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I have not done TCMA weapon for a long time. This clip was filmed almost 40 years ago (1973?).
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I enjoyed the article. Thank you for posting the link. Though the author seems to be in favor of the old school boxing method:
"Our best pugilists were generally the most manly and fair fighters; in appearance the effect of their effective hitting was minimized by the skillful manner in which they did it. The appearance of two unskilled men slugging each other is far more brutal, although they would not do nearly as much execution."
Three pages in, this is a pretty good thread. Lots of great insights.
I'm not big on classical weapons, more into firearms...but whenever I feel like I may find myself in a threatening situation I immediately scan the area for a convenient makeshift weapon.
This situational awareness actually comes into play daily for me now, in an unlikely way. Anyone who has been to east or southeast Asia knows there are dogs everywhere. Each morning when I run I have to deal with packs of dogs trying to get on either side of me and bite my legs.
I don't like running with something in my hand so I've adapted to the situation. I just scan the road ahead for the dogs, when I see a few together I just keep running and watch the shoulder. I always find a good stick, stone or something to grab without breaking stride; by the time I reach the dogs.
I never have to use it either. They know exactly what it means when you have something in your hand and raise it menacingly towards them. They back right off and I drop it when I pass them. If you run empty handed though, you'll have to give one a good soccer kick every now and then.
In using two weapons at once, double broad sword, butterfly sword etc.. so any of you have any tips or go to's for those that have a hard time using both arms seemlessly? I have this block to moving fluidly with two weapons for forms and what not. I find it easier if I am engaged with said weapons in a fight or two man form but single form I seem to lock up. Any of you ever have this frustrating issue?
how can i copy that gif video and share it on FB this is hillarious for tmy sword crew
There is one strategy that I like is to "Push your opponent's weapon to the east, you then attack from the west."
To me, the weapon fight is the same as the open hand fight. When you move in, you want to know where your opponent's wepon is. To be able to touch your wepon on your opponent's weapon when you move in is the same as to touch your leading leg against your opponent'e leading leg. At that particular moment, you can decide whether you feel safe to continue your attack, or you don't feel safe and want to retreat. If you want to continue your attack, you use your weapon to press your opponent's weapon away from your moving path (jam his weapon), you then move in through the opposite direction of his weapon.
I use a method called "mother/son"
If the mother goes somewhere, the son follows.
If the mother catches, the son strikes
If the mother stops, the son goes around.
That sort of thing. It basically teaches the one hand to follow the other and the block/strike, catch strike naturally follows and grows independence in the hands.
Use a striking surface like a Pell (a post to strike at full force with blades, it is wood so it doesn't damages the blades).
Just go slow at first then pick up speed. This is where I feel tai chi's slow motion training comes in handy in learning new movements. In Learning double swords, there are times when you may want to focus on one side, then once you got it down, focus in on the other side. Then finally put them together. This approach I find works well in teaching such movements like figure 8 motions with the double swords (Along with the mother/son method David Jamieson mentioned). Hope this helps.
I reckon I just need to give it time. :) The sad part is, I am ambidextrous and still cant twirl twin blades! :mad: Deep breaths and relax!
Really, you can perform tasks with either hand without one lacking?
Ahhh, I wish. I can write with both hands at the same time, but it has to be the same thing. :p
I tried to make it so I could write my first name with one hand and my last name with the other. Yeah, lol, not so easy. I can train myself to do certain words, but no free writing. When free, it has to be the same thing. And the left side isn't as pretty. I would not consider myself ambidextrous.
FB won't show animated gifs. I think you can post a link to the URl, though.
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As a newbie to the forum I'll add my two cents.
I train eyebrow hight staff, single and double sticks, edged weapons with knife being my favorite, and the Dulo Dulo. I also train with Nunchaku's but they are impractical for street defense. A walking cane is also a great weapon.
IMHO if you train sticks then you are also training knives or short swords and staff training translates to the spear. Training sticks is extremely useful because they can be found nearly everywhere such as in the form of fallen branches in the yard or street, broom/mop handles...etc. Of course it would probably look really funny to wield a mop around to beat somebody about their head, but I'd do it if I had to.
I always thought a walking cane could be practical, since it's something you could actually carry in the street. Still, it's somewhat funny to me to see the cane forms with complex moves, jumps and spins. You got to figure if a guy needs a cane he probably won't be able to move like that. :p
I guess a young guy without an injury can carry a cane, but it's pretty weird unless he has a tux, top hat and monocle to go along with it. Then he's probably just asking to get jumped. :rolleyes:
i have a stick i sometimes take with me when walking the dog, im 6ft and 230 pounds so people tend to not jump me stick or no stick, and with the amount of injuries i have from grappling, MMA and powerlifting i actually need the stick sometimes lol :eek:
And our system has a walking cane form, but to be honest i prefer to use it the same way as my master family style short stick form, lots of basic stabs, full body swings, angles hits and butts/punches with the end section of the stick, simple and effective
...should be up in two months. Stay tuned. ;)
man that sword really compliments your back fat!
I agree with Bernard!
1) Start with large movements performed slowly,
2) Tighten the movements and slowly increase the speed as your muscle memory improves
3) Continue to tighten and increase speed as your skill improves.
I also agree with practicing one had at a time sometimes.
I taught myself to throw the football left handed about 20 years ago. I throw a better spiral left-handed even though I have been throwing a football for about 47 years, but I only throw about 2/3 to 4/5 as far left-handed than right-handed though.
Anything to give you the advantage...that's the essence of traditional..dirty fighting, especially for a little guy like myself.
I think of strange things to use all the time. Today I was walking back in the woods, down a snowmobile trail to my cabin. We get a lot of idiot out of state guys here who will blow by you at 90 mph and not move over at all if your walking along the trail. I've almost been hit, even having moved well off the trail, by inconsiderate out of towners. I think of what would happen if I yelled at some guy or threw something in retaliation and he gets off the sled to rumble.
It's a weird situation, your dressed so heavily, kicks would have to be waist or lower, joint locking is greatly hindered, you got heavy gloves so you lose a little in punching and the dude on the sled has the distinct advantage of having a helmet to take off and clock you on the head with. (Or leave on so you can't hit him in the head.)
Today I had a Gatorade bottle of gas to put on my spark plugs if my sled wouldn't start. I figured I got enough time to open the bottle of gas to throw in my imaginary attackers eyes; and get the glove off my right hand for a follow up punch.
I don't know if I'm paranoid or bored, lol.
I've had idiots swerve right next to me while I was hunting along the trail before. It takes a pretty stupid person to be that disrespectful of a guy with a shotgun. They do that to someone wired a bit looser than me and they might not be found 'til spring. :eek:
Oh well, It's only 'til April. Then they're gone, until the salmon run in the fall...
Next time you're hunting and that happens let a shot off into the ground right after just to make them sheet themselves.
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Eyebrow height Staff, neat!
Rat tail staff nifty.
Watch this... Bo Staff. It's a staff but when you are trying to pick-up a language it seems one might use both languages almost as if thinking they are using the foreign name while wanting the name understood.
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12:43 "Chinese Kung-Fu was preceded by Okinawan Karate."Gene Ching;'Authenticity and Chinese Weapons with Gene Ching' .?. I thought some Chinese people went to Okinawa when it was its own country-and Chinese Artisans taught Empty Hand and original symbol for Kara-te meant Chinese Hand(s). Since Okinawan Chinese Hands came from Chinese, then Okinawan Karate would not precede Chinese Kung-Fu.-Ernie Moore Jr.
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Okinawan Bo Staff Not Good for Shooting Out. Thank you for pointing-out that the Bo staff has a special shape not straight like the Jo-Staff. I am thinking:
1. It is like a lance (as in Jousting) handle--or a lance is half a Bo but with a handle...and pointed :-> -EMJ
2. Okinawan weapons are from farm implements.
3. Carrying water or pales/buckets was done on both sides at once the thick middle was a variation of a yolk like wood piece; as the Brazilian slaves incorporated attacks and defenses in dances as they were allowed to dance, the flatter yoke might have been rounded to still be balanced for grain and baskets and water and stands(perhaps) but also the back/shoulder-perhaps with a padding to soften-not feel the middle ridge when carrying something.-EMJ
4. The middle ridged Bo Staff is Good for ski-skee-thrust move or a short shooting out.-EMJ
5. Samurai attack in groups--the attacker of an Okinawan was most likely a Japanese bladesman--a Bo might be comparable to Samurai short sword --wakasashi, and although shorter than several Long swords--katana, it gave a chance to rotate to deflect and then quickly strike or make powerful controlled short moves fast to get in and hit or hit attackers at different positions around the defender.-Ernie Moore Jr.
6. Half an eyebrow high staff has reach over a dagger or long knife or tanto (not the keemosabee of the Lone Ranger).-EMJ
7. The middle ridge of a Bo allowed for a powerful thrust or minor shooting-out with a reduction in losing good leverage hand positioning of slipping-through the grasp...even with dusty to muddy hands the ridge helped keep the Bo stuck within the grasp on either side.-EMJ
8. In the heat of a fight for Life or to keep from injury, the ridge served as a marker to know how much weapon you had to work with, without looking much as the 5 on a nine keypad had a nub or a typewriter machine got a ridge on keys F and J to help orient by feel.-Ernie Moore Jr.
9 Most well known Japanese weapons that are non-bladed, except Kama-scythe [see both languages-the foreign word and a word to explain that word-EMJ], are Kobujitsu--Okinawan farm things used for weaponry.-Ernie Moore Jr.
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You don't usually see that in Chinese Martial Arts...so-Chinese fight from one end of a staff-they want distance. Okinawan's Bo fight primarily from the middle--they want quick attacks multiple direction. I'm thinking the country has styles of attackers--Japan attackers surround. Chinese attackers spread-out in front.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Sweeping, bumping moves with distance to fend-off, deflect. Or just single or a few opponents initially in front, in China.-EMJ
Short knocking, thrusting moves with slight footwork, to go back and forth, strike then pull-into core for strength--rooted power moves done quickly, in Okinawa.-EMJ
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Shooting out a staff against a Samurai/Ronin is as good as throwing a spear in China--too much of a commitment. If you miss you essentially are weaponless. In Africa and the Americas, and Europe you throw spears/javalin because they attack in groups and you defend in groups with mightbe back-up spears to again throw one. In China they hold on to the end. In China an attackers sword is two and a half feet plus half the attackers arm-jian. In Okinawa a Japanese Samurai attacker has two and a quarter feet but a long handle held close to the hilt for mobility-leverage-flexibility and uses two hands for power but less reach than in China which uses double edged hybrid Rapier-Broadsword.-Ernie Moore Jr.
You don't fight Samurai trained persons. The weapons are weight and length designed for wielding, efficiency, power of force, balance and curved and edged to slice and pierce. If you can grab something you want Short and retainable which is why perhaps one can "flip" Okninawan weapons:bo, sai, nunchaku, tonfa/tuifa. You strong framer-villager extend Too far your staff you are disarmed because you can't hold it after a clash. Because he cuts-off your arms you over extended trying to commit a thrust passed his guard. Because the tip need only be deflected if you hold-on with one hand; he comes-in or you and hold it it is too heavy at extension for one's grip. And if you extend with two hands you need to be able to pull it back to block of he passes your extension attack.-Ernie Moore Jr.
So as I see-it, Okinawans cannot afford the luxury to Shoot-out a Bo.-Ernie Moore Jr.
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Might call that a Snake-Tongue Halberd. Or Snake-Tongue Spade.-Ernie Moore Jr.
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Squirrel has moves using a broadsword close to what you were mentioning Gene More Knightly, less WuShu...it Even had Runes on it [I do not think they made actual words] But here's this: Ernie Moore Jr.'s Kung-Fu (attempt), Squirrel: Squirrel's Broadsword
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