Transferring weapons skills

[alsey]

if you use any tool enough, eventually it will cease to become a tool and just become an extention of your body.

for example; the pen. when you write, you don't have to think about how to make your hand control the pen. you just think of where you want the tip of the pen to be, and its there. no concious thought necessary.

the same goes for weapons. i've been doing kendo for a few years now, and i no longer have to think how to make my body move the sword, that becomes subconcious. i just think of what i want the sword to do, and the sword does it.

the idea of things become extentions of your body is just the elimination of concious thought. when we're babies and we can't walk and stuff, we have to conciously think about moving our limbs, but now we've practiced it so much, it just happens. its making the body act with the mind without concious thought coming between them.

when learning a weapon style, we are again trying to reach the point where concious thought is eliminated. instead of just the mind and body acting together, the mind and the weapon act together. in kendo we call it ken shin ichi nyo, 'sword and mind as one'.

[UseoForce]

good observation, I like that.

[parkerlineage]

for example; the pen. when you write, you don't have to think about how to make your hand control the pen. you just think of where you want the tip of the pen to be, and its there. no concious thought necessary.

Wow...nice analogy! I can totally relate to that...I'm an English Writing major, and in the process of tyring to get my first novel published. You can take that metaphor even further; there are times when I go back and read segments of my book and think to myself, "Wow, I don't remember ever even thinking of writing that." All a part of you.

[bushido_man96]

Well, as far as that goes, I can't wait until swords become an extension of my body.