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**duceswild** · 02-23-2006, 08:00 AM

Achilles, we'll have to hook up at the next Cleveland tourney. I'm usually there. (Wasn't this last year, though, due to commitments.)

Anyway, I see what you're saying. But may I add, you wrote, "none of the benefits you cite are unique to kumdo. I can get the same sense of hard work and triumph in the face of a challenge from boxing, a sport that is far less subjective and much less metaphysical than kumdo."

And I agree. I agreed in the earlier post, which is why I wrote: "Substitute football or baseball or tennis for kumdo and you'd still have the same thing."

As for boxing being less subjective, hmmm, there's still judges involved, and less metaphyiscal, I wouldn't say that, either. It's just that the two disciplines articulate things differently. Although, you're right, boxing tends to be more secular, although there's definitely a philosophy. However, I've known quite a few folks who take their sports quite metaphysically! Yogi Bera, for example, or Vince Lombardi?

02-23-2006, 08:00 AM	#19
duceswild Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 464 Senior Member	Achilles, we'll have to hook up at the next Cleveland tourney. I'm usually there. (Wasn't this last year, though, due to commitments.) Anyway, I see what you're saying. But may I add, you wrote, "none of the benefits you cite are unique to kumdo. I can get the same sense of hard work and triumph in the face of a challenge from boxing, a sport that is far less subjective and much less metaphysical than kumdo." And I agree. I agreed in the earlier post, which is why I wrote: "Substitute football or baseball or tennis for kumdo and you'd still have the same thing." As for boxing being less subjective, hmmm, there's still judges involved, and less metaphyiscal, I wouldn't say that, either. It's just that the two disciplines articulate things differently. Although, you're right, boxing tends to be more secular, although there's definitely a philosophy. However, I've known quite a few folks who take their sports quite metaphysically! Yogi Bera, for example, or Vince Lombardi?
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