Schadenfreude
Lifer
- If a martial arts refer to themselves as "external" or "internal", it is referring, in common vernacular, to the way they generate power.
- Most common martial arts styles taught are external styles.
- If they refer to themselves as "circular" or "linear", then it's referring to the type of motion they use (it's impossible to have a completely linear style, for example, but the labels are based on general method of moverment).
- "Soft" and "hard" is a distinction to describe the way a style receives "antagonistic force".
- "Soft" styles tend to be generalized with circular-internal, and "Hard" with linear-external, but it's not necessarily the case.
- All method of movement can be seen by two aspects: structure (skeletal and muscular) and direction of force (momentum).
- The basic ranges of attack, five in all, can be seens as: weapons - kicks - punches - elbows/knees - grappling.
- For females, all of this information is needless.
- Most common martial arts styles taught are external styles.
- If they refer to themselves as "circular" or "linear", then it's referring to the type of motion they use (it's impossible to have a completely linear style, for example, but the labels are based on general method of moverment).
- "Soft" and "hard" is a distinction to describe the way a style receives "antagonistic force".
- "Soft" styles tend to be generalized with circular-internal, and "Hard" with linear-external, but it's not necessarily the case.
- All method of movement can be seen by two aspects: structure (skeletal and muscular) and direction of force (momentum).
- The basic ranges of attack, five in all, can be seens as: weapons - kicks - punches - elbows/knees - grappling.
- For females, all of this information is needless.
