Traditional Martial Arts
Channel: Goju Ryu Philosopher
Date: 03/04/2021

This is it, the moment we've all been waiting for, my obligatory "what is a traditional martial art" video. As it turns out, a traditional martial art is a very tricky thing to define, and it took me 27 whole minutes, not to mention a lot of weird turns of phrase. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all of the many other martial arts YouTubers who have covered this topic before me, whose videos are listed further down in the sources. (Also, I included Yagi Akihito Sensei in the thumbnail specifically because he both scares and inspires me)


Please let me know what you think about my definition of a traditional martial art is, and why I'm completely wrong. Also, feel free to cancel me for saying "Oss!" in this video over and over and over again. I deserve it.


Chapter Timecodes
00:00 Introduction and Why I'm Doing This
03:32 Covered Ground
10:28 Lineage and why that doesn't work either
16:30 Finally the actual definition
24:11 Outro and final thoughts


Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pdXQMSFi7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfx_0Kczmbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xxYE60N--o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Dv4127bOw


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1840848
Also a few books and articles that I can't be bothered to write down but I reference them in the video so you'll know when you here them. They're all also cited in other videos so go check those out if you actually read the sources.