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    Now imagine *staring into the eyes* of your opponent on that -presumed- field of battle...as his two friends kill you, hopefully not while moonwalking.
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    Exactly...

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    Photographs of WWI soldiers advancing with bayonets (i.e., with pikes) that were taken in combat rather than in training show the men advancing with heads down, their helmets covering their eyes. Heads didn't go up until the soldiers were actually within a few yards of the enemy lines. Partly, this was to avoid seeing what's coming, and partly it was because there are holes, abandoned equipment, caltrops and wire, and of course bodies all over the ground between the lines.

    As General Pickett could attest following the Battle of Gettysburg, that last couple hundred yards can be very long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hissho View Post
    Exactly...
    I think it's understandable that a whole bunch of people (Western and Asian alike) with nary any real-time experience, could buy into a whole bunch of borrowed information from the past that they really have no idea what to do with, as well as some poorly understood concepts, and just plain bad martial advice and then practice that throughout an entire career, virtually unchallenged.
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