Matt Wallis
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Striderteen said, Japanese schools have access to highly effective "secret" techniques, but teach them only to a select handful of heirs; this leads to better swordsmen,
I don't buy it. First, where's the evidence for this assumption that "Japanese schools have access to highly effective "secret" techniques..."?
Second, what makes you think Europeans also didn't have "secret techniques"? Leichtenaur's (sp?) stuff (basically the founder of what people would call the German school of fighting) often appears in verse and rhyme so that it could only be properly understood by people who had already trained in the techniques.
Third, what makes "secret techniques" better than not secret techniques anyway? I mean, combat is combat. You use movement, footwork, cuts, thrusts, parries, grabs, strikes, etc. What secret is someone going to come up with that would not ever had occurred to someone experienced in combat?
Regards,
Matt
I don't buy it. First, where's the evidence for this assumption that "Japanese schools have access to highly effective "secret" techniques..."?
Second, what makes you think Europeans also didn't have "secret techniques"? Leichtenaur's (sp?) stuff (basically the founder of what people would call the German school of fighting) often appears in verse and rhyme so that it could only be properly understood by people who had already trained in the techniques.
Third, what makes "secret techniques" better than not secret techniques anyway? I mean, combat is combat. You use movement, footwork, cuts, thrusts, parries, grabs, strikes, etc. What secret is someone going to come up with that would not ever had occurred to someone experienced in combat?
Regards,
Matt