Methodologies are just like Martial Arts Types - you have so many varieties to choose from Boxing, TKD, Judo, Muay Thai
But in a real fight, you hit with whatever you can grab onto :)
But in a real fight, you hit with whatever you can grab onto :)
"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."
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The key it seems, is the team agreeing there's going to be a punch in the mouth, accept that, stick together (i.e., don't panic), find a solution and continue (til the next painful punch). The plan can change, the process for considering change should not.
The arc of my point is that the methodology matters (kinda), but more importantly it's that everyone agrees to what the process is and sticks to it. Without such dedication and consistency the methodology doesn't matter, you're gonna come up short.
Is agile the Brazilian jiu-jitsu of software development?
Agile is the franchise karate chain from the 80s: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzh9koy7b1E
Maybe the metaphor still works.
It was the same as Ronda Rousey dominating women's matches when that section of the UFC started up. It doesn't mean that Judo is "better" than the other styles, the other competitors simply didn't know what to do with it, and now they do.
It certainly has parallels to trendy new software engineering styles "dominating" the field, though I'm not sure they lead to any more real "victories" compared to actual combat. Just because the time runs out on a software project doesn't mean that anybody actually won.
Wrapping your legs around your opponent's waist and rolling around on the ground for minutes ceases to be a good idea the second you leave the ring. While breaking fingers, ribs, poking eyes, punching throats and kicking knees and groins suddenly become viable options. In most cases; the sooner you can get the hell out of there the better, because the risk of getting into trouble increases fast in a street fight.
There's plenty of Bullshit Do out there, no doubt. But there is also plenty of useful knowledge and experienced teachers that you miss if you assume that everyone who came before you was a complete idiot.
Many martial arts were honed into more or less perfection over hundreds of years by people just as intelligent as you and me, but with generations of experience from actual mortal combat. Living another day is a pretty good motivation for training and evolving.
Much of that is still around, but it's not being marketed. Because it's not what most people are looking for, it's too real and ego-killing. Because it's barely allowed; you can't spar out in the open with real knives or swords for example, you'll end up in a cell before you know what happened. And because it's been Disneyfied, by people like Jack Mace and Master Wong.
Once you've spent tens of years really training martial arts, as opposed to sports or pretending in silly uniforms; there's not going to be much to prove any more. If there is, you're doing it wrong. I prefer not fighting, people get hurt best case. So I can't really show you anything that looks like MMA, because that's just not how we train. And we don't do competitions; because there are no winners; just two banged up idiots, one happy and one sad. But for whatever it's worth this is me with a private student 3 years ago:
If you want to learn anything, you definitely need to spar; but sparring is not a competition, no one is actually trying to hurt anyone. The more experienced your partner is, the harder you can go without risking injury.
TKD suffers from the same sports virus as MMA if you ask me; just a different, less violent and more exotic flavor.
There are different techniques for different situations. Throat punch, eye gouging are last resort techniques.
I don’t know anyone that would sign up to “debunk” these, while there are plenty that’ll happily do some MMA sparring.
https://www.mmamania.com/2018/12/29/18160674/ufc-232-full-fi...
Works in the ring. Works outside of the ring.
BJJ isn't defined by rolling around on the ground for minutes, it's defined by the importance of training against resisting opponents safely, which most traditional martial arts cannot or are not willing to do.
Not really. BJJ was very successful in the early days of what we now call MMA because everyone was playing a new sport with new rules and those rules allowed new tactics that were unfamiliar. BJJ's style of ground fighting was alien to practitioners of many other styles and they hadn't trained to defend against it, but also crucially, within the rules of MMA taking your opponent to the ground is something you can often achieve and with relative safety, so BJJers initially enjoyed a big natural advantage by being able to move the fight to their territory. Fighters from other styles quickly learned to sprawl, posture up on the ground, and so on, after which BJJ still offered effective techniques but wasn't nearly as dominant as it had been in the early days.
The analogy is quite flawed anyway, though. MMA is a great sport for those who enjoy it, but it's still a sport and still has its own rules. What works in the octagon, with a fence around the outside and a clean, flat floor, between exactly two fighters wearing fight-friendly clothing, when both are unarmed and neither is allowed to employ "dirty fighting" techniques is... well, not necessarily what would work without those rules, whether in a different sport or in any sort of real life altercation.
No, it doesn't.
Virtually all historical martial arts styles not compromising effectiveness to adapt to some social constraint focus heavily on weapons. (Heck, even most of those compromising effectiveness to adapt to a social constraint do, unless the specific social constraint is the needs of a group completely barred by law or convention from arms.)
The “martial” in “martial arts” means “pertaining to war”—when was the last war you’ve heard about fought in exclusively one-on-one hand-to-hand combat without weapons?
> Is agile the Brazilian jiu-jitsu of software development?
I would say the various concrete methodologies marketed as “Agile” have approximately the same relationship to software development as BJJ has to warfare, sure.
That's Krav Maga, no?