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How do we know what makes for effective technique? (Effective techniques are about applying the proper methodology to the given situation while supporting the methodologies with the fundamental principles with emphasis on physiokinetics; it is about principled based practices rather than technique based efforts)
What standard can we use to measure our martial arts for effectiveness? (principles for if the principles are not balanced properly then the effectiveness of the effort dies out and falls to nothing)
Does it “Work” in self-defense? (primarily, for karate, it is about self-defense and that means adhering to all the principles involved including the principle of self-defense itself)
Does it “Work” in sport? (distinctions are important for all of this, to distinguish between the various ways one can apply karate addresses those special methods along with appropriate training models to achieve success)
What part of the world of violence will it work against and will it transcend all lines of conflict and violence? (karate, itself, cannot transcend all the lines of conflict and violence. The whole is way bigger than karate in its current state but karate can train one to apply principled based methodologies then it comes down once again to the distinctions of its applications for the types of conflict and violence involved. This is why the fundamental principles themselves hold more importance than the actually system or style itself.)
Is the system of practice adequate for the situations you will likely encounter? (Distinctions, it all comes down to distinctions and proper training and practices toward the goals indicative to the distinctiveness of the actual situation at hand be it fighting, combatives or self-defense.)
In other words, will a methodology work in a given self-defense scenario, against a skilled, larger, stronger adversary who will resist at every opportunity and in every conceivable manner and who in all likelihood attack with complete and utter surprise causing you to lose structure and balance while causing you damage? (the reason why self-defense spans a greater chasm of conflict and violence other than the narrow parameters of karate or a martial art.)
Is it even possible that any given system, style or technique or combination of techniques or combination of strategies “Work” for every conceivable manner of conflict/violence? (herein lies the conundrum of all fighting, combatives, self-defense, etc., that they often do not cover all possibilities in self-defense situations; to assume any one thing can address the myriad things that are conflict, violence and the defenses necessary toward survival is just stupidity, it takes a whole system of systems to learn, understand and then apply those strategies necessary to handle conflict and violence regardless of the level and extent of same)
In MASD (Martial Arts Self-Defense), one cannot afford to stake their safety, security and life on untested methodologies. Does the strategy, tactic, principle-based methodology, and goal work in a real SD situation or at least in a reality based training and practice situation?
The general method of testing a system/principle is to test to make sure “It works.” It works is complicated due to perceptions and assumptions along with the degree of experience and the depth and breadth of that experience simply because no one technique or goal or strategy or tactic will work in all SD situations of conflict and/or violence. The “Does it Work” measure also varies greatly. To use an arbitrary standard of measure requires an understanding of the variance according to each individual and the situations and environments that expose them to conflict and/or violence.
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