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- From: azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Fights and blackbelt confidence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.182623.20496@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:26:23 GMT
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- >Master Funakoshi said in one of his books: "When two tigers fight, one
- >is certain to be maimed, and one to die." Sometimes it's worth it and
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- Spot on. Fights very often (usually) have no winners, just two losers of
- varying degrees of loss. This is maybe the most important lesson that can be
- learned in any combat discipline. (Definition of a combat discipline:-
- Training that disciplines you to avoid combat?)
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