[King Kabuki]

why do you want other schools to train like you do?

you want to expand your business? So does that mean your the instructor?

I dont understand this desire to monopolize...
unless all you care about is domination, power and money.

Hey Vampire,

As the Moderator who pulled for this section to get started here on Sherdog let's not be too quick to Judge here.

TD has made quality posts in other forum areas (which you could have seen by checking his posts in his profile that he's no spammer), and if he has ways to contribute to the continued existence of the W&T section then he's more than welcome to post them as long as he's not Advertising/Spamming indiscriminantly.

This place needs consistency and people who really are interested in the Weapon arts. Peregrine often links to Dog Brothers sites and gives information on their behalf (I'd love to have some members here) and TD is more than welcome to do the same so this place can grow.

[YeahBee]

Originally Posted by Gregster

My older bro used to do something similar, only using homemade weapons with the striking surfaces formed out of cloth-wrapped foam. It was called "Dagorhir" if I recall, and was done out in the woods dressed like D&D - type guys. Nerdy, and damned fun.

I must admit I was once one of those nerds, it is really funny those kinda LIVE RPG'sWe even had crossbows and bows of dif sorts. We had some sort of Body points system that said that you can take x amount of blows to the body etc. Although our weapons were made of foam like the ones in the picture we had thin sticks inside them so they would be more stable, therefor we didn't allow spearing/thrusting attacks. LoL my favourite was a hockley stick made into a doubleedged axe, that hurt like h*ll

[Team Dragonfire]

god.... id love to see my guys out on the field in something like that... we have had a few large team fights against other schools and they were an absolute blast.

[peregrine]

nice clip.

there are several groups doing this type of thing, now why don't you step it up and fight with rattan to complement your padded weapon sparring.? i also believe continuing to fight will elevate your game more and not point spar, who knows what will kill you or knock you out, train to win, not train to hit first then stop.

learn from the pain of being hit with real sticks, then go back and spar with the padded, it may change your outlook.

[Tim Chan]

Originally Posted by peregrine

nice clip.

there are several groups doing this type of thing, now why don't you step it up and fight with rattan to complement your padded weapon sparring.? i also believe continuing to fight will elevate your game more and not point spar, who knows what will kill you or knock you out, train to win, not train to hit first then stop.

learn from the pain of being hit with real sticks, then go back and spar with the padded, it may change your outlook.

real sticks are pretty brutal though, unless you have body armor. padded weapons can still hurt like a bitch.

[Aaron Turner]

I'd love to give this a try. I was the British junior Kendo champ for 2 years and have always wanted to test my skill out on other weapon forms. I had a go against a guy with a Nag once but he wasn't very good lol.
Only problem with it I have is a lot of the foam weapons seem a little light and flimsy, although a Shinai isn't the heaviest thing in the world lol.

[ix-ir]

To help the sport develop people need to design safe weapons that offer more realism, the flailing in the linked video shows how little relation to real weapons those foam ones have, real weapons have mass and momentum which makes their use much deeper than the desperate waving for a scoring strike I see in the video. Some mass gives a cleaner differentiation between a strike and parry, you can't instantly recover or easily over-extend. Fighters should also lose points for overbalancing as many in the video seemed to do.

Are shields allowed in this system of fighting?

[6FeetAbove]

lol at the cane fighting...grandpa...
but if you really want practical weapon and knife combat go to basic training for the marines.
Or i think theres a program some schools teach called "F.I.G.H.T." which is some pakistani knife combat crap i dunno

[Chesten_Hesten]

The training knives shown here:







Along with standard fencing mask and glove make for fine knife sport. Perhaps more realistic to what you might run into on the street nowadays compared to spears and such.

[JKDmop]

The cane and knife training looked pretty cool, I have a hard time seeing the practicality of the others. Those foam-flex weapons are pretty pricey and when you start adding in the other gear it is one expensive hobby. But pretty good stuff compared to most weapons training out there.