almost complete disconnect

“Todays martial arts schools have an almost complete disconnect between the training and the reality of actual hand-to-hand fighting as it occurs today.” - Peyton Quinn, Musashi’s Book of Five Rings: Explained in Plain English

Comment: The modern martial arts stresses the art as something like a self-help program to balance out the individual so they may find peace, tranquility and harmony with natures chaotic and stressful existence. It is also about social club like gathering for the connection and enjoyment of a gathering, like a party. It is also about our competitive spirit as coupled toward our more violent side that exists interconnected with our nature to not truly harm one another - all part of the survival instinct of humans and so on.