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Knagi

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Location: Brunswick, Ohio

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Posted:12th Oct 2001anyone know of an internet site that has rope dart lessons? I really wanna learn how to do this art it seems like it would be alot of fun when mastered. I haven't had any luck searching around. ------------------We are all in the cosmic movie. That means the day you die you watch your whole life repeating for eternity. So you'd better have some good things happen in there and have a fitting climax. --Jim MorrisonMost Memerable crowd saying "Hey look that dude's gonna set himself on fire again!"

We are all in the cosmic movie. That means the day you die you watch your whole life repeating for eternity. So you'd better have some good things happen in there and have a fitting climax. --Jim MorrisonIt's going to come from a direction you didn't predict at a moment of chaos which you didn't see coming. -- NYC

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ImmortalNinja

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Location: London

Total posts: 104

Posted:6th Jul 2005Hi all,
There sure are a lot of posts in this thread aint there. Been reading a few of the early ones and have bit of a rant welling up.
There were a few post suggesting that rope darts (and other martial weapons) shouldn�t be 'played' around with or are ripping off disciplines of a martial arts form.
As a martial artists I disagree with this strongly on oh so many levels.

For a start, there is no reason why a non-black belt should not start their weapons training. My old system of Kung Fu had many clubs. My club was thankfully taught by a wise instructor who seeing my interest in weapons taught me and the class. The other classes had to wait until they were black belts before being allowed to touch a staff or spear. In my experience the spear posed no more or less of a threat to me when I was a white belt than when I was black belt. The only difference was that while the other black belt candidates were timid with finally being allowed to use weapons I was more confident and relaxed. While we are often told not to run before we can walk there is no reason why you cant start practicing to swim.

As for ripping off martial arts disciplines. Most of the practical martial arts disciplines don�t have the flashy (but cool) spinning moves as part of their basic principles. You wont believe how many times you can poke someone while they are busy spinning their stick. Instead the spins and flash have been added to the martial arts as an eye-catcher and for performance. The one discipline most guilty of this is Wu-Shu. I don�t mean to offend anyone but every Wu-Shu class I have been to, the empasis has always been on technical acrobatic moves and not technical combat moves. And there is a reason for this. During the Revolution in China traditional martial arts schools were closed and persecuted. Many teachers fled to other countries such as Malaysia. Realizing that China was in dager of losing a big part of its heritage the Peoples party revived Kung fu in such a form where it posed no threat to the party. Ie non-combative, and so was the birth of the sport Wu Shu, which is now more a performance than martial art.
I have used several poi inspired moves in my nine-section whip demos and conversely rope-dart and whip moves in my poi spinning, and don�t think either style comprimised the other.

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