Today (at the time of writing) is 1 January, so we would like to take this opportunity to introduce everyone who has resolved to do more sport in the new year to a sport that can have an extremely positive impact on your life.<\/p>\n
Our website is centred around the Japanese sword and the associated martial arts. In this article, we would like to explain why these sports have both physically and mentally positive aspects.<\/p>\n
The training of a martial art, or more precisely the training of Japanese sword fighting arts, is versatile and has many positive aspects. The New Year's resolution to do more sport and thus improve your standard of living fits in perfectly with training in these interesting sports.<\/p>\n
In addition to simply improving your fitness, you can learn many additional skills that will be helpful in life.<\/p>\n
As most people probably want to do more sport for purely physical reasons, we would like to look at the physical aspects of swordsmanship first.<\/p>\n
The training of a Japanese sword art is a mixture of movement and endurance training. The individual movements are comparatively less strenuous, but the numerous repetitions make the training a physically demanding activity.<\/p>\n
Regular sword training increases general fitness.<\/p>\n
In addition to fitness, coordination and balance are essential aspects of sword training. These skills are trained in every training session.<\/p>\n
The precise execution of movements automatically trains complete body coordination and the variety of stances and positions that are practised in movements have an extremely positive effect on your own body awareness and balance.<\/p>\n
It is an aspect that will never come up in training, but of course the movement of the training sword also moves weight.<\/p>\n
Depending on whether a\u00a0 Training katana with blunt blade<\/a>\u00a0or Wooden training sword<\/a> This \"dumbbell weight\" is 500 grams to 1 kg. Long-term training with a sword is therefore more demanding on the body than simple movement training.<\/p>\n When training in Japanese martial arts, you usually quickly realise for yourself in which areas you still have physical deficits. Supplementary training such as endurance training therefore comes naturally and offers the opportunity to increase general athleticism.<\/p>\n In addition to the purely physical aspects, the mental training that goes hand in hand with training is an elementary component. Of course, we would also like to mention a few plus points.<\/p>\n Training takes place in training groups. In some schools the training consists almost exclusively of partner exercises, in others it is mainly individual exercises. In any case, the training always takes place in a group, where it is important to show consideration for your training partners and respect for other people.<\/p>\n Discipline is an important part of any sport, as progress can only be made if you regularly take part in training and push yourself beyond your limits. This kind of discipline is helpful in pretty much all areas of life.<\/p>\n The training takes place according to a specific sequence, which usually has only a few variations and very structured core elements. From the first day of training, the aim is to learn new skills. Acquiring these gradually strengthens self-confidence and, in the long term, skills are possible that would have been unthinkable at the start of training.<\/p>\n Martial arts are so profound that you never stop learning and there are always new things to learn. The humble attitude of the eternal student (even if you have long been a teacher) is part of the art of the sword and guarantees lifelong practice without tiring.<\/p>\n Training in a Japanese sword art opens the door to a variety of other interesting topics. The Japanese sword, meditation, tactics and strategy training and the study of Japanese history are just a few examples.<\/p>\nAdditional training improves individual skills<\/h4>\n
Mental aspects of sword training<\/h3>\n
Social interaction<\/h4>\n
Discipline<\/h4>\n
Structure<\/h4>\n
\nTraining is therefore a real contrast programme to the rather chaotic everyday life. Doing more sport of this kind has a positive impact on your own well-being.<\/p>\nLearn skills<\/h4>\n
Eternal improvement<\/h4>\n
Access to other interesting topics<\/h4>\n