate, but kung fu and aikido and tai chi and so on. Truth, the Catchers were actually developed after, and specifically because of, research into weapons and types of Kung Fu. Guaranteed, you must have a lot of data under your belt if you want to make these Martial Arts Techniques work.
About the Author:
The Catchers are the logical result of studying Blinding Steel and Matrix Kung Fu (Monkey Boxing). Head to Monster Martial Arts to learn more about these arts.