Better and worse martial art
In the introduction I wrote that my goal in this blog is to clear up the prejudice related to aikido. I am not trying to say which martial art is better… I started differentiating Aikido and Real “aikido” so that the readers know what I am talking about. Better or worse martial art… I think that is nonsense. One of our famous taekwondo masters said in one occasion: “… When someone starts to talk about better or worse martial arts you can immediately see that he/she doesn’t know much about it…”
While I was training aikido I realized that it is a martial art which is comprehensive, and I understood the difference between a martial art and a combat sport. I also saw what the form of a given martial art means, how should be recognized its “realistic” characteristics, whether there is any use of it and what kind of usage can be found in it, if there is any of spirituality in it and what kind and so on. I intend to write about all those things, but first I want to lay some sound foundations and some guide lines which will keep me from making new prejudice and to protect me from being misunderstood as much as possible.
Mr. Vracarevic (although not just he) and his martial art can take the credit for the wrong information on aikido which circulate in our country, and that is why they are mentioned here. What he has used in promoting “Real aikido” created bad picture of what aikido really is.
Why was the best card in his propaganda saying how much better was his martial art than the authentic aikido, and why did he have the need to devalue the second, you’ll have to find out on your own, I will not occupy myself with it (at least not in this text)…
I will dedicate the next text to traditional aikido, since in one of the comments to the previous text there was a question about it, and I will partially refer to that comment now: yes I think that turbo folk is “bad” music, but I certainly don’t think that there is anything wrong in some people listening to that music. On the contrary I think that it is much better than to pretend that they like jazz.