Anyone can fight. Anyone can defend themselves. Anyone can be physically and mentally fit. Martial Arts are just one path of many to find confidence in your own abilities and to hone those abilities. Each style of martial arts shares the same aim, bettering its students. And any practitioner of any style can become an effective martial artist. The difference is the way they become effective. The individual style is what must be measured, without any bias from those who are training in the style. This distinction must be stressed, without it I am no better than those who claim they have found the only true way of martial arts. What I hope to find is what styles are most effective at what. If a style of martial arts has been around long then it obviously must have some merit or people would stop training in it. But, when it comes down to self-defense I want to know which style would deal with it most effectively, without the personal adaptation of any practitioner. I want to make sure that my intention is not misunderstood; I am not judging styles for their philosophy or anything beyond the basic merits of its self-defense, just the certain basic and average reactions of a style, combined with the basic teachings and maneuvers of the style.
Thank You for reading,
Mr. Waaler
Statement of Purpose
This project is an investigation of 5 Martial Arts styles. Self-defense is a major theme in martial arts today and to better understand how different martial arts schools and styles treat self-defense I am going to learn all I can (given time restraints) about each of the five styles. These schools will be chosen from a list of local martial arts studios, and the style will be the one that is taught at that studio. Many studios teach multiple styles, so in this case on of the styles taught there will be analyzed. At the end of the project all the schools I visited will be rated and scored to show in which areas they excel or by contrast, fall short.
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