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One's Kumite training must be more than just strength and technique focused...
...although that kind of training is absolutely necessary and will serve you very well in your Kumite battles, it lacks the one quality that may in fact determine your fate...
...that quality being the spirit.
In the days of the Samurai, battles were a matter of life and death, and in a battle of physical equals, it was the intuition of the mind that decided who would live and who would die.
It is with this sense of spirit, fighting as if ones life was on the line, that gives the Kumite Martial Artist, the proper perspective and the edge in a battle...
..it is the spirit that must be developed along with the mind and body...
... all together they will transform you into a formidable opponent.
RJF
