Where Did The Martial Arts Come From?

[I:http://motorcaravanworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/AlCase3.jpg] I was working in a tubing factory a few decades ago, and wordspread that I was training in the martial arts. A Philippine co-worker came up to me at one point, and he said, "You no study martial arts, martial Arts bad…bad, " then he shook his head and walked away. From this quick meeting I ultimately realized how the martial arts were invented.

As one might expect, I was quite surprised by my co-workers viewpoint, the Philippines were famous for their martial arts, and so I tracked him down and queried him further. "Why do you think the martial arts are so bad?" I asked. This is the anecdote he told me.

"One day I decide I need martial arts, so I go outside and chop tree. I chop like this (he did a downward chop, as if hammering down on somebody's head), and a I chop and I chop. I practice this karate two hour a day for two year.

"One weekend my neighbor have crazy, wild party, and three in morning I go ask him to stop music. He just laugh, so I chop him. I chop his face and he turn upside down, so I tun home and worry I kill him…that why Karate so bad!"

I didn't crack a grin, because he was serious, he really thought the art was bad, and didn't understand that his bizarre method of self training, and his own lack of control, might have something to do with 'being bad.' But his story led me to wonder where and how the martial arts had originated. I mean, the fighting disciplines are the world's second oldest profession, so where did they come from?

They came into existence because somebody wanted to take something away from somebody else, and they came from somebody wanting to stop somebody from taking something away. This is nothing more than lawyerism, but applied to the actual hit and punch that occurs when communication breaks down. Eventually, the notion of stealing from somebody, or protecting your property from somebody reached the magnitude of entire armies and weapons of mass destruction.

The idea that what you own belongs to me, and I don't have to pay you no stinkin' money…that is where the fighting arts originated. And people train to war, and steal money and property and wives and whatever else they think can get away with. And, oddly, as my previous words gave hint, the solution to this avarice and bastardization of art is…in the study of the true art.

You study the art to protect yourself, and in that practice you discover the truth of yourself…you discover your self worth, and the idea that you are honorable and don't have to fear others, or that they might take from you. On the day that everybody on earth knows the martial arts, on that day the immorality and war stop, and on that day everybody will know where the martial arts originated. They come from inside, from the spirit, from the honor that motivates every beat of your heart and every breath you give.

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