tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648987284969270841.post5966709211083357009..comments2024-02-25T12:49:53.561-05:00Comments on The Budo Bum: Budo Isn't NaturalThe Budo Bumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829768452637120001noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648987284969270841.post-79937976901218785482019-03-14T01:43:50.272-04:002019-03-14T01:43:50.272-04:00I disagree. Many things we do "naturally"...I disagree. Many things we do "naturally" in life are not carried over into martial arts and so we have to be taught again how to be natural. That is, we train martial arts with an attitude which makes our movements odd.<br /><br />As an example, imagine sitting in a cafe waiting for a friend. You scan the people coming in for your friend, when they arrive you rise and navigate the tables towards them, at the "right" distance you extend your arm and grip their hand just hard enough to say "welcome". All of these are martial arts concepts but perfectly natural.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648987284969270841.post-73251690770505793702019-03-11T16:04:22.826-04:002019-03-11T16:04:22.826-04:00On the other hand budo is not "supernatural.&...On the other hand budo is not "supernatural." Nor, in my view, is there any behavior that can be said NOT to be natural. I suspect there are simply optimal and suboptimal ways to "do" moving, all of which humans can, in fact, do. Differently-abled folks. Amputees. Artificial joints. We learn both to walk and to "do" budo by trial and error, but we do that without ever leaving the realm, the prior unity of "the natural," of nature. Nowhere is there a place outside nature. Even driving a car is, therefore, natural. Finally, I robustly argue that this essay points to a real truth: no budo is more or less natural than any other, and "natural" is, in the first place, PR hogwash.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14107421244410889255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648987284969270841.post-41431313958847659332019-03-11T08:37:09.418-04:002019-03-11T08:37:09.418-04:00Good post, Peter.
A counter argument might be tha...Good post, Peter.<br /><br />A counter argument might be that we are conditioned since birth to carry ourselves in an unnatural way and that budo helps us to peel off the layers of baggage to return to a state of naturalness.<br /><br />All I know for sure is that when I practice regularly, life works better.Rick Matzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09699550034693340637noreply@blogger.com