Post by Wolfeye on Aug 13, 2015 23:04:59 GMT
"As you learn and train and test yourself against the galaxy, all your skills have a chance to improve and grow as well. When you devote some of that training to your weakest skill, you will know."
Masterful skills are great. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that mastering a particular skill is a great feat. However, just as that is great, being weak in a particular skill is just the opposite. No single skill can compensate for being terrible in another, and thus, having proficiency in all skills is better than being a master in one. Tricks of a particular type may be able to transfer into other skill sets, but each is its own. You are only as strong as your weakest link-- this is true in anything from the skills of a single person to the many diverse and varying people in a team or clan that makes it what it is.
What is meant by this in practical JKA combat, is that being great in a particular style (Staff, duals, single, anything) is undoubtedly good. No one can say it is bad. But as with anything, you can't succeed with one skill alone. You must be able to perform with all of them. You need skills in footwork, not just bladework, and skills in parkour and movement, not simply combat. You need skills in tactics, teamwork, dueling-- all these skills are necessary. You don't need to master them all, but you need strength in each. A well-rounded warrior is by far more effective than a specialist in one area alone.
And in the end, when you learn these skills in other areas, you may just find you improve even your greatest skills in some way or another, or have a new perspective on them. Often times, playing as the other side and understanding how they fight, their strengths, and their weaknesses, can teach us how to better defend and fight against them (such as learning to play a staff in order to beat a staff).
"My task before you is this-- Take your greatest weakness, devote effort to it, strengthen it, and I will show you how it shall strengthen your power in the Force."
Masterful skills are great. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that mastering a particular skill is a great feat. However, just as that is great, being weak in a particular skill is just the opposite. No single skill can compensate for being terrible in another, and thus, having proficiency in all skills is better than being a master in one. Tricks of a particular type may be able to transfer into other skill sets, but each is its own. You are only as strong as your weakest link-- this is true in anything from the skills of a single person to the many diverse and varying people in a team or clan that makes it what it is.
What is meant by this in practical JKA combat, is that being great in a particular style (Staff, duals, single, anything) is undoubtedly good. No one can say it is bad. But as with anything, you can't succeed with one skill alone. You must be able to perform with all of them. You need skills in footwork, not just bladework, and skills in parkour and movement, not simply combat. You need skills in tactics, teamwork, dueling-- all these skills are necessary. You don't need to master them all, but you need strength in each. A well-rounded warrior is by far more effective than a specialist in one area alone.
And in the end, when you learn these skills in other areas, you may just find you improve even your greatest skills in some way or another, or have a new perspective on them. Often times, playing as the other side and understanding how they fight, their strengths, and their weaknesses, can teach us how to better defend and fight against them (such as learning to play a staff in order to beat a staff).
"My task before you is this-- Take your greatest weakness, devote effort to it, strengthen it, and I will show you how it shall strengthen your power in the Force."
