OT: Western v. Eastern martial arts

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I think a lot of the spiritual / artistic part of martial arts is exaggerated in popular culture.

That being said, I have come to one near spiritual conclusion concerning Jiu Jitsu...

The more patience I have and the more I focus on relaxing, the better chance I have of winning. Since I have come to that conclusion the effort I do exert is spent almost exclusively on getting safe and dominate positions. If my opponent is spending a lot of effort trying to out power me or perform submissions early without position, I know I am going to win.

When I first started grappling I could get gassed after a minute or two of rolling. Now I feel like I can go forever if I focus more on relaxing, going for position and tricking my opponent to shift their body weight a certain way by making them believe I want it to go the other.

I am not sure how that can be translated in dominions as an advantage of a grappling art, but unfortunately I don't study a striking or weapon art so that is all I have to offer. I hope that helps a little towards your comparison between martial arts.