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Originally Posted by Dialhot
.....I don't know if martial arts need that.
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No, for sure not.
(Jackie Chan...
Isn't he an actor?. It would be more like a circus, isn't it?)
I don't know what's the intention of this entertainment then (apart from the obvious economical side). It sometimes is a way to show the estethical part of martial arts, and some people then decide to test it.
My colleagues also did demonstration from time to time. It wasn't meant to win championships, or to improve their skills, or to try to find their inner harmony...
of course not. It was a way to show other people that didn't know their disciplines. Then, more people attended the dojo.
Of course, there was the bad side, as some people went there with strange ideas. But as time passed, only people really interested in all what martial arts mean, kept on going to the dojo.
And yes, they were planning to go to Japan, but it was a little expensive... and it seems that it isn't as it used to be related to learning martial arts there.