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Originally Posted by Shamou  I was in Karate for seven years and I was awarded a black belt... so, I feel that I know something about it...
The martial arts are about self-defense... |
Are they necessarily? Whatever the arts' origins, the case is that as they are practiced today, some martial arts are about civilian self-defense, others are about combatives, others about performance, others about sportive practice, others about spiritual discipline, and yet others are about who knows what.
I don't want to hijack this into a "What constitutes a martial art?" discussion, though, so I'll stop here on this part.
I don't see why it's a problem if he wants to buy some Thai-Bow videos or whatever and dance to them day and night. The question again is, does what he would likely achieve by doing that match up to whatever it is that his intended training goals are? If not, then he needs to change his intended training methods.