Ryder
Member
Is it a part of your self-defense plans? I believe there is a great advantage to using the element of surprise and I often incorporate it into my self-defense training at the range. Found some good reading tonight. It is written about sword play but it doesn't take much imagination to realize how it also relates to guns. Sure rang a bell with me...
His other essays are pretty good reading also http://www.thearma.org/essays.htm.
Cut from "Fighting Skeptic - Of Martial Arts and Magic Arts"
By John Clements
ARMA Director
...I have often asserted that there is actually a strong but unrecognized connection between the martial arts and the magical arts, between the student of magic and the student of fighting. Although they would seem polar opposites, consider:
- We each employ deception and perception to achieve results.
- We both depend upon concealing our true actions and movements while reading those of our targets.
- We both employ adroit dexterity honed through long hours of practice; yet display a sense of sprezzatura—the appearance of unstudied ease and natural grace.
- We each study concepts privy to a select few that are at once simple yet secret.
- We each are concerned with how human beings react physically and emotionally to what they perceive and experience as reality.
- We both acquire mental and physical discipline through exercise of the craft.
- We each work toward an unattainable mastery over our art.
- We each seek ultimately to direct the mind of those we engage.
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His other essays are pretty good reading also http://www.thearma.org/essays.htm.