[quote=@KoL]
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Just saying that I'm not arguing with neither of you. I was just saying that people tend to exaggerate  Musashi's skill with the sword when in truth he was a scoundrel more or less comparable to Han Solo. He was good, that's a fact, but in the end what won good battles was scumbag trickery.

It's hard to deny it when his book on combat strategy is literally just a collection of waits to cheat. Out may be efficient, but morally right... that's a whole other ball. game
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Actually his book on combat strategy is a book on combat strategy, and though it covers primarily swordsmanship, it can be applied to many other Ways. It covers philosophy as much as technique, but also stresses you consider factors like time of day, position, environment, psychological condition, etc. If you pull up most other books on strategy, they'll actually say similar things. I have a copy right next to me if you'd like to hear passages; none of it concerns cheating.

In Kojiro's case he didn't even ambush, it was a head-on duel. Musashi came in via rowboat; Kojiro saw him coming, but Musashi was the better swordsman; he kept cool, whittled an oar, and beat Kojiro to death.