Originally posted by yenhoi What are “traditional weapons”?
Like swords and staffs and crossbows?
Yep, these days anybody can go online or walk into a MA shop pick up a weapon and a video on how to use it.
While I like the easier access to the info and goods, I am still somehow split in my Opinion if it is a good thing.
Personally, I feel you should be given/sold a weapon by your Sifu when you are ready to train with it.
Or only be able to buy one with a cert from your Sifu or similar.
Im a big fan of flexible weapons.
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I like flexible wapons too,
Learned to use a few.
BTW, I doubt if the attacker in that article went through proper training with his weapon or even attendet a MA school.
The trouble is, you can’t set any good guidelines for something like that. What’s to stop someone from making up a recommedation from an imaginary sifu? You’d need to have all the MA instructors in the world registered with a recognised body.
That ain’t gonna happen.
This is really no different to some nutcase shooting someone randomly or stabbing them with a pocket knife. You can’t control the inanimate object doing the damage. You have to control the people not to be such ruthless idiots. Obviously, sometimes you’re still going to get an idiot.
Look at Columbine in America and Port Arthur in Australia. There’s two countries with drastically different gun ownership laws but very similar tragedies. Of course, that sort of thing is much more common in the US, but that’s a whole different thread!
Originally posted by Serpent
[B]The trouble is, you can’t set any good guidelines for something like that. What’s to stop someone from making up a recommedation from an imaginary sifu? You’d need to have all the MA instructors in the world registered with a recognised body.
That ain’t gonna happen.[/B]
Actually it is happening in quiet a few countries already.
All you would need is a background check of Sifu name and school in a national register of MA schools.
You open a school you get registered as a MA teaching business/Institution.
Foolproof, no, nothing is.
Why worry about the WHOLE world, no weapons sold to tourists.
Over here we got membership cards for Dojo’s/Kwoon’s which reflect if your memberhsip is up to date(actively training) or not.
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Another advanatage of getting your weapons via your instructor would be quality control of said equipment.
I have seen some nasty accidents involving cheap or badly serviced gear.
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I have. The problem is that these weapons are available from too many non MA sources. The majority of live bladed katanas are sold to people who don’t do MA. These are people who’ve seen Highlander and Blade and think it would be cool to have one.
Originally posted by Ben Gash I have. The problem is that these weapons are available from too many non MA sources. The majority of live bladed katanas are sold to people who don’t do MA. These are people who’ve seen Highlander and Blade and think it would be cool to have one.
I think it would be pretty silly to register MA’ists and their fancy swords. All objects are weapons, if they cant get a katana to kill you with, they will use something else.
Weapons dont cause the problems, stupid people do.
Get rid of stupid people, shoot them into the sun once a year or something. Old people too.
I agree with cow on this.
Weapons should only be made available through the sifu/school.
Because this took place in the U.K the goverment here are famous for their knee jerk reation banning the offending item.
Remember the big fuss over “Devil Dogs” the pitbull? Irresponsible owners let their dogs attack and maim people.THe end result? the All pitbull owners had to have their dogs catrated/sterelized and registered.So once the last dog dies theoretically no more pitbulls.Everyone suffered .
The same could be applied to hand guns.
Some nut runs riot through a school and kill kids with a number of handguns.
i don’t intend to make light of that situation it’s just too terrible for words
But the goverment leaps off the deepend and bans all handguns over a certain calibre.Even in registered gun clubs.The situation got so bad that at one point olympic competitors in certain calibre divisions may not have been able to compete because they are not allowed to own the gun.
HOw long before they latch onto MA weapons?
It won’t be the “nut” who suffers because as it has already been pointed out they’ll just find another way hurt people.No, it will be the MA practitioner who loses out on an integral part of their training because they cannot obtain the weapons to train with.
All we can do is make it as difficult as possible for anyone outside of the MA community to get these weapons.
I may be mistaken here, but aren’t MA weapons illegal to possses outside of a school in California and Maryland? I thought I saw a news article about the legislation in Maryland a few months ago.
Yeah, I read the article. That’s pretty scary. My recommendation is that whether it be a sword, a stick, a wrench, a beer bottle or a chair, block the arm, not the weapon.
