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Does it mean a warrior mindset?
I think in a certain respect you do need a warrior mindset when trianing, after all this is a martial art, if you don't "intend" to be a warrior then how can you train in the way's of war.
After all isn't that what we are doing?
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Does it mean appreciation for the necessity of martial arts?
i think it does because if/when you are walking down the street and are acosted you will automaticly go to the training intent to defend yourself and react much quicker because you have been attacked with aggression in your training, If you have been in that situation before it is not an unknown experience, And fear is no longer a factor because you have trained with the intent to not get knifed or run through with a sword or thrown to the ground and now that intent will be evident and real, knowledge + skill + confidence in yourself =you not being attacked, because it is seen in the way you carry yourself.
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Does it mean respecting the tragedy of conflict in human history?
that is a difficult one, because there is still alot of tragedy in the present, but it is just a fact of life i knew alot of Marine's who liked the saying "train for war and pray for peace", I for one like that saying, looking back at the time period's we are gaining our knowledge from, It was a bloody time in human history, the Spanish incusition, the hundred year war, the war of the rose's there are so many, and just the everyday ruffian's. If we look at the history, this knowledge was written in blood because some one used/didn't use these technique's to defend themselve's and was either injured or killed so in my mind, we need to have respect for the Master's and art that we are studing and the intent to use these as they are meant to be used as an art of war, Yes they may be very dated (or some would say out of date) but look at the american military alot of the bayonet training look's very similar to half swording and in the Marine Corps there NCO's still learn to drill using the NCO sword and something's i learned with the sword i am now learning where it came from, so something's from our history of sword play are still in use now, just most of us never see it and those who use it may not know where it came from, i realy think we need to respect the tragedy of human conflict in our history that gave us this art, in my mind what we are doing will some day be history, when we are seventy and our grand children ask why we have that sword on the wall won't the story we relate be history and our grandchildren may have a new respect for us.
I"ll get off the soap box's now. <img src="/forum/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />
i am enjoying this discussion though.
