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- From: d90eridy@odalix.ida.liu.se (Erik Dyrelius)
- Subject: Re: -do, -ju(i)tsu and martial arts
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.011047.22628@ida.liu.se>
- Sender: news@ida.liu.se
- Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:10:47 GMT
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- I just want to add a few notes.
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- I am a lowly (a couple of years totally) student of the Kendo and Iaido arts.
- My sensei is a swede who has been in Japan for two years of FULL time study.
- That is all day 7 days a week.
-
- My views of training and the importance of the different aspects of training
- is that you can master forms and techniques to almost perfection and become
- good, if your body agrees to that kind of training. But with the right
- spirit you can be as good or better with a much weaker body and another
- kind of techinque. This other kind of technique is a more relaxed and less
- exercised kind of drill. Especially in a martial art like iaido where you
- follow an exact kata, what makes the differance is the spirit.
-
- (Personally I doubt the meaning of training for self-defence or any other
- kind of real/non-competitionlike combat meaningless and thats partly why
- I'm training something that is almost meaningless in that aspect (unless
- I carry a sword, which, I think, would cause some problems with the police :)
- But martial-art is a much better alternative than a handgun since fists
- don't ususally kill by accident)
-
- (Don't flame me for this I just stated my opinion!)
-
- ((Lots of () too))
-
- /Erik
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