Create Your Fighting Style
Have you ever wanted to practice a martial art, but it was too out of your grasp? Do you want to create a fighting style of your own? This excellent guide will show you how.
Steps
- Take a moment to search yourself before creating your fighting style. This can include how you kick, your throws, punches, ducks, etc. Try to focus more on them.
- Get a willing sparring partner, preferably of similar ability and similar size. Then practice until you get a feeling of which moves work for you and until they come out naturally.
- Begin molding your personal fighting style. Be sure to make the moves yours and not something you saw off of Naruto or something.
- Apply a moral to be perfectly confident in your fighting style. In order to be balanced, you must have a lighter side. A perfect example is Yin and Yang.
Tips
- Imagine developing your own Skill Tree is like Bonsai Tree Trimming. Let the Branch grow freely, then trim off unnecessary branches.
- If you can, use rattan or boffer or other safe weapons. Never train with a steel blade unless its master to upcoming master; even then use an un-sharpened training blade.
- First, learn as vast as possible, as free as possible, as much as possible; grow your knowledge, you never know which knowledge is useful until you mastered it (how would you know something is not worth knowing when you haven't understand it? hmmm... :) ).
- Thirdly, Solve your Weakness, there is always other side of the coin. Find out your weaknesses, face it, understand it, solve it, and then improve.
- Repeat the process.
- Fifth, Live-long-learning and continuous improvement :)
- Train in your fighting style and have an eager sparring partner for ready sparring matches.
- If people like your fighting style, create ranks and take them under your wing. Train them Sensei.
- Secondly, Grow your Strength. As you learn and train, you will pick up something that you good at doing. Improve it, make your Strength your Weapon Of Choice. Whatever that you good at doing, make it better :).
- A good fighter trains half-and-half in both fighting and thinking.
- If you can, buy those big human-like dummies in those sports stores. I found a perfect dummy in Sports Chalet. It's pretty beat up right now.
- Fourth, "Be Lean, Be Mean, Be Simple." Summarize everything important, and throw away un-important, and un-necessary skill sets.
- "No such thing as The Best, there are always Better." ;)
Warnings
- When you're training, be sure there are no furniture or objects in your way.
- Don't be a show-off, don't just start showing your moves out of nowhere.
- Do not have the illusion that having made up a fighting style means you're particularly good at fighting now, or that your own style is on par with serious martial arts that have stood the test of time. Stay out of trouble if you can avoid it.
- Feeling a bit of soreness? Don't overdo your training! This would be a perfect time to meditate and unwind.
- Avoid the thinking that you will automatically jump into a fighting stance; your brain will always resists the urges of muscle memory.
- Avoid focusing too much on one aspect; for example karate focuses too much on boxing techniques and possesses no speed in reversing back attacks.
Things You'll Need
- First-aid
- Dummies/pads/cushions/etc.
- Bandages (for your arms, ankles, and wrists)
