Post by thekomusosystem on Sept 8, 2007 9:16:19 GMT
"No judges, no referees, no trophies. One rule only Be friends at the end of the day. This means no one should spend the night in the hospital, and everyone should leave with the IQ that they came with." Dog Brothers.
There will be three Tourneys per year, each held during end of season gatherings.
The Gatherings will be;
The Autumn and Winter Gathering,
The Spring and Summer Gathering,
The End of Year Grand Gathering.
The point of the gatherings is to test ourselves, our courage and our trust in each other and come together as one group to celebrate our training and unity. We will start with celebration drums, warm up and combat. We will finish the day with our families, food, drums, drink and much talking about the days combat.
To this end we will alter our practice in order to prepare ourselves more fully to do battle. There are new fitness schedules in preparation, new methods of practice and new traditions to follow.
The Komuso System is no longer another self defence/ martial arts system it is now to become what it was intended, a way of being.
“There are too many ways that human ingenuity can come up with to damage someone else irreparably for us to think up and be able to enforce rules against all of them. The spirit of the fights is that of members of the same tribe helping each other to prepare to defend the land, women, and children of the tribe. Both going too hard and going too soft are counterproductive. In this spirit, what might be too much for one man to handle, could be too little for another. It is a sign of respect for your "opponent" to really go after him—you are saying you respect and believe in his skill and spirit to deal with it, yet at the same time even in the adrenaline of the moment you are looking out for his welfare so as to not damage him and thus weaken the tribe. It is in your best interest that he be as good a warrior as possible when you stand together in battle” . Dog Brothers
“the purpose of the days should be to give ourselves a forum to experiment with the style and see what we can make work for ourselves, introduce a real feeling of danger, get the adrenalin really going and appreciate the effect this can have, physically and mentally.” Lee Curtis The Komuso System.
There will be three Tourneys per year, each held during end of season gatherings.
The Gatherings will be;
The Autumn and Winter Gathering,
The Spring and Summer Gathering,
The End of Year Grand Gathering.
The point of the gatherings is to test ourselves, our courage and our trust in each other and come together as one group to celebrate our training and unity. We will start with celebration drums, warm up and combat. We will finish the day with our families, food, drums, drink and much talking about the days combat.
To this end we will alter our practice in order to prepare ourselves more fully to do battle. There are new fitness schedules in preparation, new methods of practice and new traditions to follow.
The Komuso System is no longer another self defence/ martial arts system it is now to become what it was intended, a way of being.
“There are too many ways that human ingenuity can come up with to damage someone else irreparably for us to think up and be able to enforce rules against all of them. The spirit of the fights is that of members of the same tribe helping each other to prepare to defend the land, women, and children of the tribe. Both going too hard and going too soft are counterproductive. In this spirit, what might be too much for one man to handle, could be too little for another. It is a sign of respect for your "opponent" to really go after him—you are saying you respect and believe in his skill and spirit to deal with it, yet at the same time even in the adrenaline of the moment you are looking out for his welfare so as to not damage him and thus weaken the tribe. It is in your best interest that he be as good a warrior as possible when you stand together in battle” . Dog Brothers
“the purpose of the days should be to give ourselves a forum to experiment with the style and see what we can make work for ourselves, introduce a real feeling of danger, get the adrenalin really going and appreciate the effect this can have, physically and mentally.” Lee Curtis The Komuso System.