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moment
11th November 2003, 07:18 PM
fighting is unique. the adrenaline-the excitement, and the win or lose situation puts us in another place. we are broken from daily worries and complaints and fixed into a position to either act or react-to live or to die.
Yowai
11th November 2003, 08:57 PM
fighting is unique. the adrenaline-the excitement, and the win or lose situation puts us in another place. we are broken from daily worries and complaints and fixed into a position to either act or react-to live or to die.

Umm no sorry. I think you watched too many samurai movies. We are placed in a situation where we have to hit targets with sticks to score points. The "score points to win" concept is inherit in many other sports, such as basketball, tennis, and soccer, yet we do not talk about "live or die" concepts in those sports.
Anjin-san
11th November 2003, 09:44 PM
moment... with no subtext, how long have you been doing kendo?
Fantasia
11th November 2003, 11:44 PM
Umm no sorry. I think you watched too many samurai movies. We are placed in a situation where we have to hit targets with sticks to score points. The "score points to win" concept is inherit in many other sports, such as basketball, tennis, and soccer, yet we do not talk about "live or die" concepts in those sports.

Yowai, I'm curious...

If I claimed the world was round, would you argue with that too?
emitbrownne
12th November 2003, 12:19 AM
If I claimed the world was round, would you argue with that too?
The world is not round.. but flat...
on the back of 4 elephants which stand proud atop a great turtle hurtling through space. ;)
Revenir
12th November 2003, 12:46 AM
Hurtling through space? I thought like all other turtles it was going from one big bang to the next big bang =P :tongue:
Fantasia
12th November 2003, 03:26 AM
I thought the turtles swum through the cosmic latte?
Machismo111
15th November 2003, 07:23 AM
fighting is unique. the adrenaline-the excitement, and the win or lose situation puts us in another place. we are broken from daily worries and complaints and fixed into a position to either act or react-to live or to die.

This sounds like one of my friends. He watched Fight Club too many times and has been trying to convince me that we need to fight because it'll "make me a man" Woohoo. I dont agree with him of course, but thats beside the point. Notice the topic is *fighting* =). Not Kendo in particular, but in all sports its not just a boring situation where you're only thinking about hitting a little ball through a whatever. There is a fierceness in competition, and adrenaline is pretty addicting. I think that's clear considering all the various activities out there =).