Fae and Kane threw him an odd look.
"Hm? Do you disagree with what I said?" Rui raised an eyebrow to their reaction.
"No.." Kane mumbled.
"I agree with it, I think it's a nuanced take, but it's something I heard from my grandmother, it's odd to hear that from someone with no formal training." She stared at him with a hint of puzzlement
"It's just weird because sometimes you seem clueless about basic Martial Art, but the next second turn into an expert." Kane laughed awkwardly.
Rui shrugged. He, of course, knew the truth. He appeared clueless sometimes because he genuinely was clueless, Martial Art was greatly different from martial arts in many ways. Yet they shared many underlying traits on a broader scale for a large portion of his expertise to be relevant. Things that were pletely alien to Earth such as techniques like Outer Convergence, he was ignorant about. But the general advantages and disadvantages of styles and the determinant variables that determined the oute between two different styles and approaches did not change, here he was an unparalleled theoretical expert on these topics, the likes of which he doubted anybody but the most experiences Masters and Sages could rival.
Still, he didn't let it get to his head. Fact of the matter was that he was ignorant, he had a lot of learning to do before he could hold himself as an expert on the field like he did in his previous life. And that would take a long time. Not that he minded, the journey was half the destination. Every time he entertained thought of his Martial Path, he would grow excited from the bottom of his heart
"Well, as long as you know." Kane shrugged.
"For what it's worth, I do think an all-rounder style would suit you more than a hyper-specialized style especially because of your resourceful and tactical approach. But that means you'll have to bee a jack of all trades, but a master of none."
"I'm fine with that. The greater versatility and flexibility are worth the trade." Rui replied. This he was sure of.
Rui often likened bat sports with artistry. There were several parallels between them. A good painting was born of three things; The necessary tools, the artist's proficiency with those tools and the manner in which the artist applied his tools and proficiency to paint the vision he sought after. Another analogy that Rui had conceived was that of a surgery.
A perfect surgery most certainly needed the appropriate tools and instruments, as well as a surgeon who was proficient in using those tools and also; a surgeon who knew what operations needed to be performed in order to obtain the desired oute.
bat and Martial Art were no different, in a way. The tools of a fighter were that of his body, his limbs, his torso, his head and every cell in his body. The higher the quality of the tools, the more that could be acplished with them. Obtaining high quality tools was the foundation of Martial Art. A powerful, capable body was fundamental to the framework of bat in both Gaea and Earth. Next; the proficiency of those tools was analogous to the techniques employed in bat.
These techniques were nothing more than means and ways to operate the body in order to efficiently and effectively acplish a set of tasks and actions, this enpassed both accuracy and precision of movements
And finally, the application of the tools and techniques. Using the right move at the right time.
An extremely important aspect of bat. What did it matter if one possessed the body of a god, and the movements of a machine if one used the absolute worst move at any given time? It didn't, such a person would lose to another with bad tools and techniques, but great application.
Currently, Rui was closer to the latter. A lifetime of research into mid-bat analysis and judgement, a lifetime of research into probability of success of tactics applied in various scenarios with carefully constrained and controlled variables.
This was something of immense utility in Gaea and Rui possessed it in spades.
This was why he was likely to pick an all-rounder Martial Art. They were more versatile and flexible pared to other Martial Art, their only downside was that they were very tactically intensive, meaning, of the three aspects of bat mentioned prior; tools, proficiency and application. All-rounder styles required much higher quality of application pared to other styles.
Thus, it was very suited to Rui, whose strongest advantage was his tactical application.
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