Went to a new club to train this evening. New in the sense that it was new to me. The club itself has been going for a decade or so. Thus, been around for some time and a reasonable amount of members. However, as seems to be the normal, more kids than adults. Even so, there was a dozen adults and a couple of dan grades.
Went through the usual warm and basics to get the joints, tendons, and muscles warmed up and flexible. Particularly as nobody told "Winter" that it's time is over and it should relent and hand over to Spring. It actually snowed today!
Anyhow, I digress. The warm up and the basics were a good solid workout. We then moved onto some more combinations which tested my co-ordination, balance and flexibility! We then moved onto some pair work.
This was the fairly straightforward "attack, block & counter-attack". All seemed well but i noticed the the face punch from my partner stopped several inches from my face. Good, you may think. But this is a martial art and as a Dan grade of nearly 30 years I am sure I could handled a punch that did actually intended to hit the target.
But no....if i did not move the punch would still be 6 inches short of the target. This infuriates me as I thought "What is the point" tends to run through my mind in this situation.
I was taught that the "Art" in martial art was also to denote the expertise you gain through training. Which meant, the "art" was to know when to pull the punch within millimetres of the target or to let it go through.
Do we really practice martial arts today? If sense, we do not....
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