Martial Arts teaching: From the conditional principles to the situational groups

Abstract

This study sought to classify and identify common principles in the Martial Arts teaching. For that, we used semi structured interviews, with teachers and masters in different modalities. After the Contend Analysis of the data we realized that the Martial Arts have conditional principles (intentional contact, attack/defense fusion, opponent/target, unpredictability and rules) determinant for the understanding and reading of any combat’s internal dynamic. So we could classify the Martial Arts based on common and transferable denominators (situational groups) which can be taught before the specialized practice, looking forward to the students global development, not only the isolated repetition of the technical moves.