Why Martial Arts Don't Work • Martial Arts Journey

Many people believe that the martial art they are learning is enough to learn fighting and self defense, yet the truth is most martial arts don't work the way they are trained. In this Martial Arts Journey video I will be sharing my own story and observations derived from it, why many people say that martial arts don't work and why on a big level - it is true. The world is full of various martial arts. While their techniques and heritage may be different, they are all connected by the word “Martial”, meaning - relating to fighting and war. While there are various reasons a person may start martial arts for, most people start it wanting to learn how to protect themselves, yet too often they are promised something that they never really learn, even after years of training. Hi, my name is Rokas, and in this Martial Arts Journey video, I will share my story, how I learned that various Martial Arts don’t work the hard way. My first Aikido instructor mixed his classes with some Kyokushin basics and traditions, such as push-ups, endurance training, punching the bag and more. He also often spoke about street fighting, yet he never really gave advice how to act in an actual situation of self defense. The training was also very much technique focused and there were no live sparring or pressure testing during it. We were promised that by learning the techniques until perfecting them, that when the time will come, they will kick into action. Despite this promise, all the time while training, I had doubts about my ability to defend myself, yet believing in my instructors promise, I decided that I needed to train more of the same. I started training not only with teenagers, but with adults too, around 7 times per week of regular classes. I was also often doing extra training with my friends. To boost my confidence, I asked them to punch harder and resist more, while I did my techniques, yet even when there was more resistance, it was still cooperative training, as my partners were throwing specific attacks and their resistance consisted only of stiffening up to not allow a specific technique, rather offering live resistance which would teach me to adapt. Whether a martial art works or not does depend on what you want it to work for. It may be a great tool for personal development, or a means fitness and education, yet the word “Martial” in it’s description implies - that it Should develop effective skills meant for fighting, at least as a component. Unfortunately, most martial arts never expose themselves to enough pressure testing and alive drilling to witness the flaws behind some of it’s ideas of how it should work and why for someone it did not work. Many of them simply keep on polishing their techniques with compliant partners and hopes, that one day it will apply under live circumstances and may spend years doing so. Also, too often martial arts schools fail to address the difference between martial arts and self defense, and to teach effective strategies to deal with conflict, instead of indirectly encouraging students to expect to defend themselves physically in all situations. Of course, different martial arts have this issue on different levels, based on how it is trained. Judo and some styles of Karate, for example, do offer much more pressure testing than many other martial arts such as kung-fu or ninjutsu. Also, some schools do have seperate classes for their martial art and actual self defense. Yet this consideration of what the martial art promises, and whether does it really deliver it - is very important for all practices. While sharing my personal story, I hope it did help shed some understanding of what is implied the next time you will hear someone saying that Martial Arts don’t work. What do you think about various martial arts failing to deliver their promise? Did you experience something similar? Let me know in the comments. If you liked the video, make sure to share it with your friends. If you want more videos like this one, subscribe to the Martial Arts Journey channel. For more Aikido, BJJ ( Brazilian Jiu Jitsu ), Self Defense, Boxing and other videos check our official page to find all the various YouTube series: www.rokasleo.com SUBSCRIBE to see when the next videos will come out: ► http://bit.ly/1KPZpv0 If you want to support this project and see more of these videos check my Patreon page: ► https://www.patreon.com/rokasleo Check the video which started it all: ► https://youtu.be/0KUXTC8g_pk