Even after decades of training I still like to see other martial arts & their characteristics.
Tell me something peculiar or unusual about your martial art.
Here's some oddities with mine


1. I do a style of Ju Jutsu where our curriculum only has a 5 minute lesson on blocks using Jo ( short staff) which are then discarded in the 6th minute for deflections & the beginning of other skills .


2. We also train against mob attacks, which was easier when we had the numbers in the school. I don't think a lot of styles train against multiple attackers. Does yours ?


3. Sho Dan gradings have always been 24 hours, dawn till dawn.

4. We don't really train in techniques or Kata. We teach principles & practice drills based on them. Neither 2 nor 200 attacks are the same so we try to teach students to act on the fly rather than have a predermined routine. Yes it is harder & slower to learn this way but we find results are exponential months or years down the line.


I think this could become an interesting discussion & welcome the views of master & student alike.