I have no clue what I am doing martial arts wise?

You see it goes like this. I only trained in sun bi hapkido and some of the marine corps martial arts that my father has taught me. I was also taught pressure points that cause the muscles to spaz out and disable the opponent temporarily. Currently I am with out a master and when I spar with my local friends I tend to incorporate everything I've learned into that one little skirmish. I have also noticed that I do a palm like strike ever so often and it actually at one point dislocated my friends shoulder.


What I am trying to ask here is that what am I doing exactly? My stance when in a skirmish is to have one arm semi out palm open and my other arm tucked in palm open facing up. I tend to mostly use my hands now to make these palm strikes and do my normal kicks along with closed fisted back hands. To be honest I have a sense of what I am doing but not certain and somehow I win these little skirmishes.

I have no clue what I am doing martial arts wise?
Recognition of the vastness of one's own ignorance is the first step on the road to true wisdom!





Now that you KNOW that you don't know, find a sensei who does.
Reply:It sounds like you are following the philosophical principle behind Jeet Kune Do.
Reply:What you are doing is testing yourself and your fighting ability to see what works for you. "Style" just means what principles your fighting is based on. Many techniques are the same or similar in different systems , this is because of similarities in their principles.





If I had to name your style , I'd call it freestyle martial arts.
Reply:you got that right you have no clue.
Reply:It almost sounds like it is a modge podge of strikes and locks. You have to remember that in the boot camps of the armed forces, they really don't have the time to actually "learn" a martial art. They are there for very long, so they learn what can be taught in a short amount of time. It might be effective, nut it might not be part of an actual art.