Traditional martial arts and those who practice these ancient arts are considered dreamers, fools or historical mummies because we are training arts that flourished 400 or more years ago. These people can not understand the reasons why we study archaic weapons like sword, bow, spear, halberd, etc… the deepest secret of martial arts was not to be found in the type of weapon, the thickness of the yoroi, the strength of the unarmed techniques but in something else. They started to look inward , into the deepest part of their being and they came up with the answer that have made them the experts of martial arts in the world. Traditional martial artists never get involved in modern day martial arts championships. traditional martial artist would step in a ring with rules he will loose the battle. 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