Knife Fighting: Martial Arts or just plainly dangerous?

13 Oct 2006

Quote by tallnhairy
know in Aikido we use wooden weapons purely for help with ballence, control, and reactions. We also learn to disarm with them..

...and the forms as created by Mr Uesheba (in particular Shiho Nage) are actually based on sword play (drawing, striking and defence in that case).
Goose, np, bit of an anorak in this area ;) redface

13 Oct 2006

Origami not a martial art? Come on. Have you ever had a paper cut? They smart!
I fence foil epee and sabre and have told people from time to time that it is only knife fighting for toffs.
Loved the ninja story. lol

Mr Miyaki was a bonsai grower remember and he could kick ass.

13 Oct 2006

The ninjas used to advertise their class with a sign in chinese written on a bedsheet pinned to the outside wall. :shock:
We would have taken the piss out of them but they had bigger swords than us and we were all wimps biggrin

18 Oct 2006

practicing some form of weapon martial arts is kinda cool, i've been training for some years now not in weapon stuff but in various martial arts, one some weapon stuff krabbi krabbong there one for you guys to look up.
But cant stress this enough dont try an dissarm some bum with a knife ttrying to hurt u despite what your sensie might try and teach its not a pretty sight.

18 Oct 2006

Imho to aquire books that show martial arts techniques such as knife and weapon skills other than disarming or self defence, I think you should have to show your grade certificate to the seller in specialised shops only. The grade should be set high at maybe 2nd Kue (sp?) Karate level and the equivalent... (Second brown belt and one grade away from Dan (black belt))... this way the peson will have had to train for several years before having access to such materials.
But we all know the world doesn't work like that so it's glamourised, glossed and placed on shelves to attract anyone with an interest because it makes good business and business at times can have few morals in the quest for sales.

18 Oct 2006

Quote by SteveClarke
...and the forms as created by Mr Uesheba (in particular Shiho Nage) are actually based on sword play (drawing, striking and defence in that case).
Goose, np, bit of an anorak in this area ;)

Very True

and my sword technique helped my Aikido a lot...

Quote by clipsuit
practicing some form of weapon martial arts is kinda cool, i've been training for some years now not in weapon stuff but in various martial arts, one some weapon stuff krabbi krabbong there one for you guys to look up.
But cant stress this enough dont try an dissarm some bum with a knife ttrying to hurt u despite what your sensie might try and teach its not a pretty sight.

I have a simple strategy in combat.. I run away. Too many dead hero's. Still sometimes you can be cornered, or people you are responsible for may be in danger precluding running (kids, wife, etc.)
Next time this happens I will now have a chance to defend myself. (Dont use a phonebox to call the Police to an attack, you cant get out and run away fast enough. Trust me on this) You never want to face a knife, or worse still carry one since it wont help and is more likely to escalate something and get you killed.
Far better to avoid the situation in stage one, talk things down if you missed the signs, and damn well run if all else fails. But sometimes you may have to defend yourself against a knife. Any training in getting out of the way is better than none. However 'clipsuit' is dead right you are far better off never using martial arts except in the dojo to keep fit :)

18 Oct 2006

I can understand all the concerns about this and I agree with them in theory, but in principle not at all.
I'm always concerned when people start to ban books or make them inaccessible to people as I truly believe that once you do it for one category, it won't be long before others are included and then where does it stop?
Jas
XXX

18 Oct 2006

Quote by Jas-Tim
I can understand all the concerns about this and I agree with them in theory, but in principle not at all.
I'm always concerned when people start to ban books or make them inaccessible to people as I truly believe that once you do it for one category, it won't be long before others are included and then where does it stop?
Jas
XXX

Very true, I suppose in some ways it is like magic books. They tell you hows to do something, but that a long way from really being able to do it. Still while I am against bans generally it is a shame some people push the limits so much and somewhere there is a line... (Can we have a fuzzy line?)

18 Oct 2006

Some books need to be censored. Come on would you want to see the book 'how to make bombs with the sole purpose of maining and killing innocent people'.... no, why? because it's not ethical. It is up to people what they read but with some of the cretins and downright evil people being bred into the gene pool I'm all for 1984 style nuetering of scumbags, let alone banning a couple of books. ;)
There is a line to be drawn and athough I'm all for freedom of speech it's getting to the point I don't want too much to be said on certain subjects that teach people how to maime, kill and injur other people for fun.
;)
Mary Whitehouse Jnr. x x x