Street Fighting Moves – Do You Know the Difference Between a Martial Art and a Martial Science?

Do you know the difference between a martial art and a martial science? This a totally revolutionary concept, understanding it, will help you to make the best choice in how you train and where you train.

We have all heard of and are familiar with the concept of a martial art, but how many of us have heard of and are familiar with the concept of a martial science? Let us start with a few basic definitions before we examine the differences.

* Martial Art – A old concept which encompasses what you know as your traditional martial arts. We are talking about all of your ancient systems such as karate, kung fu, taekwondo or hapkido.

* Martial Science – A relatively new concept which encompasses essentially what is called reality-based scenario street fighting.

The Key Differences Between A Martial Art and a Martial Science: (For brevity, we will call Martial Art, MA and Martial Science, MS)

Key Difference #1 – MA Strives for Perfection of Execution – With MA, it is more important how you do a technique, that is, its look, its grace and its beauty than rather or not it is ultimately the most effective technique.

Key Difference #2 – MS Strives for The Effectiveness of The Technique – It does not matter how pretty or graceful a technique is executed. Ultimately, the most important aspect is how effective or realistic the technique is, that is, will it work on the streets?

Key Difference #3 – MA Is Based On What Is Supposed To Work – Many of the techniques and approaches are so old, outdated, ancient and antiquated that many of them have no place in modern-day self protection, yet MA continues to espouse and teach these techniques. They are supposed to work today just because they worked 5000 years ago.

Key Difference #4 – MS Is Based On What Has Been Validated (Proven) To Work – MS uses many training methods that involves the validation of a technique. For example, a RBF instructor will dip the tip of a plastic knife in red dye (to resemble blood). If a knife technique is executed and the RBF student gets red dye on him, guess what, his technique didn’t work. He theoretically “got cut”. This is called validation of technique, very common in RBF training and not common in traditional MA training.

Key Difference #5 – MA Strives To Maintain A Style and A Tradition – MA at times appears to be obsessed with all of their Grand Masters who lived in ancient China, during the Ming Dynasty and how they lived, trained, ate and dressed.

Key Difference #6 – MS Strives To Maintain The Survival of the Individual – MS could care less about the tradition, history, origin or romance of a fighting technique. In RBF, it is not about what style – it’s about what works!