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Originally Posted by kokunin
originally kentjutsu, liek most koryu, had these too...all the do's stress mental awareness of certain aspects of battle, but your not supposed to be thinking when you fighting (you're just doing), so i never got the point of it...to kill and not be killed was the purpose, all mental statises were just along on the ride...if you were in a place that had very few battles and hardly any territory fights (like into the late tokugawa era) then you sharpen your fighters/samurai for war with mind things, but when the blades startt coming down and you want to live to see the other side...you hack away...
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No. If you hack away without any thought to what you are doing, you are already dead. The other guy will know you are out of control and will kill you. If you want to live, you darned well better have better technique than the other guy and be able to have a calm, clear head. You'd have to be very aware of what is going on. If you did not think, you would not survive.
You have to be one step ahead if you wish to live. If you cut without thinking, you can't plan strategy or have any control over the situation.
"Cutting without thinking" is what happens when you have practiced so much that you can cut well without having to think about how to properly DO the cut. Understand? It's not how you fight. See, there has to be a thought process in order to defend or attack successfully, but there has to be a balance as to how much one thinks. If you think too much, you are dead. If you think too little, you'd already be dead too. See?
Anyway, this is stuff that I do not expect people to try in their backyards. It's too dangerous.
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