Video -Adorable Young Japanese Girl practicing Sword -Iaido

[Katashi_itto]

6. As a practicing Iaidoka...your point? Trace any martial art back to it's original form,

generally they were there to give you the upper hand in combat.

Combat. You know, mankind's greatest sport.

Even today, while we practicing tameshigari against a bamboo pole, we acknowledge the idea that the pole we are cutting through is worth approximately two bodies that I would technically be slicing through.


"...real truth is messy and tinged with evil."

"Truth"...meh. Its all in your perspective.

No one in Iaido I know denies anything about the uses the the sword has been put to.

That's what the Samurai code of Bushido was meant to mitigate.

I've seen several people initially enthused with Iaido and Kendo, drop out because it suddenly sunk in, that this discipline is at it's core is about how to kill efficiently. In an of itself the discipline is neutral. It's is the sword's wielder's own morality that makes it a clean or bloody path.


A movie I heartly recommend is

"Sword Of Doom" it explores the nature of evil.