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From the websight "Nakamura Ryu Battodo is a distillation of traditional Japanese swordsmanship ..." In other words, it is not a traditional sword system but a
by sorokod 8y ago
From the websight "Nakamura Ryu Battodo is a distillation of traditional Japanese swordsmanship ..."
In other words, it is not a traditional sword system but a modern one.
- sgt101 8y agoHeh - I practiced Kendo with Raoul Knutsen for a few years, there wasn't much meditative about the school he followed!
- sorokod 8y agoI have a lot of respect for martial arts disciplines that put martial arts first and keep spiritual aspects of the practice ( if they have one ) off the marketing material.
- Spearchucker 8y agoThis is interesting. I've been doing Krav Maga for some time and a few years ago did a week of it in Isreal, sampling all its aspects and applications - military, close protection, civilian, police /crowd control and... it's spiritual side. For a martial art so young I was surprised it even has a spiritual side. It's also become the aspect I find most fascinating. And yet the instructors accompanying us seemed embarrassed by it and the single instructor world wide teaching it from a kibbutz outside Haifa. It certainly wasn't why I chose to practice Krav Maga.
- hutzlibu 8y agoCan you tell more about the spiritual side of Krav Maga? The seeming lack of it, might be why I never took a closer lock into it. So I am also surprised that there might be one. Can it be that just some instructors personal spirituality got mixed into it?
- golemiprague 8y agoKrav maga is a fighting system derived from east european street fighting "wisdom", it is not a martial art per se and got no spiritual side. I know some people who studied it from the guy who invented krav maga, Imi Lichtenfeld. The thing is, because most of them are into martial arts they usually studied also other martial arts and sometimes incorporate it into their brand of krav maga. But it is mostly lessons from boxing and jiu juitsu, simple mma stuff rather than some spiritual stuff. The whole idea of krav maga is to distill whatever is effective and practical in real street situation for people who need to learn it in a relatively short time. Therefore it is based on simple and intuitive techniques with no spiritual side and no regard for any rules which still exist even in mma. If you find any spiritual side in this it would be a very perverted one.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoGiven it's less than savory origins I wouldn't consider it a basis for meditative contemplation either.
- Razengan 8y agoFor those wondering, this may be referring to it being the replacement for allegedly using live prisoners for sword practice.
- mirimir 8y agoIn my experience, Aikido includes many practical bits of Japanese swordsmanship. Practitioners (especially Iwama style) typically use wooden knives, swords and staffs in practice. Because that helps with proper form. Given that most Aikido moves are based on weapon moves.
- bradknowles 8y agoAdvanced Judo is also like that. I've never practiced advanced Judo, but I've seen it played. And I saw them using wooden weapons. Given that both Judo and Aikido were born from Jiu Jitsu, that makes sense.