![]() idealized (often extremely so), even impractical versions of combat. ![]() Why then would they have wasted their precious time on an activity that offered no combative benefits that couldn’t be better and more efficiently found in other forms of training?Īh, but the same could be said of these same Koryu’s apparent dedication to the pre-arranged partner forms that appear to have overwhelmingly featured stylized. ![]() The creators of Iai and the early exponents of the Koryu that utilized Iai were surely practical men, who not only often had already seen combat but would have quite reasonably expected to be involved in further combats given that they were professional warriors living in a time of almost constant unrest. “This then must beg the question, why would the early Koryu who integrated Iai into their training curriculum have bothered with it?” So, as I said at the end of that previous essay… In a previous essay in this series I addressed Iai’s limitations with respect to Self-Cultivation and In the last essay I explained at some length how ineffective Iai is for not only general combat preparation, but also for the specific purpose that is typically attributed to it: “being aware and capable of quickly drawing the sword and responding to a sudden attack.”
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