We as Khalsa Do not have to just learn shastar vidiya we can take everything effective from hundreds of martial arts
one thing I must understand your saying learn other martial arts also teek but why not learn shastar vidiya lets say niddar wasnt the teacher some other guy was would you learn then?
shastar vidiya is very wide ie grappling unarmed combat \
I have quoted below this from a old post
''Panth Parkash and other granths have techniques described in them, but nothing in detail that will allow someone to create a complete martial art out of. What you are trying to say is that Niddar Singh has taken a few techniques out of the granths and created a few moves out of thin air.
If that was the case, then how has Nihang Niddar Singh attained a martial art which is complete in every way, from terminologies and references to Dasam and Sarbloh Granth, to techniques, multiple fighting, batlefield strategies, use of all indo persian weapons in different ways (not just spinning in circular patterns), to levels which even the best martial artist can appreciate and acknowledge. If this was all his own fiction and blending, then he is a genius when it comes to martial arts, esspecially if he has taught himself.
(to the fraud part you said about niddar being a fraud )
What he has done is spent time under his gurdevs guidance and attained and achieved the vidiya that was passed down to him. I have audio interviews of various babas who knew Shastarvidiya, in which they explain the exact same principles and strategies that we have been taught in the akhara. These babas were also training partners of Niddar Singhs Gurdev and students of Baba Mohinder Singhs Gurdev. These babas also confirm that what Niddar Singh had shown them was the same vidiya that they were shown when they were learning. Im guessing you will say that this is a co-incidence aswell, and you need more concrete proof?! Some peoples hatred is so much that even if the Guru came and told you themselves you still wouldnt believe it!
No one can just make up what Niddar Singh teaches, it is impossible. If you cannot appreciate it that is your own weakness within the understanding of martial arts. If it was so easy to create a make believe Sikh martial art in the way that you claim Niddar Singh has, then why has everyone else missed the same things he is teaching?''
also if you read Charitrar 404, when Mahakaal enters the battlefield and is attacked by the Raakash, you will see the refference to him being like water against their strikes
Chris Crudelli comments on Shastarvidiya, and hes a great martial artist he he would want to learn it shows to an extent how good it is!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k5...ive_05_05_2009/
Forward to 2 hours 53 onwards.
anyone who disagrees that the Gurus Vidiya cannot stand up against others is being misled by their hatred for one man.