{"id":311,"date":"2009-01-31T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2009-01-31T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:32:02","slug":"my-vision-beyond-5th-kyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"My vision beyond 5th Kyu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confronting cruelty,
\nStrengthens the mind and spirit,
\nVanquishing discord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I will start out by saying this is a philosophy that I have come to myself.\u00a0 It is not representative of the opinions of the TenChiJin dojo as a whole.<\/p>\n

After one has passed 5th kyu, I assume that they are serious enough about their training that they can endure.\u00a0 The training we do is not the best for physical fitness or even discipline.\u00a0 These are not things that you can be given through a martial art, especially not this one.\u00a0 The only thing we are good for is survival in a dangerous situation.\u00a0 This said we have to train in such a way that gets us ready for a real situation.<\/p>\n

What will it be like when you are in a fight?\u00a0 No go ahead take some time, I’ll wait.\u00a0 It is my responsibility to give that answer, or as close as I can to it.\u00a0 Your practise must escalate to a point where you know what it will feel like when someone is trying to hurt or kill you.\u00a0 That’s what you are training for right?\u00a0 The world can be a dangerous place and that’s why we take the martial arts.\u00a0 Regardless if it is falling off a bike, or protecting yourself or loved ones (or complete strangers Shidoshi O.) from danger there is not time to hesitate.\u00a0 Your mind must be clear, your spirit determined and your body free to act as it should.<\/p>\n

At 5th kyu, you should have the skills to defend yourself against an untrained opponent at the very least (see more about this at the end of the post).\u00a0 But if you have all the skills in the world but hesitate it is meaningless.\u00a0 If you don’t have the courage to act when you need to then your martial arts will in the end mean nothing.<\/p>\n

The only way to gain this skill is through training in a way that pushes you outside of your comfort zone so that you are accustomed to how it feels when you are in a confrontation.\u00a0 You must train in a way that will develop fudo shin (the immovable heart).\u00a0 But more on the Immovable heart later, your life is on the line so practise well.<\/p>\n

Yes untrained fighters, I promised I would talk about them..\u00a0 I have heard countless times, “well if you meet a bar fighter then he will be way better than a martial artist anyhow” or “fighting experience is all that matters anyway so when you get on the street your martial arts means nothing”.\u00a0 If people could just naturally win then there would be no reason for the martial arts.\u00a0 If practise did not improve your skills then why would every other physical endeavour do it.\u00a0 I admit the reason why I have posted information on training is because we as martial arts teachers are not taking advantage of the advances in sports learning.<\/p>\n

For you to assert that an untrained fighter who gets into a scrap a week at the bar is going to be better than a properly trained martial artist is like putting a basketball player who practices on a team against someone who just was handed a ball told the rules and playing pickup basketball (one on one) one day a week.\u00a0 That assumption is madness at best.\u00a0 It does not apply in any other activity, why in regards to fighting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Confronting cruelty, Strengthens the mind and spirit, Vanquishing discord. I will start out by saying this is a philosophy that I have come to myself.\u00a0 It is not representative of the opinions of the TenChiJin dojo as a whole. After one has passed 5th kyu, I assume that they are serious enough about their training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}