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 Most
martial arts dojos in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
area either emphasize competition/sparring, or offer “traditional”
training. Competition/sparring appears to offer a measure
of quality. This is why many business-oriented studios emphasize
it – It helps sales and makes students feel like they
are learning and doing well. However, this is often an illusion.
The very thing that is making students feel they are doing well
is limiting their long-term potential (and possibly health),
and giving them an incorrect measuring stick for understanding
the potentially fathomless depths of martial arts training.
While sparring can be a useful training tool for higher
ranked students under the right circumstances, emphasis on it,
and particularly using sparring competition as a goal of training,
has many negative effects which severely limit training quality.
Part of what karate training does is teach the body a way to
react that is not built-in, or innate. Sparring competition,
instead of cultivating a highly effective, non-innate way to
react in a self-defense situation, accentuates less effective,
mostly innate skills and develops downright dangerous habits
for self-defense. These include training only to react when
ready, concentrating on only a single opponent, and relying
only on punching and kicking or only on grappling depending
on the martial arts style. Further, having competition as the
goal often results in teachers, students and the style itself
not looking out for the long-term health of the students.
| Our
style has a direct lineage and heritage that dates back
several hundred years, and has been developed by masters
who used it to defend themselves against individuals and
groups, armed and unarmed... |
At East-West Karate, we do not
train for competition or for sparring (although sparring
is used occasionally in our high rank training). We instead
train in a living martial art (Yamashita-Ha Kobayashi Shorin-Ryu)
that has been developed with three purposes in mind: Self-Defense,
Longevity/Health, and Life Improvement. Our style has
a direct lineage and heritage that dates back hundreds of years,
and has been developed by masters who used it to defend themselves
against individuals and groups, armed and unarmed, and who lived
fruitful, healthy fives well into their 80’s and beyond.
This art has been passed down from master to master, generation
to generation,
| Our
art encompasses much more than how to “win”
at sparring, and benefits from generations more knowledge
than one particular individual who has won a “World
Championship” |
with each subsequent master adding to the knowledge of the former
masters. Our art encompasses much more than how to “win”
at sparring, and benefits from generations more knowledge than
one particular individual who has won a “Championship”.
It contains and emphasizes those things needed to protect and
improve your life, passed down by those who have personally
benefited from the same things and led long, fruitful lives.
At East-West Karate, you can experience these benefits for yourself.
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