Sword licking?

[DeviantH]

Try Niten Icchi Ryu it's a sword combat style and really good

[El Banana]

The style is not the problem, it tends to be the school's fault.

Martial arts are combat arts. If they never let you spar hard, or barefisted, you'll never learn squat.

[Onideus_Mad_Hatter]

The style is not the problem, it tends to be the school's fault.

Martial arts are combat arts. If they never let you spar hard, or barefisted, you'll never learn squat.

I think the problem is just location. If you don't live near a big city your options kinda suck. *sigh*...my stupid town doesn't even have a boxing gym.

[El Banana]

I was lucky, I found a nameless kung-fu school back home that was taught by a seriously awesome fighter.
Classes were unbearable, fights were bloody. No gloves (No one could afford any) or protection, but you sure learned quickly.

[samurairyu]

I'm just glad there is someone else in the SCA

Hajimemashite! (nice to meet you in Japanese)

I love the S.C.A., but I haven't gone very far from home for anything other than school related things(U of MT). Seein as how I live in Montana, most of the best stuff takes place too far away for me to participate

I was taught by a man who had just moved over here, a microbiologist working at the Rocky Mountain Research Lab, and within about six months he had beaten everyone here without any difficulty whatsoever. You can imagine the reactions from the local knights

After a while of training with him I was knockin knights and what have you left and right. My teacher, the slighlty-demented Ezekial as he was known(not yet a mad scientist but well on his way), could always adjust his level of skill to remain just beyond my reach. This is not to say that I never defeated him, just that when I did it was simply a matter of him underestimating the growth of my own abilities. When he altered his style to reflect my newer skills the repeated dings of his blade(ratan) on my helmet was quite common. 8)

As for the other posts I've been seein about various martial arts...I agree. The main thing that determines ability is you drive for skill.
In the words of the great Bruce Lee:"A good fight should be like a short play, only played seriously...The highest technique is to have no technique, the highest form is to have no form...When I strike, I do not hit them with my fist. It hits all by itself."
This is the best description of the Dao of combat that I have ever heard. The master was refering to the Daoist philosophies and the religious aspects quite specifically when he essentially describes how in Daoism the highest level of the heavens is the realm of formlessness, a place where those who live there just EXIST. No pain, no sorrow, only the near pressence of the Dao.
The concept of going there is quite breathtaking.
Of course to get there one would need to not only become an immortal, but you would then need to accomplish several feats of similar difficulty to ascend to this highest plane of existance.
I'm sure that all of you who have felt the pleasure of combat's touch have experienced a situation where you do not think about your actions and your body just seems to move by itself. Some may call it "the zone," however that is the Dao. It is usually quite brief at first but the longer one trains and the more one encounters the faster it comes and the longer it stays.

This has been a mini-lecture from one of the four Asian Studies majors here at the U of M.

[Propyro]

I was lucky, I found a nameless kung-fu school back home that was taught by a seriously awesome fighter.
Classes were unbearable, fights were bloody. No gloves (No one could afford any) or protection, but you sure learned quickly.

hmm sounds like fun ... serioulsy ... it dose.

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[El Banana]

It was.
The one thing I hate about being here (besides the food) is that I can't go to my ole KFS.