kreese wrote:...maybe because they spar a lot? "fidgety" sticks is a way to conceal your movements and keep your opponent guessing. Boxers fidget a whole lot too...
TaoJoannes wrote:You can simply move a baston more freely and more easily than your average bladed weapon
TaoJoannes wrote:and the area of the weapon that can do the same amount of damage is much greater with a baston than a bladed weapon. By which I mean, it doesn't matter what part of the stick makes contact, it's going to do pretty much the same amount of damage, whereas with a bladed weapon, the damage will vary depending on if it hits with the flat, the backside, or the blade. Because of that, and because of how much easier it is to move around a baston than an actual blade of similar proportions, there are many more techniques and shots available to accomplish the same basic purpose with stick fighting than with blade fighting.
TaoJoannes wrote:If you're fighting with a stick, and you know it's a stick, and it's suppossed to be a stick, there is one set of concerns you're working with. If you're fighting with a stick, and you know it's a stick, but you're pretending it's a bladed weapon, it's a different environment, different concerns, different things to worry about, basically.
Jed wrote:To ToaJoannes: If you are hitting with another part of the stick, you are just being lazy and performing a sloppy strike.
ktoley wrote:Jed wrote:To ToaJoannes: If you are hitting with another part of the stick, you are just being lazy and performing a sloppy strike.
Hmm.. this may sound strange but I think almost everything has a utility. You can hit with any part of any weapon and if you can generate the desired result, and repeat it, then it is good. There is not wrong way to fight except in a way that does not enable you to win.
In one of the beginner classes of our school, the Gura is very skilled with strikes that look like they may be very slow and are likely to miss their target. Her motions all appear "Lazy", lack form and you would think she is doing a very poorly executed 7 Strike. When the student reacts accordingly, a change in grip and use of her body, rather then her arm, creates a whipping motion that brings the tip of the weapon back to strike the intended target from behind with speed and power, not generated with muscle, over a very short distance. It works very well with the stick, when targeting the hand and wrist. To see it however it first appears wrong, and useless. You can't even see the strike if you are not looking for it. You know it is there when it hits you though because it hurts.
Although their are obvious adjustments it's quite effective when she applies the technique to the gim. Surprisingly with the gim, the same technique does not look lazy or formless. It's not because of her adjustments but because the gim requires finesse to use it effectively. So the motion fits it, and the expectations of the observer.
I don't know if she first learned her technique with the stick or the sword.
strawdog wrote:You're making comments disguised as questions.
Then you proceed to lecture on your knowledge of stick and blade. Laughable.
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