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Hybrid KickboxingTM is a martial arts program designed to improve a practitioners attributes. These attributes can be broken down into these five categories; physical, technical, tactical, psychological, and self-expression. The last one can not be taught. It must be experienced. Each stage in the attribute process prepares you for the next attribute.


Physical attributes development is what sports scientist refers to as "bio-motor abilities". Bio-motor abilities consist of the following; strength, power, speed, balance, flexibility, agility, endurance and coordination.


The technical attributes development or skill development process develope's form in technique. An example would be practicing a side kick stationary, then in a fluid motion, then with some form of resistance.


Tactical attributes deal with the application of technique in a combative setting such as sparring, competion or in a real fight. Psychological attributes refers to the fight or flight syndrome or how you will respond in a fight.

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The hardest thing about martial arts instruction is to guide your student in the form of instruction. This is because you tend to focus on your strengths rather than the student. With the right guidance I believe the student will achieve greater heights.


All instruction is a process of learning and evaluation. The teacher learns from the student just as the student learns from the teacher. This is where the foundation, the core the self discovery truly takes place. Remember, you can't create something from nothing. All styles of martial arts today are eclectic by nature.


Hybrid KickboxingTM has an educational component to help our students understand martial arts from other styles and the value of history. You must know yourself, know your enemy and were your techniques came from and why. We use drills and sparring in the place of forms.

 

Eclecticism was first recorded to have been practiced by a group of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers who attached themselves to no real system, but selected from existing philosophical beliefs those doctrines that seemed most reasonable to them. Out of this collected material they constructed their new system of philosophy. The term comes from the Greek "ἐκλεκτικός" (eklektikos), literally "choosing the best".

 

All martial arts are eclectic by nature. If you research history of martial arts, you will see that all the ancient as well as modern martial artist  were influenced by other arts or instructors. In fact most of them did alot of traveling or were under some sort of military control that caused them to alter the arts. Virtually all technique have been borrow from a wide variety of other martial arts and then eventually modified. The martial art system developed by Bruce Lee©, called Jeetkunedo, is classified as an eclectic system. It favors researching and borrowing freely from western and eastern philosophy and other systems within a free floating framework. Do not confuse this with having no framework or core principle to adhere to such as many have done. This core framework, consist of two sides, the philosophical and the technical. The philosophical framework covers simplicity, directness and economy of motion. The technical framework, consist mainly of fencing and western boxing with various other influences.

 

As with other disciplines that incorporate eclecticism, Jeetkunedo's philosophy does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions or conclusions, but encourages students to learn what is useful for themselves within the core framework of Jeetkunedo. There is also Hapkido, a Korean martial art composed of throws, pressure points, and kicks, many taken from Chinese Chin Na, Shaolin (or more generally, Chinese) Eagle Claw kung fu, Japanese Judo, and Taekwondo (Korean). Taekwondo is also an eclectic art.

 

Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.


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