jaime_g wrote:These are drills with sharps. They can be really interesting and deep, but that's not sparring.
Formosa Neijia wrote:jaime_g wrote:These are drills with sharps. They can be really interesting and deep, but that's not sparring.
The video I posted is real sparring and we did hours of it. It's free-form, not choreographed, and the blade that Tim Waid held was razor sharp. Again, people don't understand what they're looking at because they have never done it. And that's fine. But in general, I try to stick to commenting on things I've actually done.
Bhassler wrote:Meh. Anyone who hasn't been in actual fights (as in multiple) with actual weapons should probably be giving some pretty strong disclaimers as far as what they think they're teaching, anyways.
Steve James wrote:Jaime_g, what do you think of this sabre duel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkYjdPCyYjk
As for xingyi jian, I dislike the traditional five elements practice with the jian as it doesn't really teach the basics of the straight sword. It's more about xingyi than about the jian and I'm always against that.
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