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Katherine Derbyshire wrote:
But why is budo training better?
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Better? I don't know if it is better (better than what, btw?) it is different. In budo training you cultivate different things than in other activities.
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And why is this specific type of budo training -- training which seeks to prepare you for real fights -- better than less "realistic" budo training?
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Both produce different kind of people.
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Closely related is the question of what "real" means, anyway. Which is more real? Full contact sparring with gloves and protective gear, or paired koryu sword kata with live blades?
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Both are training/teaching/transmission of knowledge tools. In full contact sparring you learn different things than when doing kata with live blades, but none of them is the real thing.