Why I hate Kyudo

**wakinonioi** · Posted On: 11/03/2006 3:35pm

Originally Posted by DerAuslander108

Really?

What kind of kimchi did you eat?

The kind that was put in front of me at various restaurants and homes. I didn't stop to request a fact sheet, I was too hungry.

***DerAuslander*** · Posted On: 11/04/2006 1:53am

Gotcha.

So...you know nothing of the different varieties of kimchi then? The subtle and not so subtle flavorings?

**wakinonioi** · Posted On: 11/04/2006 3:16am

Originally Posted by DerAuslander108

Gotcha.

So...you know nothing of the different varieties of kimchi then? The subtle and not so subtle flavorings?

I am absolutely no expert on kimchee. I only know that I have encountered kimchee of different color and taste in different parts of Korea, and that the kimchee I have had in Japan contained no metallic **** taste. Perhaps one needs to be a great Connoisseur like yourself to detect the subtle **** flavor. All the years you spent eating **** must serve you well in such evaluation.:icon_roll

**rexkwon** · Posted On: 11/04/2006 11:05am

If Kimchi is in contact with metal for anytime at all it gets that metallic taste ,and some of the ones form Japan are bad but not all . There some good brands from the U.S.

**MEGA JESUS-SAMA** · Posted On: 11/04/2006 2:38pm

if kimchi is so great why did hamburgers conquer the world?

**Donnerschlag** · Posted On: 5/11/2011 9:12pm

Originally Posted by Steve

Kyudo and Kyujutsu are two different things....

Yup; same as the difference between Kendo and Kenjutsu. (Kendo being some bastardized form of combatsport than a functional martial art. Just like Modern Fencing.)

I guess there's a pattern here: avoid any Japanese martial art with a title that ends with 'do'. :)

**TheMightyMcClaw** · Posted On: 5/11/2011 9:28pm

This is the dire consequence of years of saying "search function, noob."

**ProfessorChaos** · Posted On: 5/12/2011 12:27am

Originally Posted by Donnerschlag

I guess there's a pattern here: avoid any Japanese martial art with a title that ends with 'do'. :)

My name is Bill. I think I'll name my super deadly art Billdo.

**DARPAChief** · Posted On: 5/12/2011 1:19am

Originally Posted by Donnerschlag

Yup; same as the difference between Kendo and Kenjutsu. (Kendo being some bastardized form of combatsport than a functional martial art. Just like Modern Fencing.)

I guess there's a pattern here: avoid any Japanese martial art with a title that ends with 'do'. :)

Congrats with the search function. Your next assignment will be to figure out what "do" means and what it entails. Focus on Jigoro Kano and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police competitions in the early 20th century.

If people find themselves flipping out about Kyudo not being the Toyama Ryu of archery, what Karl Friday says about the Japanese martial arts in Legacies of the Sword will be of interest. Namely, the defining characteristic of bugei being its development into something comparable with the fine arts. I believe this to be especially true of Kyudo; whereas Kendo and Naginata offer a competitive element that may make for some semblence of combat training, both rule systems are geared towards achieving ippon and not surviving an encounter. This is rarely the focus anymore in Gendai Budo.

**Donnerschlag** · Posted On: 5/12/2011 1:28am

Originally Posted by DARPAChief

Congrats with the search function. Your next assignment will be to figure out what "do" means and what it entails. Focus on Jigoro Kano and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police competitions in the early 20th century.

My post was meant to be a joke. :P

However, just to make sure I understood this correctly, are you saying that Kendo & Naginata are still martially sound just because they are competitive and martially based?