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IMHO.Martial arts proper have better, more holistic content, but fall out of the food chain easily for lack of pressure....
09/17/2026

IMHO.

Martial arts proper have better, more holistic content, but fall out of the food chain easily for lack of pressure. Martial sports have good training methodology due to their competitive nature, but become overspecialized and lose their applicability and ethos outside the sport.

The cure for martial arts is simply to retain effective training methodology, perhaps even with non-institutionalized competitive aspects. The cure for martial sports -if one wishes to have a pretense toward real fighting at all- is simply to diversify outside the scope of the sport.

09/14/2026

Traditional (rondel) dagger basics flow.

There’s a persistent myth -among its practitioners, strangely- that this weapon type restricts one’s grip to 90 degrees, among other things. Patently false, if you train with one.

St Bernard’s admonishment to warriors (12th c). As we often say; practice violence in the training hall, practice kindne...
09/10/2026

St Bernard’s admonishment to warriors (12th c). As we often say; practice violence in the training hall, practice kindness everywhere else.

09/07/2026

Longsword flourish; dexterity and basics flow, in place, 4 directions ⚔️

09/07/2026

If you study [martial art] but you don’t take my Threat Discernment Training™️ and Use of Force Matrix™️ you’re running a serious risk. The average martial artist (the preceding 10,000 generations) who hasn’t had this NECESSARY training commonly runs the unacceptable gamble of, say, chopping grandma in the throat when she places her hand on your shoulder from behind, or of being a slave to muscle memory and stomping out an opponent you’ve already neutralized. This is a serious blind spot in most martial arts.

When you study a traditional martial art that has a predominantly institutionalized sport counterpart, but you pretty mu...
09/04/2026

When you study a traditional martial art that has a predominantly institutionalized sport counterpart, but you pretty much have to operate under the same vague descriptor as a matter of convenience.

Some martial sports are more adaptable than others, but the institutionalization of a martial art as sport is invariably...
09/01/2026

Some martial sports are more adaptable than others, but the institutionalization of a martial art as sport is invariably its utter degradation, both in efficacy and culture. Sport elements can always be a useful addition, but their institutionalization turns any Art to trash.

They become overspecialized, adding technique that fails to function outside the scope of the sport, and by paring away many -if not most- of its most violently functional attributes, which become fouls, at best.

This lack of martial purpose additionally and invariably leads to the loss of martial ethic, and its replacement by sport ethic.

I’ve seen all this happen -in real time- to more than one martial art; one near to my heart. I’ve seen BJJ, e.g., go from its first marketing strategy in the UFC to the point where most stylists, without cross training, are utterly harmless due to its specialization as a sport.

08/29/2026

The lethal precision of a 250 (+/-) year old sword.

I’m no museum curator or antique dealer, but I’ve fortunately been able to vigorously handle my share of antique weapons that I train to use over the years. One can certainly get through their traditional martial arts training without that opportunity, but it is always enlightening and there’s nothing quite like that connection to the past.

This smallsword is the most modern sword style I own, and of all the martial art weapons I’ve ever handled, it is inherently the most lethally precise.

I should note that I don’t train people with the smallsword -too modern for my preference- as I haven’t been trained with it. It has a living lineage, and to teach any art with a living lineage one hasn’t been trained under is fraud, as far as I’m concerned.

Yeah, it’s like that. Some of my recent (stereotypical) interactions prompted this meme. This happens when you have dive...
08/24/2026

Yeah, it’s like that.

Some of my recent (stereotypical) interactions prompted this meme. This happens when you have divergent cultures operating simultaneously under an overarching culture (traditional vs postmodern, in this case). The postmodern disdains their own traditions while revering that of the foreign. It has been no less notable in the martial arts for at least 70 years.

Edit:
PSA for the genuine yet ignorant and incredulous.
-Primary sources quoted in the meme:

“The sword is the soul of the samurai.”
-Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1616 AD

“The sword is a cross and a noble weapon…”
-Filippo Vadi, martial arts master, 15th c AD

“The sword symbolizes chivalry and justice.”
-Ramon Lull, knight, 13th c AD

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