WHAT and HOW as WELL as WHY THINGS HAPPEN IN MARTIAL ARTS SBN Ramón Navarro

WHAT AND HOW AS WELL AS WHY THINGS HAPPEN IN MARTIAL ARTS

Sbn Ramón Navarro

Hi everyone. I greet you from the Republic of Panama. I have been a Song Moo HapKiDo teacher since February 1977, that is, it has been many years since I have experience in this art, but before this time I was an assistant instructor of SabomNim Prospero Manuel Ellis (RIP) who is the father of TangSooDo in my country. Since the time my Master or SabomNim Park SongIL is KwanjangNim of his own style the Song Moo Kwan of the Korean martial art of self-defense known as HapKiDo. Before the pandemic started, I talked to my teacher about not wanting to rank up and he told me I should, but twice ago I told him I wasn't interested at the time. He told me that he was sad because for nearly 50 years in Panama none of us had helped him grow his HapKiDo and I assured him that I would take care of it and the pandemic arrived.

The internet, that is, virtuality, has made changes in the world and martial arts have benefited from this and from things that have been achieved, I started to form the International Song Moo HapKiDo Federation, offering virtual seminars from which instructors, teachers have joined and We are doing classes one day a week, on Saturdays at 3pm and another group on Sundays at 10am Panama time. Martial artists from Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Argentina have been incorporated so we are expanding and anyone who reads this comment and is interested can talk to me on my WhatsApp +507 67808222.

There is martial artist and martialists. Well, I don't know the difference, but martialists sounds like a plural to me. The truth as it is told it´s not as important as what each one does in the martial art that they train and teach. I have seen that every martial art has a format that by following it, the base is learned correctly after it has a good root, but I have also seen that there are instructors or teachers who mix the teaching and it seems to me that this way the learning is distorted, what does They also fail to teach some things that need to be learned at the right time, which is called method development. Many today want to create a club of black belts and from the white belt they go up in rank, even if they are not ready, which deceives all students such as instructors or teachers who are not upright in martiality.

I think we all have the controlled combat training, that is, when practicing combat, one must have certainty regarding the possibility of accidents happening. A martial school or Academy is not the street and there are several parts that make up each martial art and the competitions or tournaments in many martial art schools focus more on practicing this one of the segments that make up their martial art and neglect the practice of the forms, the discipline and the respect between companions and instructors.

There is nothing wrong in proceeding to teach as it should be, that is, calmly without giving exams so quickly or even with the necessary time to students who are not really prepared. There are students who learn what they are taught quickly and those who learn it normally over time, those who learn it slower than the others, just as there are those who find it easy to do what they learn as well as those who learn it normally and those who have it hard to learn or master. This indicates that the first three are three types and also three classes of students and there may be a mixture of these. The truth is not only to get the most out of these students, but also as teachers to cause their students to get the most out of their learning.

There are also masters or so-called masters who are under 40 years of age and are of high ranks such as 7th, 8th to 9th Dans in three or four martial arts and even worse, over 50 years of age and are noted to be out of condition with 10th They give in one or two martial arts that they have not invented or created but 8th or 9th in several others when in one life they do not manage to totally master the martial art that one with which they began to learn or well that martial art that they want be your forte and be the one you want to impart to the generations that follow.

There are ways or modes in which these individuals use to move from ranks and that is usually moving from one federation or organization to another. They stay there for a couple of years and after they receive a new rank, they go to another one and in another couple of years they will be raised in rank. We all know that what happens here is that in addition to having different teachers who give them certificates, it causes the numbers to not match. In that way? The truth is that they lie to many people with the fact that if you reach the first Dan when you are two or three years in that rank, 'you can go on to the 2nd Dan; that when he reaches the date of three or four years, he can go up to 3rd Dan and so on up in Black Belt degrees. This procedure is not true since one can take a short time to pass the rank at the beginning and the closer to the black belt the student is, the longer it should take to make his next exam and already in the Dan grades it is not that with a minimum time he passes to the next Dan grade because that is an option for students who deserve to pass the rank before the time would be said to be necessary and be ready. First you have to comply with certain rules, although in reality they are not part of the regulations of that school or style of martial art and even the normal thing is that they are several years mora than the number of Dan grade that student has for example 5th Dan, and they pass to 6th Dan after having 5 years in that Dan rank which is not true or the right process.

In addition, whoever they come together with a buddy from other martialists and unite to form an organization among themselves and give degrees or rank being in different arts or styles of a martial art. You can imagine that for example I will say like this: Being myself a high degree in HapKiDo and as I or you have a Dan degree in TangSooDo, I formed my own organization and rank myself in TSD through you, but as a teacher of HKD and vice versa I also

incorporate other arts or styles arts martial and I give them a rank in their style or martial art and it is how many are doing now a days and worst of all is that they deceive other people, more so those who are beginners. Worse if they already have degrees that they give to others and follow this path of self-deception by seeking invalid recognition since their degrees are not really formally recognized.

This is not OK. I think that if I keep writing down more examples of the things that are happening worldwide, I will not finish writing and in this article, it is not the intention, but rather that we know that this is happening and to those who do not know it, due to some naivety, to open their eyes, to say the truth is that it is very difficult to have control of this situations.

I leave it for you there and I suggest you be formal in your martial path since this is a personal path and nothing like being upright, disciplined as well as honest and loyal. Loyal to his teacher and his martial art, but more than anything to his students being a good example. This is how a Master does whether he is told as title of Shifu, Sensei, SabomNim or however that title is in the martial art that person is from and make it count. That way no one can talk bad about you.

I, HapKiDo SabomNim Ramon Navarro 6th Dan thanks to my Grand Master the KwanjangNim: Park, SongIL; I am the technical director of the International Song Moo HapKiDo Federation expanding this HapKiDo system in the American continent or were ever people want to participate in this growth. I do not have all the answers nor do I know everything, but I do not believe in the falsehood in which we realize what is happening and hopefully someone will provide a way to stop this. Mine is that I am sure that each art, for example, if it is in Karate, is from Japan as a base and among them they could do something to expose or even stop these individuals or groups that are not exactly real, just as they can be from Korean styles and among themselves, they know who is who to do something about it.