My trainer is teaching me balintawak, but really its a cross of a lot of things, he really loves learning martial arts and i can see hes spent years and years and years on it. His holidays is literally going to countries to learn and try their martial arts really.

But unlike other classes he teaches me in the park (its 1:1 lessons as he stopped classes during covid).

But it got me thinking, what makes a trainer “a professional”. Both personally and legally.

I know some areas like boxing or karate they likely have some sort of foundation/club/organisation maybe you can register too?

I guess this is coming up because im learning weapons training now, and we can carry training weapons if there is good rrason too (like for training) but would a police officer see a guy in a park and agree hes a trainer. And to add to that, should i believe him?

I cant deny though, my stickfighting, swordfiighting, fist fighting and grapple work has extraordinarily increased. So i cant deny there is skill there and i am learning.

So i guess what makes someone a professional martial artist teacher? How do you tell compared to someone whose just sat on youtube too much. And should i be worried?

  • trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Thanks for this, i find it interesting because im largely learning filipino martial arts, it seems very political. Especially as a lineage seems quite disputed. Even still there is talk about “how ours works because the guy went to jail for killing someone etc etc”.

    I think its more important then i expected. And when i think about it, creates an interesting point because part of yhe reason im learning filipino martial arts is because im part filipino and want to understand that side a bit better.