You can't mimic the ferocity of combat in a form. Only when hurt, battered, and knowing that you must tear the life out of your enemy or else he will kill you, will you actually understand. Otherwise, you just are just playing a game, mocking something serious and sacred. You will never understand as long as you have that bell/whistle or that ref in the background, and you know that will save you.
Pretend to be a tiger. Yeah, have fun with that.
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
~ Mark Twain
Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
~ Joe Lewis
A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.
~ Author unknown
"You don't feel lonely.Because you have a lively monkey"
"Ninja can HURT the Spartan, but the Spartan can KILL the Ninja"