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Remember, well over 90 percent of humans cannot defend themselves today
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Where does that statistic come from? I think that's a grossly inaccurate estimate. I think a majority of people can defend themselves just fine, as evidenced by the fact that majortiy of people will survive to within a few years on either side of their life expectancy.
As for swords in my room? I just have two. I bought them both when I took up Iaido recently. One for practice and cutting in class, and one because I wanted a sword that actually fit me, no matter how obscenely long the class thought it was.
But that's the thing. I don't see any real combative application in Iaido, nor does the instructor of the class. HE calls it a method of historical preservation, not innovation or realism. If I'm being entirely honest, I find it tdious and irritating in the extreme to have to put on special clothes to train in, and the fighter in me is always screaming in the background "That's not realistic at all!!" But I don't do that stuff for the "martial" benefits. I do it as a form of meditation. That's all I really think it's good for.