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erm, first off *tut tut* for starting a new thread when there's a rope dart thread just below this.

But - www.gwangung.co.uk is who I use for my Martial Art supplies.
Oh, and please - get instruction (whether lessons, videos etc), if you're going to start doing neck wraps or anything where you could potentially strangle yourself or twat yourself in the head with the dart - which REALLY hurts

Then get yourself over to the other rope dart thread and join the fun

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Ah, sorry I thought you'd posted in the "Other Toys" section which has a Rope Dart thread - my bad

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As to their legality - it's a weapon so don't bring it out in public or flash it about.
Don't throw it at people in parks either or you'll upset people

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Just bad manners isn't it.

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A hardware store?
You can also get good, though more expensive roap from outdoor adventure stores and shops that sell sailing supplies...

I live in a world of infinite possibilities.

Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

More than welcome

I found the dart quite a nice weight to work with, but there's still enough of a point on it to couse serious damage. I was playing with mine once, a throw went a bit off and just from falling from 9 foot in the air it embedded itself scarily deep in the ground...

If you're good at tying knots, it's no problem to un-do the dart and tie on something softer and less pointy, although you do want something quite weighty - I found a tennis ball waaay to light... Just make sure when you put the dart back on you tie it up REALLY good.

Oh, and it's great fun to set a target up and practice your aim with it

Try www.wushucentral.com for some videos of some killer (and some not so good) videos - it's a little slow to download though.

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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

I'm just outside Guildford, Surrey.

My club is www.namyang.co.uk (Awful website by the way ), they have a few different branches around Southern England.

As for local clubs just try a search for "Kung Fu Windsor" or whatever, go along to a few and see which you like best.

And I'm refraining from entering an arguement about Wushu - don't even get me started on the performing "Monks"

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Nope, first time I've heard of it was on GwanGung with those VCD's...

I was actually quite suprised as how un-showy our discipline is. When I first learnt our staff form I was a bit "Is that it? No spinny roundy bits?" as it literally is: Smack in the stomach, smack on the head, smack in the throat (or something similair)
Even our Tan Tow (Broadsword) is more on the practical side of things.

Oh, and just because we're Shaolin, doesn't mean we're showy. The orignal Shaolin monks would be crying in their graves if they saw what their name was being put to nowadays.

Shaolin (or perhaps more accurately - Shao Lin) is the name of the temple from which our art originated from, along with pretty much all the other forms of Kung Fu (if you go back far enough) Our style is just soooooooooooooo far from what you see the Monks doing in their show.
I'm not saying I don't respect how hard what they're doing is, I'm just saying in terms of a martial art i.e. a form of combat which it claims to be - it's rubbish.

But I'm not going to be drawn into a discussion on this

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