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Practicing with sharps

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Sir William:
Sort of like live rounds used in a field exercise?  I see what you are saying...I suppose it is a natural advancement in fencing to take it there. 

Thorsteinn:
On Thursday I was working some winding and grappling techniques with my student. I had a super hard time explaining why you didn't get close to the other guy and that you HAD to solve for the sword first & always as well as try and finish the guy with your weapon and not your fists or feet. He has a 7th Dan in TKD and a 3rd Dan in Hapkido and has faced knife weilders in the street before, but explaining how very damned lethal swords were in an unarmoured fight might have been better helped by using a sharp. Heck a metal blunt would have been more useful (we have his shinai only which are less than optimum).

Some of the stuff from here was included in the lesson.

Sir James A:

--- Quote from: Sir William on 2016-05-27, 14:17:42 ---Sort of like live rounds used in a field exercise?  I see what you are saying...I suppose it is a natural advancement in fencing to take it there. 

--- End quote ---

Much like that, yes. As far as I know, there's never a point where you are shooting live rounds at each other... nor in any exercises with sharps should you be actively trying to connect or injure each other. A simple zorn-zorn bind with a winding that doesn't begin a thrust is enough to give you that "oh @#$!!" moment that feders don't have.

Lord Dane:
Great videos. :)

Joshua Santana:
From this discussion on practicing with sharps, all I can say is that when I imagine training with sharps, this is what comes to my mind.



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