Great post. It was really interesting to learn more about your view on the different techniques. Especially the note on Application is important, and I see a lot of people forgetting about this when engaging with martial arts.
I recently saw a nice demonstration of Bart Jarm Dao by an experienced user, and while it's beautiful to watch I do not yet see the 'practical implications' in a real life knife fight, so a post of you on this would be greatly appreciated.
One small critique: You keep writing marital arts. For me, the word marital implies matters of well, marriage. I think you wanted to say 'martial'?
Wish you a great day!
Anyway, great post. Looking forward to more of you in the future.
Thank you for the editing note, I would like to blame it on my auto-correct but that would not be fair :D I will drop a side note here on the swords shortly.