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Art is the fact and process of creating something. A simple statement with profound and far reaching effects. Art is the break down and synthesis of the old patterns into new and varied possibilities.
The funny thing is that most instructors frown on the act of creating anything new. The most popular method of teaching is to have the student copycat, exactly and without deviation, what the teacher says and does. But a fight is always new and original, and requires creativity to win.
Thus, if you are going to win a fight, it behooves you to learn how to be creative. Interestingly, nobody has ever written a course or book on how to be creative. Isn't that interesting, a whole art that has no creativity in it?
To be creative one has to break apart the current method of teaching one is engaged in. Thus, one method for being creative would be to simply take the moves of the forms and interchange them. Take a sequence from classical karate, say the first set of specific movements in pinan three, and then do the second specific set of movements from pinan four, then the third set of specific movements from pinan five...and so on.
The first item you will probably learn is that these pieces of art don't always fit together in a pleasing fashion. So, what can you do to make them fit together? How can you adjust the geometry of the arms, and rework the footwork, so that the movements fit together and even make sense?
Another thing you are going to learn is that your art has lost functionality. Doing the blocks in different pattern would never fit a normal attack. So tweak your movements until they do fit a normal attack, and explore not normal attacks, and so on.
Another thing you will find is the impulse to do different things. Simply, you are going to start to create. Your mind is going to start exploring channels that normally would have been closed to you.
AsI said in the first paragraph, art is the fact of creation. Honestly, people should drill you to death, help you make every movement your own, instill art in you. But, even more honestly, if you don't start taking the movements apart and reconfiguring them, all that drilling is going to be about as good as a death knell.
The funny thing is that most instructors frown on the act of creating anything new. The most popular method of teaching is to have the student copycat, exactly and without deviation, what the teacher says and does. But a fight is always new and original, and requires creativity to win.
Thus, if you are going to win a fight, it behooves you to learn how to be creative. Interestingly, nobody has ever written a course or book on how to be creative. Isn't that interesting, a whole art that has no creativity in it?
To be creative one has to break apart the current method of teaching one is engaged in. Thus, one method for being creative would be to simply take the moves of the forms and interchange them. Take a sequence from classical karate, say the first set of specific movements in pinan three, and then do the second specific set of movements from pinan four, then the third set of specific movements from pinan five...and so on.
The first item you will probably learn is that these pieces of art don't always fit together in a pleasing fashion. So, what can you do to make them fit together? How can you adjust the geometry of the arms, and rework the footwork, so that the movements fit together and even make sense?
Another thing you are going to learn is that your art has lost functionality. Doing the blocks in different pattern would never fit a normal attack. So tweak your movements until they do fit a normal attack, and explore not normal attacks, and so on.
Another thing you will find is the impulse to do different things. Simply, you are going to start to create. Your mind is going to start exploring channels that normally would have been closed to you.
AsI said in the first paragraph, art is the fact of creation. Honestly, people should drill you to death, help you make every movement your own, instill art in you. But, even more honestly, if you don't start taking the movements apart and reconfiguring them, all that drilling is going to be about as good as a death knell.
About the Author:
Al Case has studied the martial arts for forty years. You can find out How to Create Your Own Art at Monster Martial Arts.
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