Originally Posted by
RedLine
Now i read a good book on martial arts, and in there it is said that the samurai's mind is like an empty bucket ( :D ) waiting to be filled when a fight starts, while the other guy is thinking how should i kill him chop his legs, or his head, first to tackle him or go sthraight to pierce him...And this thinking may take his life, because his reactions will be slow, he will be distracted and kille by the samurai, the samurai's strenght is that they can react to everything, the don't think about how to finish or something (or what to use), they just addapt to the situation, their brain is made to react to a part of a second, and when they see an opening in the opponents defence they just go for it, one second you're distracted and you're as good as dead.