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the spirit of the tiger, however, doesn’t come from the form or the technique, it comes from the study and the spiritual discipline – the removal of the ego and the channeling of a greater force through art the body. you don’t just emulate the tiger, you become the tiger. that art is martial art. however, you can practice the techniques of the art without the meditation or the spirituality and make art great use of them, without ever becoming the tiger. that would be fighting technique. furthermore, sport fighting puts all sorts of unnatural restrictions on the art, for the necessity (as you pointed out) of keeping the competitors alive, or in the case of some sports, to facilitate scoring. this is true of many sports based on real martial arts, such as boxing, tae kwon do, and judo.
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