Quote Originally Posted by Evil_McNasty View Post
Do we have some closet black belts on here?
There's a lot of important lessons from the East that are lost on us as a society and as a warrior culture. Obviously reading Musashi is highly recommended, but also check out Kenji Tokitsu's The Inner Art of Karate. Even if we have no interest in learning that particular style or discipline, the subject explanation in the book is superb. One of the greatest lessons from that particular text is understanding timing and tempo in violence. The deeper it gets we realize that just like physical motions and muscle memory from all the actions we perform with a weapon, we can move deeper into engraining thought as muscle memory, making tactical decision making a stream lined process. This obviously shortens the time span in the loop and allows the mind to operate in the void under high stress and friction. I think you'd dig it.