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It's incredibly vague in every translation I have read. But if one likes to meditate on ideas it is a wealth of them. I see a genius who doesn't really care if his reader can ever understand what he says.Quote:
Originally Posted by QuickSciFi
Watching the melodrama, er, documentary now. I like how the guy who has gone out of is way to win tournaments somehow respects the principle of not having to show skill. What an oddity.
The one part that felt a bit like nails on a chalkboard was when the host explains the one school that had been passed-down for generations is so extremely obscure and out of the eyes of westerners, then all of the sudden, he presents himself ON CAMERA with the top sensei who even happens to be related to Musashi by blood. I mean, come on!
Yeah, as far as I know all of that is complete garbage. I'm a bit rusty on the lore (it isn't history, it's lore) but Musashi never had children and died in a cave with only a few friends occasionally visiting him. He also quit fighting at about 30yrs old, which is why he never lost. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by QuickSciFi
The original and complete schools in Japan were lost during the US occupation in which we forced them all to shut down for at least a decade. Once our soldiers took a liking to their fighting styles it was all the next generation trying to remember what their grandparents had taught them. I have been railed on for saying this before, because some people are so indoctrinated that they are practicing some ancient tradition. Each generation reinvents tradition and is forced to reapply it based on their own experiences though.
Either way, the school of Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu has the best claim to being almost one thousand years old and everything else stemming from it. But in the last twenty years I have seen its students go from legitimately dangerous swordsman to artists and dancers with no concept of fighting.
It really takes over an hour to beat that game ? Damn thats pretty long for an old arcade game.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Jackal
Not sure what you mean here. Are you saying the style got so watered down that it isn't even a respectable fighting style anymore, or did it's practitioners just give it up for a more artsy lifestyle?Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
I'm actually not sure. My instructor learned a fight style in the old style of martial arts. No demonstrations, always be prepared for an attack. Since then I see nothing but bad technique meant more for performances. Back then they would not be recorded at all, now they put on shows in stadiums and the technique is wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by old man
I'm not talking about a matter of opinion with the techniques either. I'm talking about it being so popular that slapping/hacking with a bladed object is "correct" that nobody seems to know any better. I'm also talking about students who spend five to ten years practicing forms that have no real world application, while being promised they are being made into warriors. The forms include the slapping/hacking sword motions as well.
Oh, and I forgot the posing. Not only would the old schools not allow video tapes of their techniques, but they would all laugh at this. (Mind the buzzing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtWtPEbTb0&feature=related
I didn't realize work could get so busy that it gets in the way of everything else!!
I'm not going to be around much until November, going back to San Antonio for 10 days on Monday...
Welcome to the wonderful world of "having a job". I've been working six days a week, ten hours a day since last april. :( I iz tired.
The problem is all I've had before were "jobs" this is a career now...and its becoming all consuming...