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12-08-2008, 11:41 AM
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I used a similar argument and my buddy tells me that's not how martial arts work. If you are a master of the form, that's the only form you need. Everything else is redundant.
I then asked if I know English, that it doesn't help me with Spanish or French. He told me that we aren't masters of the language we speak, and if we were, then we would be able to use the language we mastered to communicate with anyone.
I stopped talking about it.
Yeah, I would have stopped at that point to. That's just.. well.. uhm... yeah...
Is your buddy an expert in any form of martial arts or just talking?
A Tae Kwon Do master going up against a Karate master might be evenly matched, as each form is designed to go against itself, two different forms would be on relatively even ground. Now a Tae Kwon Do and Karate master would have an edge on someone that is just a Tae Kwon Do master or just a Karate master as the other forms would give the dual-master the ability to counter Karate and use the TKD to gain the advantage. Not saying the single-master couldn't win, but it would be harder.
Every region of the world (virtually) has it's own form of unarmed combat, even the french. To think that being the master of one form is enough is pretty short-sighted.
It's like learning multiple forms/styles in anything. It makes you better and more proficient. A guy working construction that knows just carpentry is still good and useful, but a guy working construction that knows carpentry, masonry and plumbing would still be good and even more useful.
English is a bad example of that language thing. If you were talking languages with the same root language (latin for French and spanish for example), then that may hold some validity. But even then you would be hard pressed. It would be easier, and given time you could do it. English is a bastardized language, our words have roots in all the different languages.
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