i remember a tourney i went to with some friends. one of my friends was performing his kwan dao set for a few judges, he messed up in the middle and just freestyled the rest of the form. completely made up.
he got a perfect score…:rolleyes:
took the 2nd place under another friend who got first for doing a dao set. which he screwed up on and made up too.
both routines were new to each guy but they decided to do them anyway.
they took 1st and second which i thought was totally funny.
but it goes to show you, forms comps dont really mean much
[QUOTE=Fu-Pow;749759]It would be fine if that’s what they thought but I think they seriously delude themselves into thinking that they are “too deadly” to use their skills or that sparring is somehow beneath them.
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Sparring at tournaments just isn’t hygienic. Probably in most classes it’s not hygienic either. And with big puffy gloves there’s not much point anyway.
Lol at the asiaphile issue. You’re right that’s a whole other thread. It’d be like if a bunch of asian dudes showed up at an SCA convention and started wearing medieval armor and speaking with a english accent. Who knows…maybe that’s not so far fetched.
They DO go to SCA conventions. I’ve only been to a couple that I happened across by accident at colleges, but there were Asian guys with fake accents and there were Asian guys with Mongolian style clothes and non-Asians with Chinese style clothes.
Those SCA guys when they spar with their weapons they DO go hard. They even break their armor and their weapons a lot of the time, at least the ones I went to. Of course some people build their own armor and use sparring weapons.
[QUOTE=PangQuan;749768]the SCA stuff goes both ways.
you will find people who are simply interested in midevil style fighting and need an outlet to get their game on.
then you get the people who want to live in a fantasy land and pretend they are knights.
same with kungfu…or anything else for that matter.
It takes all kinds.[/QUOTE]
SCA is not just about dressing up as a warrior and stuff. They also have people who dress up as bartenders, barmaids, wenches, you name it.
A girl I met once said she went to them and played a wench because she got free drinks and free sex … I told her you’re supposed to get paid if you’re a wench but she said she got paid in beer.
[QUOTE=Flying-Monkey;749536]… If you did not understand my thread, you could has asked.[/QUOTE]No he couldn’t. that would take all the point out of his trolling.:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=neilhytholt;749772]SCA is not just about dressing up as a warrior and stuff. They also have people who dress up as bartenders, barmaids, wenches, you name it.
A girl I met once said she went to them and played a wench because she got free drinks and free sex … I told her you’re supposed to get paid if you’re a wench but she said she got paid in beer.[/QUOTE]
that’s why 'round here it’s better known as the Society for Consenting Adults.
[QUOTE=neilhytholt;749772]SCA is not just about dressing up as a warrior and stuff. They also have people who dress up as bartenders, barmaids, wenches, you name it.
A girl I met once said she went to them and played a wench because she got free drinks and free sex … I told her you’re supposed to get paid if you’re a wench but she said she got paid in beer.[/QUOTE]
maybe i should go to one and tell them im a barbarian and i have come to Crush them, see them driven before me and hear the lementations of their women.
back in 87-88 I had a couple friends of mine who got in to it and they were telling me about it…I was like, cool, drinking, wenching and when they were telling me about how the US is split up in to like 5 kingdoms and then further into baronies and such I asked what happened when someone decide to yell ‘the king is a fink!’
they said you couldn’t do that, everyone had to be nice and such and you’d be kicked out…
okay - 5 kingdoms, baronies and dukedoms and such…and no wars???
back in 87-88 I had a couple friends of mine who got in to it and they were telling me about it…I was like, cool, drinking, wenching and when they were telling me about how the US is split up in to like 5 kingdoms and then further into baronies and such I asked what happened when someone decide to yell ‘the king is a fink!’
they said you couldn’t do that, everyone had to be nice and such and you’d be kicked out…
okay - 5 kingdoms, baronies and dukedoms and such…and no wars???
so I said no thanks[/QUOTE]
I was researching it around here a while back because I was looking for someplace for weapons sparring and they pretty much are the only place around.
There are at least a few different groups, not just SCA. So you could I guess start your own group, and compete for members. But yeah, I don’t think they have wars and stuff.
Anyways, I shouldn’t have attacked Flying Monkey’s point here. Sorry about that.
I’d say that the way a lot of teachers teach their classes by doing forms and not a lot of applications is like science vs. applied science (engineering), but even in science they do experiments.
Maybe you could use the analogy of dogma vs. science, like because some master said do the form this way you must do it that way.
I’d say that the way a lot of teachers teach their classes by doing forms and not a lot of applications is like science vs. applied science (engineering), but even in science they do experiments.
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You bring up a good point. Modern Kung Fu just does experiments, like in school. You don’t get good untill you leave school, and enter the actual work force where you apply your science daily.
