Physical Bearing in Martial Arts

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“Generally speaking, it is essential to create your ordinary bearing the posture you use in martial arts, and produce the bearing you are using in martial arts your ordinary bearing.”

In terms of physical appearance, your face shouldn’t be tilted downward, upward, or on the side. Your gaze should be steady. Do not wrinkle your forehead, but make a furrow between your eyebrows. Keep your eyes unmoving, and try not to blink. Narrow your eyes. The idea is to keep a serene expression on your face, nose straight, chin slightly ahead.
There have been studies where criminals choose which people they would target based on their appearance while walking down sidewalks. The choose those who seemed timid, weak, and unsure of themselves. There have been studies done on successful executives, and often they’re more confident and carry themselves as such.

This illustrates that even if you never need to use your martial arts training to defend yourself, the confidence you gain and how you carry yourself because of that training will keep you safe without you ever knowing it. That same training might help you succeed in other areas of your life also, and that’s a double win, or perhaps even a triple or quadruple win, as I think there are many advantages of training in the martial arts.
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There is a teaching called ‘tightening the wedge,’ which means that the abdomen is braced from the scabbard of the brief sword in such a manner that the belt does not loosen.
Keep training, and bear in mind, as Musashi said, your bodily bearing ought to be give careful consideration.

• Miyamoto Musashi

Broadly , it is essential to create your ordinary bearing the posture you use in martial arts, and make the bearing you are using in martial arts your ordinary bearing. This is supposed to be give careful consideration.”

Among the advantages of studying martial arts is the confidence one gains. And that confidence is often portrayed through better look and bearing. Walking tall, head up, and not scared of the word. But it’s not an exaggerated boastful look of a braggart or bully, but a calm confidant look of the man who trains and knows who they are, but doesn’t have to put themselves above others to feel important.
The back of the neck should be straight, with strength focused in the nape. Feeling the entire body from the shoulders down as you can, lower the shoulders, keep the spine straight, and don’t allow the buttocks stick out. Focus power in the lower legs, from the knees down through the tips of the feet. Tense the abdomen so that the waist doesn’t bend.
Someone ’s physical bearing is important in everything they do. We all make initial judgments of others based on appearance and posture. Someone can be considered passive and weak, or strong and confident, based on appearance and bearing. And while judgments might be inaccurate, often they’re not. It’s beneficial for security reasons, in addition to being successful in business and other ventures to have a positive, strong, and likable look and bearing. This is not new.