- Concept Establishment
The best way to organize and understand subject is seeing and realizing boundary and build up standard for subject so that I categorized sparring concept by the main purpose of contact, the style of Arts, the methods and the standard of contact power level.
- What does Martial Arts Rules and Regulations stand for?
People live in different environment like Japan is in island, China is in big continental and Korea have a lot of mountain the same as the rest of other Countries. When people live in their environment, people must adopt well their environment however they can’t survive or success in their life.
Martial Arts are developed by people who get influent by what they surrounding their environment such as weather, size of land, shape of land, elevation and different enemies. This fact made their style of Martial Art shaped, which rule and regulations, were from Nature their environment to live. Time after time people have created and developed way of the path their Martial Technique to next generation and those Martial knowledge and technique which included the way of contact practice.
Since we developed our technology in modern times we overcome more our environment facts which we do not get effect rule and regulation from the nature anymore. That also made our enemy changed differently.
In conclusion, rules and regulations for contact is artificial environment where their Martial Arts legacy from.
Key Fact
Style of Art | Country | Environments | Targeted develop | Weapons example |
Taekwondo | Korea | Mountain, wooded area | Agility and needs stronger leg | Short Bow, Straight sword |
Karate, Kendo | Japan | Island, Ship | Firm block and smaller step | Katana sword and way of their swing style |
Kung Fu (Northern Style) | China | Wide open meadow | Jumping and longer action | Long spear, Turning momentum use |
Style of Sparring | Targeted skill | Main Basic Motions | Rules | Art |
Taekwondo Sparring | Lower body skill | Kick: 90% Hand: 10% Ground: 0% | No allow punch to head and no ground | Kicking |
Boxing Sparring | Upper body skill | Kick: 0% Hand: 100% Ground: 0% | No kicking and no ground | Punching |
Judo Sparring | Ground skill | Kick: 0% Hand: 0% Ground: 100% | No Punching and no kicking | Grappling |
v Key fact- As you see the above table when we restrict basics except for what we want to target to be improved basics.
v Key fact- No specific style of Martial Arts is the strongest however person who adopt right style of Arts in right situations.