Japanese Art Techniques

Any person who is a Japanese martial art, you refer to techniques in English or Japanese? What is used in your dojo? Do you know Japanese is useless or useful?

Opinions please! :)

In my dojo, the school rather formal and old. Of course, the fact that its full of students from the West, there is more talk and question / answer that you might find in Japan, but overall, very traditional.

We use formal ritual (which is part of art), we use the official label Japanese (another part of art) and use the Japanese terminology (yet another part of art).

I want to learn the art as a whole - not only physical methods, but the whole thing ... historical liguistic, mental, spiritual, and of course, physics.

The meaning in Japanese is usually very simple and clear sound in a very literal description, but its interesting to use Japanese terms - its an extra challenge that I like personally.

I think it's worth - the first part of the history of art, part of which is to transmit as you learned yourself. If it is a Japanese art, whether someone has changed along the way or if you use the Japanese terms. I'm not necessarily only for the study martial aspect, I am also a student at the artistic side.

Also, if you know the Japanese language, you can understand any dojo dojo rather than non-Japanese only.

Really the key to a Japanese dojo are:

Hai - Yes
Nei - No
Mas Wakara - I understand
Wakara Masen - I do not understand
Domo - Thank you (Domo Arigato or - Thank you)
Dozo - Please
Sensei - Teacher / Trainer / One 'who preceded us "

Everything else is only useful on the cake icing, if Sensei is verbose in their teaching, but this ice cool. Besides, knowing the Japanese words will never hurt, only help - why not?

If you're an airline pilot, you learn and speak English. There is not any country you came from or even if you, like English, is what you need to talk to an airline pilot. Communication in flight is of vital importance, and English is the de facto language of the airways.

In judo (for example), you need to learn the Japanese names of the throws, chokes, joint locks, and other movements and elements of the etiquette of the dojo. It really does not matter if you like Japanese or speak, you need to learn the Japanese terms that you can talk intelligently with others. Especially with an art so is a global lingua franca is necessary. Judo is Japanese, developed by a Japanese of Japanese fighting arts, so that its lingua franca is, of course, Japanese.

You do not need to speak French to the practice of judo in France (though it helps). Osoto gari gari osoto is still known in France; gatame juji gatame is still juji; still Hajime Hajime. Until you know the basic terms of Japanese, you can go anywhere in the world and practice judo without difficulty at all, at least in its rudimentary form.

So, I vote that yes, it is important (at least in judo) to learn the words of Japanese origin - not because there is something particularly sacred Japanese, or because you need to do honor to O Kano-sensei, or some other mystical reason for deception, but simply because Japanese is the language of judo.

Yoshin ryu jujitsu I study. It is a very traditional art. We only use the Japanese terms for throws, strikes, kicks, joint locks, position, breakfalls, sit, stand, direction (left, right, front, rear), counting, and many other things, but you get the idea.

I have no particular opinion or feeling about it one way or another. It's just the way it is when you study a traditional art.

If you choose to train in a traditional setting.