As a generalist Kenjutsu practitioner of Kendo (12 years) and Iaido (15), I liken a lot of Hiro's combat techniques to the theories presented versus most of my actual experience in sparring and matches irl mostly because of how vastly different RP combat tends to go. As such I find it does allow me to step back and ignore realism knowing how dull it really can be ending a combat it an average of two blows, it also doesn't lend itself well to anything too fun with person to person interaction or blending with other RPers. I personally find even as I come in to combat I'm less... "gritty" than most sustaining only one or two actual wounds (substantial or no) versus the beaten, battered, and shredded many others I've interacted with tend to emulate.
