I was forever known as Sleeping Dragon on other forums. It has to do with a man trying to reach his full potential.
I changed it to Dragon for my off-roading forums for simplicity sake.
Dragon (of course) was taken on XBox Live, so I was in a pickle to come up with new name so I didn't need to use xxXXDRAGON973640387XXxx.
At the age of 15 I began taking the martial arts. It started with Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido, but grew from there until I was proficient in Shotokan Karate and Hakko Ryu Jujitsu. A large part of the martial arts is something called Tai Sabaki, which is the spacing and movement between two opponents; a rhythm if you will. If you think of it, spacing and movement between opponents is much more important (as is balance) than an entire arsenal of strikes, throws, and binds. If the former is not there, the latter is useless. Bear with me. I'm getting to the point. ...I promise. :)
Soul Calibur matches are not too entirely different when it comes to spacing. There is an "in and out" flow between combatants that, oddly enough, mimics the way bamboo blows in the wind. It gusts one direction only to fade back and lean the other, before the wind drives it forward again. If you ever see tall grass or bamboo blown in a heavy wind you will get what I am saying. At times it almost lays completely down, but it never breaks. It just rises and starts to flow in and out again. :)
There have been martial art schools (one Kendo school in particular) named after the willow because of it's foundational strength but also it's ability to bend and flow. Had I opend my own school, it would have been "Take Kaze Ryu", or "School of the Bamboo Wind".
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