Our "System."

When you read my posts you find I refer to martial arts as martial systems simply because of how I relate them to the FPofMS, i.e. fundamental principles of martial systems. This is my way of discussing those principles expounded by the book, "The Book of Martial Power: The Universal Guide to the Combative Arts," by Steven J. Pearlman.

Google Dictionary defines "system" as "A set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method; A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole; Orderliness; method, etc.

Generally humans understand instinctively that a system is the idea that every system will be "systematic"; that it will be orderly, and that it will be governed by rules which can be both written and implied. This would fit the idea of a martial system or systems because the martial arts, like karate, are systematic in practice, training, and teaching where there is an order, a pattern, and rhythms that are governed by both human rules and rules of the Universe [think of the principles here as well].

The method of a martial systems is a particular procedure to reach an end goal or goals. The system of marital practice is comprised of said rules that are also used to classify, break apart, measure techniques and their application as to individual usage. Martial systems are similar to music as shown in this metaphor, i.e. a set of staves in a musical score joined by a brace, a musical system.

Martial Systems are a set or arrangement of things, i.e. principles, basics, kata, kumite, etc., that are related and connected to form a "unit or whole-[hearted]."

Synonyms for system, "method, order, scheme, process, etc." Kata have an order. The kata embusen also provides and pattern and order to the practice and application. MA has an overall scheme or systematic arrangement that promotes optimal learning and application through the kata. The process in MA is the arrangement of the system to begin with fundamentals and then build gradually until the entire system is utilized by the individual.

Take over, go on and provide your additions to the "system." Martial Systems is an elaborate and systematic plan of "action!"