Re: CMA/IMA in Kumamoto
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:27 am
Haha yeah.. not sure I would myself, to be honest. I think JR is one of those 'that's for me/that's not for me' kinda things. Amazing stuff, and I'm reliably informed that they take that primal, singular direction to a surprising level of development and complexity.. which is downright scary (as intended I'd imagine). The Shimazu mon (crest) is reflective of that kinda scary-ness... it's a circle with a cross inside, apparently the horizontal line represents the enemy's sword which has been beaten down into the forehead by the JR practitioner's (vertical line) hehe - badass. Just not sure if I could handle that degree of austerity in my training.. the school I study (from which JR derived, strangely) follows a very different approach.. almost polar opposite.