What is important in a leader/teacher?
Dirk says
So, when it comes to martial arts you have to ask yourself what is important in a leader/teacher. Is it being able to win 50 street fights or being able to create a global organization of millions?
There are so many ways to explore this question. Comparisons of various Arts and their Founders, comparisons between Bujutsu and Budo, Sports Organisations or militia. I guess you have to start with definitions. How to define a martial art in the first place. What is included, what is excluded? A country's infantry might have a Close Quarter Combative training program. surely that's a martial art! A baton-twirling gymnast in a sparkly costume that vaguely resembles a dogi, they'd be calling that a martial art.
Ueshiba Morihei, So Doshin, Oyama Mas... or the guy who did the videos for Tae-Bo in the 1980s. What is "important" for YOUR matial art?
David Noble
Shorinji Kempo (1983 - 1988)
I'll think of a proper sig when I get a minute...
For now, I'm just waiting for the smack of the Bo against a hard wooden floor....