Holidays … that period of the year in which you take care of relatives … distant … this year I did not return home and I thought I was able to avoid the disaster. Bad, though! I called my grandmother fixed when the house was full of … relatives. As a result, the phone passed because, of course, everyone had something to convey to me. 80% of those I spoke with, I was unable to identify them. I don’t think I have ever met them, or if I did it it was occasionally another «century». So it’s not put!
As I listened to him, touched and wise the cousin of my mother’s second cousin
an idea of his precipitated speech struck me. I quote from the memory: «We are friends on Facebook and I read your stories from Ninjutsu and Sword … and I don’t understand … what do you need, you, sword/ninjutsu?! Today crazy, I remove the gun … Bang-Bang and … ready. You are dead! Well, don’t you watch TV, haven’t you seen these go with guns and school?«Yes, that’s all you want to hear at the Christmas table! Then the thought we are on Facebook gave me cold thorns, I wanted to ask him again, but he passed the phone to another relative and I missed the moment.
It is not the first time that I hear this question. They turned me over time, some colleagues and some friends. «What do you do with the sword today?! What do you use? That you don’t go to the duel.«It is true that I did not expect to receive the question between two sarmale, but if it had happened, I deduce that it is interesting and that it would be good to try to give an answer.
When Sensei asked me if I didn’t want to come to the sword path, I said AND Without thinking because I want to learn, to accumulate knowledge. I didn’t ask myself a second To what I need. I want to say, it’s not like when I imagined that after learning to deliver it, you hang my sword on the belt, go on the horse and run on mega to buy a pomelo and a bread … because every time someone asks me, this idea has it in mind. «Yes, why are you making a sword? We no longer live in the time of the musketeers, so what helps you?«(No – those who know me, I know they read Dumas’s books once a year).
Obviously we no longer live those times. This is one of the reasons why they read the volumes … Today, we rarely meet the idea of true friendship (with everything that implies: loyalty, respect, honor). As much as I would love Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan, they were not among the reasons why I went to the sword.
Of course, if you look at so simplistic/fatalistic things, you don’t see diving in making a sword today. True, he removed a gun, pulled and ready, broke the film. If you think so, you just have to stay at home because all types of accidents can happen on the street … I know that the lines above may seem strange that come from someone who paralyzed fear only because he listened to the speech of a Ceausescu by taxi and then promised that he never put his foot in a taxiI said here – Click). But the fact that practically martial arts have helped me at that moment to regulate my wrist, to calm down, to correctly evaluate the situation.
Does the sword help me? Well, it helps me. So much! Initially,
I didn’t even understand. Also, when I heard for the first time to say «You have to hide after the sword«, The laughter swelling in my mind. Okay, ok … I will be thinner, but not so. I can hide after a pillar … bigger or after a tree … secular, but after a sword I don’t have in any way! … After a while, I started to understand that you can hide you after a sword. Place better than a possible attack. Learn really looking at an opponent, I anticipate his movements.
One of the most important things you learn both in Ninjutsu and the sword, is that you are not a safe victim. You learn to rely on your instinct, to trust yourself, to act in time, in short, to survive.
At the first training of the sword, after Sensei showed us a sword technique, he told us and exemplified us that the same is applied with an empty hand. I was perplexed. Why is he talking about the struggle with his empty hand to the sword? We came here to learn to fight with the sword, with the empty hand that we fight in Ninjutsu! I thought of myself. Or, all at the beginning, I wondered: Because we are still talking about spear that nobody beats with the spear today. Because there are really these preconceived ideas: if you have reached the sword, make only a sword; Or what work do we have with old weapons that are no longer used in battle anyway?! Of course, nobody beats with the spear today, but this is not (this is what I learned after a while). If you care and have a little patience, start understanding it Everything is binds. Everything we learn about the sword can be applied with empty hands. I tend to believe that if you want to learn how to use your body correctly, It is a need to learn how to use long weapons, short weapons. Change your perspective totally.
And, probably, you will understand much better what I try to explain now, when you give up looking at martial arts as a simple sport. It is more than a sport. The way we use weapons both in Ninjutsu and the sword, the way we relate to weapons is very different from how weapons are used in various sports disciplines (now I also refer to contact sports where weapons are used). It is a very different approach to weapons. I hope not to make mistakes, but this is my perception now.
So yes, the sword helps you a lot because it gives you another perspective on the «battlefield» and on your own body. At least that’s what I have understood so far. It is true that I have not received a horse and a tunic of muskets with the sword, but over time I made some friends. Why one Dojo (And I insist on this name, not in the gym) it is a special place where people with narrow values and beliefs are collected. And this is a big problem!
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