Walsh Ben. Martial Arts and Nature

Ben Walsh, University of Vermont, 2007. — 70 p.This project examines the relationship between martial arts and nature. It looks at how various martial arts describe nature, how they use nature as a teaching tool, how they imitate natural phenomena and animals in their physical techniques, how they teach their practitioners to
physically interact with nature and how they believe and teach the mind and spirit should be influenced by and interact with nature