Talk:Kurai Jack Jade/@comment-4773581-20140126162803/@comment-4773581-20140127081351

Not saying something isn't the same as not implying it. You're still implying it, too, as rhythm is most definitely not as easy to decipher as"clicking your tongue when they move", and simply knowing the tricks behind it doesn't suddenly grant you a deep and universal understanding of it in its entirety. If it was, then fights between experienced fighters would invariably boil down to which one has more stamina, as both would be so in tune with the other's rhythm that they simply didn't get hit until their gas started to get low, at which point they wouldn't be able to keep up with what they wanted to do and would start getting trounced.

What you've told us of his actual personality is very little, and the little you've told us is extremely vague at best. He has a strong sense of justice, he respects his men, he doesn't like racists, and hates to lose, which is a very normal thing for any human being to hate. So what? That doesn't tell me what kind of person he is. Is he constantly angry behind his calm disposition? Is he actually a cheery sugarball of sunshine lollipops and rainbows? Is he a mopey and depressed sort of guy? Is he a brooding emo? Is he a pervert with a sense of chivalry? Is he arrogant and narcissistic behind that mask? Is he really just a meek and submissive guy that's putting on a facade of toughness? Tell me what he is instead of vaguely hinting at what he may or may not might possibly be perhaps maybe.

By Noppera-bo I mean someone that doesn't have a face at all.

For starters, that kind of training is generalized and is meant for teaching soldiers how to follow military procedure and how to use the weapons the military gives them effectively. In RWBY we've seen that people have a lot more freedom with weapon selection than the military IRL, and that means more varied methods of weapon usage. There's also the fact that hands-on physical training would be far more practical for the RWBYverse, as that is infinitely easier to personalize to the trainee if it needs to be, which is especially important when the trainees have weapons that, most likely, function almost completely different from one another, not to mention the fact that they're supposed to be training to fight the Grimm, which would generally have the advantage of ambushes and reinforcements, which a preset program can only convay so well. Basically, it'd be kind of like using a driving simulator to teach people how to drive a vehicle, regardless of what that vehicle was, and regardless of whether they would be using it for racing, as part of their job, or for personal use. They'd definitely learn something, but they wouldn't be learning what's best for them to be learning.