Iaido

MaeveD

Anyone know if theres an Iaido club still going?

Dyr

http://www.iaido.ie/classes.htm

MaeveD

.....but are they still going now.... still holding classes??

I'm asking because as far as I know the classes have stopped in Bray and DCU! (tried the number and couldn't get through)

gymrabbit

MaeveD you know I think you're a fantastic person but why do you want to learn Iaido? It looks like the MOST boring martial art the world has every produced. And it's hugely dangerous.

Millionaire

gymrabbit wrote:

why do you want to learn Iaido? .

whats boring to you, might be very interesting to someone else.

I find grappling/ground fighting pretty boring to look at, when compared to a striking combat sport. especially for me a full on Muay Thai bout, or K1.

However, I know, many people on here, find grappling very exciting, and thats great for them too.

Live and let live!

MaeveD

gymrabbit wrote:

MaeveD you know I think you're a fantastic person but why do you want to learn Iaido? It looks like the MOST boring martial art the world has every produced. And it's hugely dangerous.

I never said I wanted to learn Iaido????? I know someone who a serious collecter of Samurai swords and they want to try it.

Nice that you think I'm a fantastic person though shuchs!!!!!

Dyr

gymrabbit wrote:

MaeveD you know I think you're a fantastic person but why do you want to learn Iaido? It looks like the MOST boring martial art the world has every produced. And it's hugely dangerous.

Eye of the beholder and all that. During the last olympics i was browsing through a big dept store and stopped to watch the judo on their widescreens. The girl i was with came over and looked at it for a bit and then said something like "God that's boring, they're just hanging out of each other" Sad thing was that she was actually right

gymrabbit

watching people do judo, bjj, submission wrestling at a high standard is actually extremely boring, i think clive described it as "watching paint dry". If you're experienced yourself and can appreciate some excellent but subtle maneover you can "oooh and ahhh" all you want but it's largely very tedious until, in judo's case, a big throw comes along.

watching amateur boxing is also, rather tedious unless it's one of those fights in which 2 people are really just wacking each other over and over again.

mma and k1 are the most interesting to watch in my opinion but in both, more so in mma, you can get very boring fights.

Now, moving onto my second point, all these things may be boring to watch but aren't boring to particpate in. I think Iaido is boring to watch and I presume it's boring to practice. But some people like this kinda thing, and WE ALL know that so I didn't bother saying it because WE ALL know that.

I was actually correct in my inference that maeve didn't want to learn iaido.

Millionaire

actually I get bored watching Muay Thai fights after about 2 hours max!!!

As a result I only go and see the fights about every 6 - 8 weeks, and there is a top stadium with some of the top fighters in thailand, about 15 mins from the house.

Yes from the month or so grappling I did last year... I really enjoyed it! looking forward to take it up, which i hoped to do, but I am going to have to push it back a few months until next year....but I ll defo get started in 2007!

pearsquasher

From reading around over the years, Iado, being one of the "do" arts as opposed to a "jutsu" dicipline, generally tends to be less about "fighting" and more about developing the self through training/movement - it seems to be related to Zen philosphy in that regard.

I can see the appeal to a certain extent but I personally would rather forge myself in a "jutsu" practice where I reckon you gain similar understanding of the sprit/self etc but through a more interactive and dynamic dicipline. ie. that zen feeling CAN be a natural side-effect to training, but ain't the reason d'etre - surviving an agression is.

Bujinkan (www.bujinkan.ie) contains classical iaijutsu and the other sword arts...kenjutsu, tachi-waza, kodachi etc. so it could be worth checking out for them interested in Japanese sword. Some clubs look at sword more than others however as the repetoire is big and not all instructors have learned sword in depth.

I doubt anyone cares if a martial art looks boring as they are meant for doing, not watching.

bennosuke

pearsquasher wrote:

From reading around over the years, Iado, being one

Bujinkan (www.bujinkan.ie) contains classical iaijutsu and the other sword arts...kenjutsu, tachi-waza, kodachi etc. so it could be worth checking out for them interested in Japanese sword. Some clubs look at sword more than others however as the repetoire is big and not all instructors have learned sword in depth.

I doubt anyone cares if a martial art looks boring as they are meant for doing, not watching.

Hi Pearsquasher,

Wich style (school, ryu) of Kenjutsu, Iaijutsu, kodachi you do in bujinkan?

Ben