Motivation

If you care about realism, martial arts can be a tricky thing to train.
Do you go full speed and full contact so that you’re ready for a “real” fight? Maybe. That’s a whole lot of risk. Most professional sport fighters don’t spar with full contact. They’ve figured out that it’s too risky – they end up hurt and unable to train.
So how about training with some speed, some contact, and a training knife? It’s not sharp, but there’s few things more motivating than a knife in the belly (even when the blade is dull).
Is it realistic? Will it work? Those are open questions, but the intensity level, the pressure, and the consequences of failure are definitely there.

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