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Nick Porter wrote:
And a good boxer would never let you get his center, but now it's me playing devil's advocate  .
I agree completely; like with everything, balance is necessary. You train in the dojo for the necessary physical response. You train outside of the dojo to grow the necessary mental responses (e.g. learning in-depth the history of the Arts), and eventually the physical and the mental merge and you train inside and outside the dojo and acquire the necessary spiritual responses.
Cheers,
Nick |
Well, of course, that's martial arts... no one lets you get anything. You have to take it. It's back to that old question of who would win when an Aikido guy meets a guy who does art X/Y/Z? The answer is the guy who is best at what he does.
Ushiro Kenji, when asked what would happen if two opponents met who both understood what he was teaching. He replied that the guy who would win would be the guy who got inside the best. That is a perfectly good Koan to reflect on and one, the answer of which, will change with time and understanding.