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former hero of Japan, Prince Yamato was once sent by his father the Emperor Keiko to submit a notorious bandit. A great sword, the bandit kill anyone who tried to stop him. Yamato knew better than to confront such a sword openly, on the contrary, he pretends to ignore his reputation and he befriends.

Then one day the bandit went swimming and then he was gone replaced the Yamato sword bandit with a wooden sword that he fixed firmly in the scabbard. When the robber returned and finished dressing Yamato has revealed his true mission and asked him to surrender peacefully. The bandit laughed the challenge of the young prince, but when he went to his sword, he could not pull it from its scabbard. Although the evil villain UN-sheath his sword, Yamato killed him once.

The moral of this story is really not a moral but a strategy, in fact four strategies.
The first is not to try to beat an opponent that it is preferable to less. The second is known as Hide your dagger behind a smile and self-explanatory. The third is to undermine the source of the strength of your opponent, and the fourth never leave unattended your sword. Yamato has been admired in Japan's history not for his talents as a fencer, but his use of tactical cunning. For Chinese and Japanese warriors of the past, strength and skill that has not been balanced with patience and cunning was seen as hollow and ultimately useless.

For the modern martial artist on the scene sparring is his personal battlefield. His mind is the feet and arms-General and his troops. A general who signals his battalion left to initiate a diversionary skirmish is the same as a fighter to fake a jab left. And as in ancient times, it is the study of military strategy that can provide an edge over your opponents in the ring sparring or two lane.

The four strategies are the thirty-six strategies. First published in the Ming Dynasty can be traced back to antiquity to the top even if the author or creator is unknown. Little known in the West, thirty-six strategies are very popular in the East and have long been part of common folklore of China.

Beat the grass to scare the snake

When you can not detect the enemy planes you launch a direct, but brief, attack and observe the reaction of your opponent. His behavior will reveal his strategy. A seasoned warrior knows that strategy and not to reveal his true intentions. But experience, nervous of making a mistake, will over-react to feints and thus reveal their intentions.

This strategy is a variant of a feint, but is used to test the defenses of the adversary. The basic idea is to quickly close the distance, as if the attack, then stop just outside the critical range and see the reaction of your opponent. In unarmed combat there are only three defensive strategies can be used to intercept, block and block and dodge and counter. The method of interception is favored by the hunter with a high long-range jabs could rain down on his opponent before he hit it close enough. The jam and block method is favored by the stocky fighter who is built like a tank and can block incoming attacks like swatting flies. The dodge and counter is favored by agile fighter who did not look back and a solid attack, but in the next instant in slides and scores two points ahead of his opponent realizes, even what 's increased. Each has its strengths, each has its weaknesses. Once you know what strategy your opponent favors you simply use his counter. Against the use of interception steal firewood from under the pot to take advantage of its scope, its source of strength. Cons use blocker Clamor in the East, to attack the west by blockin.