Study of the Circles

True education begins with learning to educate oneself.

The Five Circles within NC5 are not fixed lessons, ranks, or compulsory stages. They are structured fields of exploration.

Each circle represents a principle. Each principle can be studied, practiced, tested, and revisited.

NC5 does not function as a linear curriculum. There is no single starting point and no imposed sequence. A practitioner may enter where interest or need arises. The circles serve as orientation — not instruction manuals, but frameworks for self-study.

In line with the idea that true education begins with educating oneself, the platform encourages observation, experimentation, reflection, and responsibility. Challenges are invitations, not assignments. Study pages are references, not doctrines.

You may approach the circles in different ways:

- As technical refinement within NC5 practice
- As philosophical study alongside another martial art
- As cross-training inspiration for different weapons or disciplines
- As personal development through structured reflection

The circles are designed to be revisited. What appears simple at one stage may reveal depth at another. Insight grows through repetition, experience, and changing perspective. NC5 therefore offers a compass rather than a path. Direction remains in the hands of the practitioner. Whether you train within NC5 or follow another discipline, the circles remain open. They exist not to limit practice, but to deepen it.