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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3936078" data-attributes="member: 39593">In my disdain I was imprecise and joined two arguments that should have been separated.However, what I was attempting to say is that martial arts do not rely on any universal functionality.  They aren't thrown together but they also aren't part of a unified pseudo-scientific model.  Martial arts styles are formed through practice and then once formed they need a name and someone comes along and slaps a name on it since it needs one now.  That name may have varying allusions or connotations based on who did the naming.  The wizard at least for past editions has been metaphysical science.  They could not do what they do without understanding the universal framework of magic as a force.  Which like science requires that they work from the underlying force up through research to create their spell effects.  Central to their art is a singular framework for the metaphysical nature of the power they are manipulating, their names should reflect this underlying theoretical nature.  Not the trail and error practice (even if directed there is no single underlying theoretical basis) of martial arts.EDIT:  Also none of the martial arts practiced today can successfully trace their practice more than two to three hundred years in the current form.  Despite the "history" Asian martial arts claim they are actually mere successors to those older techniques.  Related? In some cases yes in others no, but the techniques are fairly new and have leveraged off the history of older no longer practised techniques to take on the mantle of respect implied with antiquity.  For example kendo as practiced today has a distinctly limited resemblance to the historical techniques it claims to represent.  Or to use a European example modern sport fencing has NO resemblance to the European bladework disciplines of earlier times</blockquote>

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