Swordfighting as a sport?

[pants]

Ok I'm a regular reader of Looking For Group, a webcomic, and on the website there was the following post -

http://www.lfgcomic.com/forum/index.php ... f=2&t=3435

Essentially this guy wants to form a sport, similar to LARPing, where people go around hitting each other with fake swords, axes and whatever else you might fancy possibly dressed up in full armour.

Does anyone else think this is the best idea since Swiss Cheese?

[AstroBoy]

No

[exowolf]

Well there is some of this that already takes place in various forms.  One is if you go to a marial arts school...

You also see this in the realms of re-enactments.  Finally we see this in a crude forms with Fight Clubs using various objects...

I personally have practice swords and do occassionally engage in combat with others...

[Erika]

OH well... this is a strange idea.

I practice Kendo and the reason why it had been created is because it did not seem logical to slice into pieces people learning how to use a sword.

If adult people feels like killing each other for real as a game it is quite strange. I strongly believe that this guy had spent too much time playing with the computer and he does not know what is pain and fatigue. In addition, once you are dead you are dead and the game does not restart: it is ended forever.

I did not use the words I felt like using to describe what I think because I strongly believe that such words are not appropriate for a Lady.

Anyway, in the deepest of my hearth I think that it is the most stupid and XXXXXXXX and %*!@#!!!# idea that I ever heard. Hurting each other and killing each other for a game...

He should go walking 10 Km with a backpack then we will see.

Even the knights in the middle age paid attention while training to do not harm their partners. If you kill all your allies during the training, who will help you in case of war?

MAH...

[pants]

I agree Erika, it is crazy to kill your training partners, but this guy wants to form a fairly safe sprot type activity that the whole family can join in!

Obviously there's some danger but at the moment they are trying to come up for rules which cover the safety of the indviduals that choose to participate in the game.

Personally I like the whole idea, as I think it would be cool to try out different styles of melee combat in a group format.  While I respect LARPers for their committment the whole image of LARPing is a little to 'geeky?' for me.  This sounds like something I'd be much more comfortable with doing.

I think it would be cool to see guys trained in escrima up against a full on Roman shield wall, or at least a modern facsimile thereof.  Plus you could get a bunch of kendo practitioners going all out versus shaolin style weapons and just go nuts!  It'd be like a movie only in real life. 

And let's not even get started on Vikings vs Pirates vs Ninjas!  That whole sentence screams AWESOME!

[Jocke]

Vikings win, all the time.

Why? Because they had all the stuff that makes pirates and ninjas awesome.

And beards. 

I dislike that the guy coming up with that idea had foam-weapons in mind, thou. There should be something with more "ompfh". Like hockeysticks or baseball bats. That would also make it easier for the ref. to decide who's out or not. 

[Nick]

I do this a few times each year and get paid to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=039hByokvqs

//N

[exowolf]

I do this a few times each year and get paid to do it.

So you are paid to be a militant activist?  I thought that was volunteer...

[Erika]

I do this a few times each year and get paid to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=039hByokvqs

//N

It looks fun being a policeman...

HUGGIES

[Jocke]

So you are paid to be a militant activist?  I thought that was volunteer...

What? You didn't know Nick is a communist-hooligan? 

[Erika]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did not know that...

Now I am impressed... GO GO GO Nick...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB5x6cDMjao

[Jocke]

YES! We must all rally against the fascists, comrades!



When I was in basic, and we got put through E&E training, one of the things we got subjected to was stress-positions, wearing a black hood, all the while loudspeakers kept blaring: "Working class brothers- we have to start a communist party!" over and over and over... for 24 bloody hours.

It ceased being fun after the first three. 

[Nick]

Bah You are all impossible.

I have to bring out the doomdice now. I didn't want to, but You forced me more or less.

Let the rumbling begin.

//N

[Erika]

Why do you need to doomdice us?

I was thinking you like these kind of songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qHkYXqO ... re=related

[Jocke]

I have to bring out the doomdice now.

Hey! That's uncalled for!