Maybe this is the wrong section but I would like to keep this pretty much KTL.
1) Did You learn any philosophical ascpects of the martial art youīre practicing at your dojo/school?
2) Do You think that these philosophies can be applied to (your) life and do you live by them?
Considering how we are affected and influenced by our environmet, especially school and parents for example, do you think MA has a (positive) influence on the praciticiners mentality? Or maybe we learn our values mainly somewhere else and the things that go on in this small world itself (i mean the dojo) just affect the interested and open-minded who would contemplate about certain things and questions anyway sometime?
3) Do you think it is neccessary to have your master/teacher/coach teach you these? Or do we learn them by ourselves? What do we learn? And how?
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I did eight years of (Shotokan-)Karate, 2 years of Tae Kwon Do, 2,5 years of Wing Tsun and for 6 months Iīve been doing Capoeira and Kickboxing.
My teachers never gave explicit teachings on philosophies etc. But in Karate itīs in the martial art - "you never strike first" for example.
Then I didnīt care anymore - I just wanted effectiveness.
Now I think the more you train the more you can become the technique. and the technique becomes you. You develop your own style. That is the truth. Like Bruce Lee said: MA is an hones way of self-expression. This is all there is for me. No codex, no moral. At least not explicit. A teacher can guide - but before that the student must constantly train hard to find himself.
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