Victorious warriors win first and then go to war!
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war! “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu
This is a great quote from Sun Tzu from the Art of War. What does this mean? This refers in the martial art world to your training. Are you in study of a reactionary system or a preparatory system?
"while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” This is reactionary, and this is what the majority of arts taught today are. They teach you to react to what the attacker is going to do. This puts you at an immediate disadvantage. Now there are some today who are training with the idea of "preemptively" dealing with the opponent. That is reactionary too!
Victorious warriors win first!
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war." This is the core of a preparatory system, a complete system like Kosho Ryu. Kosho Ryu can be traced back as far as 600 ACE, with it's current roots to 1235 ACE. The complete system of study endures today because it works!
Complete martial arts training is learning that all aspect of life are training. Preparation is not just physical it is also mental and spiritual in nature. It includes all aspects from healing to destruction. Thus the term complete martial art.
Victorious Warriors win first - Your Style
Always remember martial art training is not about winning something! It is about continued and never end self improvement. Therefore you must continue to learn more and develop. The training should never become stagnant. And for many this is exactly what happens.
Kosho Ryu stands for continuous learning. It is complete because the student will see something from another art and learn it, if it resonates with him or her. Can you see how powerful this is?
And this is not for the purpose of RANK either. Many martial artist get caught up in the illusion that rank makes the martial artist, when it truth the martial artist makes the rank.
Victorious Warriors win first in Conclusion
I hope you can see the importance in what I am referring to here. How important it is to understand that you can never know everything. And this is why continuing to learn is critical.
The martial arts of old are in danger of extension because of the obsession of sport today.
And that is all sports. People make heroes out of these people and I have no idea as to why!
Sport is and always will be a FAD.
Train hard, so you can train harder and learn more. Thank you for reading Victorious Warriors win first.
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