Ryan Bellegante

I train in a system where the sword is the omote or outside and our aikijujutsu in the ura or inside. The reason to train with a sword is it demands the most out of you. A sword does not care who you are and what your opinion of yourself is. If you mess up with the sword you get cut and that shows you that hey guess what you did that wrong don't do that again. Combat with bladed weapons is the highest of all human combat you don't get second chances you only get one chance to win and continue on protecting the ones that you care for. That is a quick an dirty of why I train with a sword.

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Ryan Bellegante

sojobow

I'm on YOUR side and do really agree with your stance (95%). So, i'm not interested in being combative on this issue. You will not find my stat written down anywhere. I have been taught, and fully agree, that you, myself - or just about all human kind - don't have the time in their lives to research everything. We usually find experts on a particular subject, judge their wit, and - if found usually correct - we save a lot of time in research just as you've said about your Sword instructor.

No problem with your stance supported by life expectancy. I'd add thought that (1) quite a few people - after childhood - rarely have any type of physical confrontation for the rest of their lives; (2) if you consider fleeing as a method of survival, running away would also enter your statistic since this person "survived." (3) Quiting, give him your wallet, surrender also might take a few slots in your stats.

But then again, what happens when you do, in fact, run into a warrior? That physical confrontation is ON (your bluff didn't work). Fleeing/Running away will not help because the warrior has trained to run you down no matter how far or how fast you fell. The warrior will NEVER quit or accept your surrender especially if you initiated the confrontation.

Thus, I agree with you ACCEPT when the untrained stands against the martial artist (now maybe - the 95% stat holds up?)

There are other forms of sword training (Kenjitsu, Sulsa, FMA, Aikido) that do put some realism in the current use of the Sword. But, we're being redundant expecially when looking at this subject from a Sword-Drawing specialist. Maybe we've clarified our stances by now. Meditation is also a great use and is a "martial" benefit.

TTEscrima

anewsome

That is an interesting techinque, can you talk more about the history of
that?

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