It is apparently perfectly acceptable to come out and use extremely harsh language to denegrate and disparage the fundamental training techniques of other systems in a public forum as long as you are a budo god, or speaking on the behalf of one.
Piss on Meik Skoss and all that koryu stuff he's into! He couldn't cut his way through rice paper with shinken.
Sincerely,
budo deity Charlie
Okay, on a more serious note, I'll repeat that while I don't share your view, Charles, I am sympathetic. I think what this comes down to is you feel iai is combat effective and others don't, and that pisses you off. Fair enough. Fact is, me, Neil, David and all the kendo guys on this board would take care of all of you in nothing flat...
But seriously. I respect your views, and I urge you to take a "f--- 'em if they can't take a joke" attitude toward this kind of dialogue. As far as I can tell (will check other thread), this mostly happens on the net, where it's easy to blow things out of proportion, you know?
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