A fighter only fights professionally for personal gain. A warrior may choose to fight professionally, but with a different mindset. A fighter only knows competition. A warrior knows the value in competition, and that winning is not the point.
The list can go on and on. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back. Like this: Like Loading Discuss the post with the author, editors, admins or other readers Cancel reply.
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I teach Budo, and yes, we can fight BUT that is not the point. The point is NOT to fight, but to prevent the fight, as that is truly self-defense. In war, confrontation is the fight, but we try to avoid that in self-defense. We know that soldiers can be warriors, but maybe some are just fighters — do they follow the laws, the code of ethics or the morals of engagement?
The SS were great soldiers, but engaged in immoral crimes against humanity. Japanese soldiers committed atrocities in Nanking China in , raping, torturing and murdering over ,00 civilians and Chinese soldiers. This behavior is not embraced in Budo. They are not warriors, even though they may portray themselves as such in the eyes of others, but mostly in their own eyes. Mercenaries are good fighters too, but they are not warriors.
They too follow no laws, nor normal code of ethics. When I was younger, and my ego was pumped, I thought about being a good fighter, but as I got older and embraced better spirit and mind, and did not work solely on having a better body, I could see the importance of being a warrior rather than being a fighter.
My knife was designed with warriors in mind, not fighters. My knife is designed primarily to save life, not to take life. Too many systems embrace the knife as a tool for death rather than demonstrating how it is a tool for giving life.
The Avi Nardia Kapap knife was developed from many ideas — originating from my personal history. My father was a combat paratrooper — the background color on his wings was red as opposed to blue signifying that he actually made combat drops. This is rare, since most paratroopers train for but do not actually deploy into combat in this fashion.
As such, I grew up among the first paratroopers of the Israeli Defence Forces, absorbing their culture, history, stories, and pictures from the old days.
This means taking responsibility for one's entire life: job, family, health, attitude to life, success and self-esteem. The first strength principle in WingTsun says: "Free yourself from your own strength". I understand strength to mean pressure or unwarranted energy in combat, and generally in all unpleasant situations in life.
How does this unwarranted energy manifest itself in daily life: is it pounding the keyboard because I hate my job? Is it screaming around the house because everything seems to be left to me as usual? Is it getting blind-drunk, which I need to "switch off" from time to time? Perhaps it is the foul mood I get into when I watch the news on TV. Perhaps the envy and self-pity I feel when I see my neighbour's new car.
The list is endless…. I now use my energy in a different way. I invest it in further professional training, bring order into my finances, take more time for my family and attend WT training more regularly. I want to take over the rudder myself, and try not to let my "shadows", as Thompson calls them, control me and whisper in my ear: "The government, the tax authorities, your boss, your children etc.
There is nothing you can do about it anyway. They will all do you down if you are not careful. The next person who makes problems gets a smack in the mouth …".
And best of all, this responsibility thing really works. I recognised that just winning fights could not make me the person I wanted to be.
When I left my club for family reasons one year later, because my priorities had changed as did my environment, where fighting was accepted as part of human nature, fighting and aggression suddenly ceased to play such an important role.
My views and attitude changed. I treated people differently, and they responded differently. I now feel that success is possible in many other areas of life. My life is more varied. Naturally I am far from being free from fear and aggression. In certain situations it is very easy to fall back into old thinking and behaviour patterns, but I am trying to gradually replace them with new ones.
At one time I would react as follows in critical traffic situations: "Why is that fool cutting me up with his show-off car?! Is he looking for trouble?! Is he trying to force me off the motorway? I'll soon show him! I won't let it bother me, nothing in it for me. If I go rushing after him I'll just burn up expensive fuel. And what if I catch up with him anyway …? Am I going to do a stunt turn and force him to stop? No sense in that. After all, nothing happened and he didn't mean it personally, we don't know each other.
It is not without reason that there are three further strength principles in WingTsun. They concern the strength of the opponent, which is directed against us whether we like it or not, and we can only indirectly influence. What if somebody wants to make life difficult for us despite our laid-back attitude? Where is the boundary between "not taking everything personally" and self-effacement in the search for harmony, so that self-defence does not become "might is right" owing to an inflated ego?
As everywhere in life, it is a matter of balance, of the "middle way" or "golden mean". This middle way between the two extremes of a weak and an excessive ego is a healthy self-esteem.
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