Reclaiming the Blade Page #9

seems so far from us,

symbol of the sword

shines bright.

The journey it takes to

become good with your blade,

to become good with your sword,

that takes a lot of time,

a lot of effort, and

that changes a person,

matures a person.

Obviously in the process

it is going to teach you

to become a better man.

We hope to be--who knows--

someday a better swordsman,

maybe even mildly

average swordsman.

It would be more than

I would ever expect.

What story can

an ancient sword tell us?

I can't say I really

understand the sword as of yet,

but hopefully one day

I will be there.

Eventually, I would like

my studies to take me to

the great heights

of beating my instructor--

the first woman

to ever do so.

Sword fighting is kind of

different and looked like

good fun and I've been a couple

of times and it is good fun.

While those who train today

have only begun to scratch

the surface, they are slowly

beginning to lift the shadow.

You know, it's all

those dreams that

you really can't have any

more 'cause you've grown up.

People are often looking

backwards in time to see

whereabouts we've come from.

Even in the '50s,

progress was happening.

People were looking forward

and now we've reached a point,

I think, where we're

looking all around,

trying to find meaning

to what's happening.

People need to feel that sense

of identity with their past

and their history.

There's nothing

richer than history.

History is, you know,

history is, all of us

over thousands of years.

I've been doing martial

arts for over 20 years now.

I've noticed my body changing

and I'm getting older and things

are a little bit

more difficult.

However, I don't

give up on that.

I train myself harder so it

becomes very, very mental.

Your body goes away, but your

mind should stay sharp.

So I get a bit more gray

and a little more stooped.

As long as I can

swing a hammer,

I'm just going to

keep doing this.

Within the sword lies the power

both to protect and to rule.

It can be used for great

evil or for great good;

to control a people or stop

the hordes of a tyrant;

to break the rightful will of a

nation or to set the truth free

and every man a king

over his own fate.

A good swordsman does not take

lightly unsheathing his sword.

If your sword is out, it means

that you intend to use it.

It's a pity, really, that we

couldn't fight with rapiers

today rather than guns.

It's a pity that gunpowder

was invented, in my mind,

because we would probably

still be fighting with rapiers.

And I'd be good at it.

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