I can remember when there were very, very few
books on the martial arts. At that time the karate magazines and their letters
pages were more like the internet.
At that time karate was what your instructor told
you karate was. Then I began to additionally train with very, very skilled
others and a different vision emerged.
Then video tape became available, and selling
karate video tapes began. I remember when Goju folks talked mysteriously about
Superimpe but never showed it. Then a video version was sold by Panther and I
got one, which led to a small disillusionment for me. It was not what my
imagination assumed it might me. Not it wasn’t a fine form, but I had imagined
something else (I guess after learning a ton of Northern Chinese forms I thought it would be something different than it was.)
Then PCs and email, where you actually wrote
to each other, just like letters.
Then the internet, and YahooGroups, I began on
the getting between Pat McCarthy and Jim Keenan of the original Isshinryu list,
they were shouting about a translation/mis-translation on the Bubishi (then
new) McCarthy the author, Jim a Translator Isshinryuy/Tai Chi/Baqua/Krav Maga
stylist, I got involved shouting it was wrong for seniors to behave so in
public. Of course I had no idea what discussion on the internet was like.
Later I joined the Cyberdojo on YahooGroups,
Again in 2000 Patrick McCarthy was having a heated discussion with George
Donahue, and George handed him his head as he didn’t realize George was raised
in Japan/Okinawa, and was trained by the Kashiba brothers among others.
I just found that lengthy discussion (I kept
the hard copy) and so different the discussion in degree from what Facebook is
today.
Things kept changing from YahooGroup
discussions, to dvd’s, to YahooGroups, to Facebook. Some things are better,
There is far less discussion in depth, more discussion light. Less chance where
people have a chance to grow what they understand.
With all the bells and whistles today, it is
also extremely less.
No comments:
Post a Comment