Good to see you here!
I like what you've added, and...martial art seems to me less like a particular pattern and more like a category of practices. What you wrote here in general i read as a call to look to martial art for patterns, or examples of practices that can manifest patterns.
Whether or not we leave it as a pattern, your commentary in how martial art relates to patterns could be put (also, or instead) on those respective pages.
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--John Abbe.....Tue Jan 26 18:47:17 -0800 2010
By all means "look to martial art for patterns, or examples of practices that can manifest patterns," but, like many of the other patterns listed, like eating together, it very much depends on how you look at an experience/happening that decides whether you call it a pattern, category of patterns, or process.
In this case, I suspect: martial art is the way/pattern/archetypal metaphor of studying and practicing various forms of conflict in a workshop/seminar setting before and/or after experiencing them in less protected situations. The pattern then manifests as various processes (wrestling, surrender, striking with the foot and hand, asking open questions, running swiftly, making direct requests, distraction or misdirection, balance taking, deliberation, various myriad strategies and tactics) and methods (aikido, tai chi, debate, industrial warfare, greco-roman wrestling, non-violence, fencing, etc.)
In favor of your suggestion: perhaps, for instance, "blending" is a pattern which suggests getting out from directly in front of a someone who seems to see you as an "opponent," joining beside them or with their intention, and encouraging/facilitating full expression of whatever they are working with. Then aikido might be a process, one of several processes in a larger field of study called "martial art."
Is this close to what you intended? In what ways have I missed your meaning?
--Brandon WilliamsCraig.....Sun Jan 31 22:41:30 -0800 2010
Yes, that goes in the direction i was sensing.
--John Abbe.....Mon Feb 01 23:41:03 -0800 2010
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