i gave up on reading it

i congratulate you, i read everything

You "gave up" reading a 5 minute article-wannabe?

Your gong fu is pathetic. show me your toribash!
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So toribash is like breathing?
Makes sense I suck at it then, being an asthmatic.

see you all in the hall of shame

Everyone please keep on topic

I don't think this thread warrants being shamed but if this keeps up (no proper cnc) then I'll have to close it

This is where it gets trippy. you can learn a lot about your self, your health, and your breath just by PAYING ATTENTION TO IT (breath[ing]).

Asthma sucks, i dont know what to tell you about that, except that my "unofficially adopted" mom and her daughters have it, but they push through and do quite well in spite of it. they dont let it hold them back.

Hell, i could still learn a thing or two about breathing from them.

But the fact is, if you dont put attention to it, what do you know about it?


the four forces of Toribash (Hold, Extend, Contract, Relax) Perfectly reflect the four phases of breath (Retain/Deprive, Inhale, Exhale, Automate)

And the fact is that your body operates from breath. Toribash is a human body simulation of sorts.
Even in Judo, "random" and crazy events take place that reflect how breath can get "trapped" in the momentum of your body, like when you "magically" decap yourself in mid air, or get split in half from whipping around the wrong way.

The more you play, the more attention you put into your subtle moves and inertial manipulation, the more focused you become.

Are you conscious of this mental martial art?
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If awareness and focus and attention are wibbles whining, then shame away, Complexity.



Yeah, i think that is where this is going though, doesnt look like anyone wants to put any attention into the synchronicity of fours

I understand people get philosophical and theoretical at times, but damn man... you're taking it to the next level. While reading this I felt as if you were writing thinks you didn't understand. I don't mean to offend you in any way of course, but I just didnt understand the whole "toribash is breathing". I like your creativity though, would like to see more of it.

well this one is a tricky torqued contortion about a thought. The trick is to guide you to the thought that i cant give you, not the thought itself.

You think you follow that?

It has more to do with Four than it has to do with breath, but the game itself is about a simulated body. humanoid, human like.

Examine your own relations to the movements in toribash, and examine your own breath, more than the game.

Vety much a symbolic relation, more metaphorical than literal or similar.

Hence an Art.

i get the 'toribash is breathing thing'
he meant that toribash breathes by doing : holding or relaxing
which means
holding : inhales
relaxing : exhales
3rd cycle is motion i think?
i think what i said is right ?
you can correct me.

bare bones of it, you kind of understand its cyclical.

The representations, game-wise, are purely metaphorical. you cant breathe into toribash.

But you can examine how the breath operates in your own body and figure out how the hold/relax/contract/expand relationships REALLY ARE FOR REAL.

Which is what makes toribash a good primer for this.

Both are an Art.