Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 02:07:40 -0700 (PDT) From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 9 #265 - 2 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.8 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Sender: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net List-Help: List-Post: X-Subscribed-Address: rterry@idiom.com List-Subscribe: List-Id: The Internet's premier discussion forum on Korean Martial Arts. 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Re: Different ways (Laurie S.) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Ray Terry To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net (The_Dojang), eskrima@martialartsresource.net (Eskrima), policedo@martialartsresource.net (Policedo) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [The_Dojang] Intl Hopology Society Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net fyi, http://www.hopology.com "... Hoplology: the history of arms and armour, their connection and their transitions, plays the most important part in the annals of the world." Burton, Sir Richard F. 1884 The Book of the Sword. London: Chatto and Windus, p. 1. IHS MISSION The IHS exists to study the evolution and development of human combative behavior. This study encompasses the segment of human culture concerned with weapons, armor, combative accouterments and fighting systems, in regard to their technical characteristics and the ways in which they interact with the economic, political, social and religious institutions of human societies. IHS PROFILE The IHS is an independent, not-for-profit organization. It offers its services to scholars, universities, museums, collectors, private and governmental organizations, writers and publishers around the world. Current activities of the IHS include field research trips for the collection of hoplological data, the establishment of a library facility where such data can be made available to researchers and an ongoing development of the study of hoplology. The data produced by the IHS is concentrated in the following areas: * Technological Hoplology The study of environmental factors, materials and production processes and their relationship to the development of weapons, armor and combative accouterments. * Functional Hoplology The study of the structure and organization of combative systems including the analysis and classification of combative systems, the observation off training patters and their relationship to real and idealized applications and investigations into the reciprocal relationship between weapons and combative systems. * Behavioral Hoplology The study of the psychological and physiological factors inherent in man's combativeness and his development of combative capabilities including the variables that influence the evolution of combative systems. This covers the socio-cultural roles and effects of weapons and combative systems on the individual and collective social organization. This area of research includes the identification and description of man's belief systems and their corresponding social and institutional import. The analysis of expression of behavior (internal and external) in relation to weapons and combative[s] systems and the study of linguistic relationships in the evolution of combative culture are also included in this area of study. The IHS, the society's journal, HOPLOS, the IHS Newsletter and the International Hoplological Research Center (IHRC) are under the aegis of the its Director, the IHS Board of Directors and Officers and the IHS Advisory Committee, the members of which have international prestige in hoplology, arms and armor studies, modern military and police studies, and various related academic disciplines. IHS History Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) began to organize hoplology as a body of knowledge with terms, concepts and a methodology uniquely its own. He devoted much of his life to the development of another discipline through which to view the evolutionary growth of social man and his cultural contrivances - hoplology. Hoplology, as an organized, academic disciple remained dormant from the time of Sir Richard until the late 1950's when it reemerged under the guidance of the founder of the International Hoplological Research Center, Major Donn F Draeger (USMC Ret.) (1922-1982). Draeger, after many years in the Pacific Basin, took up permanent residence in Japan in the mid-1950's and became thoroughly occupied with the study and practice of Japanese martial and related disciplines. Draeger gained membership to Japan's oldest cultural organization for the study and preservation of classical martial arts and ways, the Nihon Kobudo Shinkokai. Draeger founded the International Research Section (IRS) of the Nihon Kobudo Shinkokai to facilitate non-Japanese persons gaining access to study and conduct research within the Japanese martial ethos. By the early 1960's this Section had conducted an ongoing series of investigations in Japan and produced a sizable amount of data primarily relevant to Japan. Draeger soon changed the title to the International Hoplological Research Center, and modified the activities of the organization to include a more international scope. Pioneer field workers widened the scope of the organization's activities and several field expeditions were made into Australia and the Indonesian Archipelago. By the 1970's, the organization's operations were expanded into the Greater Malay Archipelago and the broader Pacific Basin. Draeger spent considerable time at the East-West Center and the University of Hawaii Manoa, lecturing, developing professional contacts between the IHRC and scholars in various field, and performing federally funded research. Draeger remained director of the IHRC in Tokyo until his death in l982. Since 1983, the functions of the IHRC (renamed the International Hoplology Society in 1986 and incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in Hawaii in 1992) and all of its activities have continued under Hunter B Armstrong, Director of the IHS, David A Hall, Ph.D., Coordinator of the Advisory Committee, and the members of the Board of Directors. --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "Laurie S." To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 20:10:44 -0400 Subject: [The_Dojang] Re: Different ways Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Ray wrote: Some things are black and white, but some things are also grayscale (in my computer-nerd speak). There isn't always one Best way, there are often different ways. There are differences in sparring, from TKD's approach to Muay Thai's to TSD's to Judo's to the UFC's to ... There are differences in how to run/teach a class or a training session, from Muay Thai's gym approach to TKD's rigid military approach to Aikido's less rigid non-military approach. There are also differences in how techniques are viewed, from Hapkido's bust-em-up approach to Aikido's see-it-from-your-attacker's view approach. There are even differences in grappling, from Karate-do's standup grappling to Sumo's grappling to submission to Sambo to Judo to Taekkyon. As I have boringly stated above, I do have my own prefs. But I also feel it is of great interest to look at things from different perspectives as one will frequently encounter 'a way' (Do?) that had previously never entered the mind.>>>> I totally agree, Ray :o) I kept most of your post just in case someone missed it. You made a lot of sense, and spoke the truth :o) Laurie tellow belt TKD (5th gup TSD) _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang http://the-dojang.net It's a great day for Taekwondo! Support the USTU by joining today. US Taekwondo Union, 1 Olympic Plaza, Ste 104C, Colorado Spgs, CO 80909 719-866-4632 FAX 719-866-4642 ustutkd1@aol.com http://www.ustu.org Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply. Remember 9-11! End of The_Dojang Digest