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Why would I consider social media, blogging and facebook and others, a necessary tool for self-protection karate? It is a simple answer really, can you imagine what that would be? Think as you already do, as a creative endeavor and then consider possible answers. Visualize how you enhance, build, expand and create your methodologies that will provide you the best, most effective and appropriate methods necessary to avoid, escape-n-evade and then act appropriately when all else fails to stop the conflict with its inherent violence, what comes to mind because as experienced martial artists who use those skills for self-protection the answer should simply float to the top, like cream in a milk bottle, and glare out at you, now!
Survival of self and others, those within our group and our clan and our tribe, who depend on one another to achieve success in that survival all do so according to the exchange of experiences, understandings and the very skills and tools that resulted in those objectives. That only happens when we get together and exchange our assumptions, beliefs, values, habits, expectations, self-image, and experience as to beliefs and realities now, from the past and created for the future.
One small obstacle that one must overcome in small close-knit groups, etc., is complacency, biases and the types of dissonances that hinder that creative skill and spirit. Creativity is one of those descriptive terms/words I use to explain the art of spirit as achieved through the practices and life-style of martial arts because it is creativity that makes it all work, i.e., in the dojo, at seminars, in competitive practices and it reality-base adrenal models of defense and protection efforts.
Now, just imagine if you will that you are not connected to very single soul in our Earthly Universe all capable of contributing to the data-pool that is martial arts! Just imagine regardless of all restrictions, biases, dissonances that filter that data-stream of knowledge, understanding and experience, you get creativity BECAUSE now your data-mining is not restricted or filtered? You are now in a position to access unlimited information that you can then exchange, discuss, test and implement as needed without interference from anyone or anything as long as it remains legal, socially uninhibited and appropriate to what your objectives and goals are... all self-governed and self-controlled accordingly.
As long as you don't self restrict the incoming content according to our own assumptions, beliefs, values, habits, expectations, self-image, and experience so that it evolves according to the needs and effects of the present moment and the current environment along with its laws, restrictions and mandates you have an unlimited stream of potential.
No where in any time past has this potential and opportunity been available when it is actually needed most, you just have to open-mindedly data-mine the wheat from any chaff to reach the gold that lines the cloud to achieve success and mastery, isn't that what you envision as your path when you enter the dojo?
Our sources and communications channels are the yin/yang of such efforts because to achieve this objective it must remain open, open-ended and open-minded so that we can find the gems that provide us our best efforts and achievements both personal and socially so make good use of it and don’t hinder its efforts through bias, egoistic feelings and our cognizant dissonances, etc.
Call it, “Open Source Study, Training and Practice of Martial Arts Media.”
Charles James
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