Quote:
Demetrio Cereijo wrote:
I'd rather have prefered you had not brough the romanticised "martially effective" samurai.
|
I don't think there's anything particularly romantic about killing people. Which is exactly why I brought it up: the original budo was, first and foremost, about killing other people before they killed you. That's what "martially effective" means, when you get right down to it.
Which is why I think pursuing "aikido that works" can be, in its own way, just as delusional as practicing yoga with tumbling and calling it a martial art. What are you really studying, and why?
Katherine