Has communication among different systems and Instructors become better or is it still the same? What I've noticed is that while it's become somewhat better. Instructors and Practitioners of different styles still have a difficult time communicating or unifying with other practitioners of different styles.
There is a unifying force across the arts - the warm communal feeling of togetherness that comes from a shared hatred of WC ! (but like Millwall,we don't care :woo: )
I think you need to better define what you consider unification, and for that matter different styles. Are you talking about say, amongst karate groups, between say karate and BJJ, etc?
My Association holds an event annually - In addition to material about combat specifics (and a rather handsome chap delivering a great talk on articulation of force) we had Masters and Grandmasters from BJJ Boxing Small Circle Ju Jutsu Wing Chun Taiji Inayan Escrima Cabales Escrima Jeet Kune Do (duh!) Wrestling And we all got on like a house on fire and made lasting friendships.
Not here they don't. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCN1eIWdz4"]MAP Meet 2014 - YouTube[/ame]
"Because of styles, people are separate. They are not united because styles became law. But the original founder of the style started off with hypothesis, but now it has become the gosple truth." - Bruce Lee
be water, my friend, and apply yourself to the burnt area also martial artists from different styles have been communicating effectively for ages. just look at the origins of okinawan karate, the chin woo association, the early gendai budo styles, etc. others, as befitting any conglomerate of humans, have on the other hand been buttholes and actively antagonized others. but screw those, they're buttholes.
