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 Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:18 pm
Marty Nozz phi one zero I trained quite a bit with a jo and katana in my aikido days. The shihan of our organization really stressed weapons training. He emphasised that every movement in aikido, even in empty-handed techniques, was based on weapons forms. More recently, my weapons training has been in kali, which trains in just about every melee weapon imaginable. The old dual-wielding-obsessed D&D geek in me is especially partial to the two-stick forms that kali is best known for. biggrin My cousin and I pratice it a bit. There was a fantasy con in town where they got out the padded weapons and played around. Me and my buddy smoked the Lord of the Rings fan club. Good ol' kali. That's cool. One of these days I want to make a couple of lightsaber hilts (which you can do with materials from you friendly neighborhood hardware store for about $30 -- which is actually how they made the props in the original trilogy), fit them with appropriately-colored foam padded blades, and have one of my MA buddies dress up as a Jedi with me and go to a sci-fi convention to impress the hell out of everyone with realistic, full-contact lightsaber fights. It's a fairly common sight at conventions, but not with people who actually know what they're doing. blaugh
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:18 pm
I agree with who ever said to start out with a staff. Mike-sempai says it is a basic weapon and that you can adapt the bo-staff skills to other weapons.
mind you i only konw a bit of bo-staff, but that's my thoughts. heh, i always thought symetars(sp?) (as in Drizzt, from icewind dale by r.a. salvadore) would be cool. lol
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:28 am
Dragonwarrior_Keltyr I agree with who ever said to start out with a staff. Mike-sempai says it is a basic weapon and that you can adapt the bo-staff skills to other weapons. mind you i only konw a bit of bo-staff, but that's my thoughts. heh, i always thought symetars(sp?) (as in Drizzt, from icewind dale by r.a. salvadore) would be cool. lol Scimitar? A chinese broadsword is very similar to one of those, and a wushu sword is the same shape but floppy
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:13 pm
Dragonwarrior_Keltyr I agree with who ever said to start out with a staff. Mike-sempai says it is a basic weapon and that you can adapt the bo-staff skills to other weapons. mind you i only konw a bit of bo-staff, but that's my thoughts. heh, i always thought symetars(sp?) (as in Drizzt, from icewind dale by r.a. salvadore) would be cool. lol that was me** xd and now sense i posted my last post i am on double swords witch is aswome!!!!!!! xd
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:02 am
A weapon of interest that I had training before consist of the jo. A japanese short staff that involves the techniques of the sweeping naginata, the slashing katana, and the stabbing spear. Usually popular in aikido dojos as well as other schools of kubudo.
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:04 am
Yes, quite an impressive and versatile weapon, the jo. Despite it's fairly harmless appearance.
It is interesting to know that the renowned swordsman Miyamoto Musashi faced his only defeat at the hands of an opponent he had defeated and spared, who this time was wielding a jo. Of course, he was spared as well after his defeat.
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:21 am
JoshuaKenzo Yes, quite an impressive and versatile weapon, the jo. Despite it's fairly harmless appearance. It is interesting to know that the renowned swordsman Miyamoto Musashi faced his only defeat at the hands of an opponent he had defeated and spared, who this time was wielding a jo. Of course, he was spared as well after his defeat. Yeah I like that story. I like the way the guy that got beat the first time went away and practised and persevered and created a whole new style based about the jo specifically for beating the long sword and miyamoto musashi. Didn't they both claim they lost the second bout? And the jo guy trained under the big MM afterwards
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:53 am
DarklingGlory JoshuaKenzo Yes, quite an impressive and versatile weapon, the jo. Despite it's fairly harmless appearance. It is interesting to know that the renowned swordsman Miyamoto Musashi faced his only defeat at the hands of an opponent he had defeated and spared, who this time was wielding a jo. Of course, he was spared as well after his defeat. Yeah I like that story. I like the way the guy that got beat the first time went away and practised and persevered and created a whole new style based about the jo specifically for beating the long sword and miyamoto musashi. Didn't they both claim they lost the second bout? And the jo guy trained under the big MM afterwards I don't know, I wasn't there.
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:48 am
JoshuaKenzo DarklingGlory JoshuaKenzo Yes, quite an impressive and versatile weapon, the jo. Despite it's fairly harmless appearance. It is interesting to know that the renowned swordsman Miyamoto Musashi faced his only defeat at the hands of an opponent he had defeated and spared, who this time was wielding a jo. Of course, he was spared as well after his defeat. Yeah I like that story. I like the way the guy that got beat the first time went away and practised and persevered and created a whole new style based about the jo specifically for beating the long sword and miyamoto musashi. Didn't they both claim they lost the second bout? And the jo guy trained under the big MM afterwards I don't know, I wasn't there. Lol, so how do you know it happened? O.o Did ya watch a vid on the net? Or did you find it out of this guy down the pub who heard it of a friend that knew the unkle of the guy what dun it? Cant argue with evidence like that 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:05 am
DarklingGlory JoshuaKenzo DarklingGlory JoshuaKenzo Yes, quite an impressive and versatile weapon, the jo. Despite it's fairly harmless appearance. It is interesting to know that the renowned swordsman Miyamoto Musashi faced his only defeat at the hands of an opponent he had defeated and spared, who this time was wielding a jo. Of course, he was spared as well after his defeat. Yeah I like that story. I like the way the guy that got beat the first time went away and practised and persevered and created a whole new style based about the jo specifically for beating the long sword and miyamoto musashi. Didn't they both claim they lost the second bout? And the jo guy trained under the big MM afterwards I don't know, I wasn't there. Lol, so how do you know it happened? O.o Did ya watch a vid on the net? Or did you find it out of this guy down the pub who heard it of a friend that knew the unkle of the guy what dun it? Cant argue with evidence like that 3nodding I got it from a book written by a guy that trained under a fellow that had a friend who knew a powerful psychic named Bob. whee There is no real record of Miyamoto's battles, so we cannot always separate fact from fiction.
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:54 am
JoshuaKenzo I got it from a book written by a guy that trained under a fellow that had a friend who knew a powerful psychic named Bob. whee There is no real record of Miyamoto's battles, so we cannot always separate fact from fiction. Yeah I know, was only messin xd
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:52 am
Hehehe. Actually the story of Muso Gonnosuke defeating Musashi on the second time they fought was a story shared by word of mouth and there were records that stated that Musashi was convincingly beaten. Although the record doesn't state what Gonnuske used to defeat Musashi. Thinking about it, most of the techniques found in the Jo kata 31 focused on how to counter the sword attack from the front and the back and surprisingly it shows how to defend and attack a sword user on all 8 angles! eek Anyway. This I've taken from the book Titled: Jo: The Art of the Japanese Short Staff. The problem with the book I have is that iuts so old that the author's name is unreadable. But I consider the book as a treasure thopugh.
Musashi's victory with Gonnuseke happened when the arrogant Gonnuseke attacked Musashi without warning. Musashi responded by using an unfinished wood
he's using to make a bow. Theis second fight didn't state how it actually happened. It just stated here in the book that Musashi was convincingly beaten...
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:20 am
Unfortunately, there are very few sources that are accurate and many that are contradicting. To know what really happened, we would have had to be present at the time.
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:18 am
yiou can't go wrong with a flal there isjust some thing so cool about a wepon you can make with metal scraps rusty nails and string
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:45 am
Uggae yiou can't go wrong with a flal there isjust some thing so cool about a wepon you can make with metal scraps rusty nails and string Learn to use a spellchecker. *translates like the spelling nazi he is* "You can't go wrong with a flail. There is just something that's so cool about a weapon you can make with metal scraps, rusty nails and string." Seriously, kids. Don't fork over written language. We like a display of correctly spelled English and skillful use of words. It's a means for us to measure your character and how far you will go to place yourself as someone who earns respect by putting even but a little effort into it. Everyone makes a typo once in a while, or misspells a word. It's the idea of bothering that will earn you credit. If you can't bother to write anywhere near readible, how can we take any of you seriously? This isn't addressed at you alone, Uggae, I can't stress this enough with everyone that forsakes the well-written language and uses unidentifiable perversions of what it should be. I apologize sincerely for this post, but I would like this guild I've grown to like so much to remain civilized. At least verbally. whee
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