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WCDT: 2460-2464 (3-7 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
GarandMarine:
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--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 03 Jun 2013, 00:15 ---I find it insulting in the same way I find sport/olympic fencing insulting. One does not take a weapon art and making an amusing game out of it.
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So... Olympic 50m pistol is out? Clay pigeon shooting? Biathlon? The sort of shooting contest depicted in Magnum Force (I don't know what it would properly be called)? Don't you and your shooting-buddies compete for scores, or who can shoot the smallest group, or whatever? How do you train in any martial art, armed or weaponless, without making it essentially a game? You can't actually deliver lethal strokes on the practice mat, so the process becomes a competition for touches or points. On the other hand, for example, many traditional shifu do take a dim view of competition styles which are pretty much wholly divorced from martial training, no matter how skilled the practitioners (and Chai Fong Ying is very very good)..
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The Olympic shooting competitions lost credibility with me when they started using lasers for some competitions, clay shooting is solid tracking and movement training and is useful for actually killing delicious birds, not to mention again, tracking, moving target shooting, etc. I was more leaning towards the second point though, competition styles (kendo, olympic fencing, certain forms of point sparring) aren't martial training, I certainly don't claim to be at the level of a sifu, sensei, or any other master (I turned down a black belt specifically because I don't feel I'm at that point yet) but I concur with that view point which is fairly common in martial communities, but again I'm the kind of individual who would happily join the dog brothers if they were in my area. So feel free to take my view points as the hate speech on sporterized martial arts that it is.
Is it cold in here?:
Abstinence-only sex educator?
bhtooefr:
Anything involving the word "qwerty". (Moderation of a keyboard forum, maybe?)
(A word so offensive to AIs that PINTSIZE recoiled in horror.)
Carl-E:
In that case, I wonder what Dvorak means...
(and I really didn't know that there was only aq distant relation to the composer... and that it's not pronounced that way.)
Nepiophage:
Pintsize would peddle secret film of Marten with Dora and Faye with Angus.
Yes he would.
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