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stick fighting competition

  • 21-04-2009 2:44pm
    #1
    scuttery1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    A bit late posting this but the PC was acting up. Last Saturday saw the first, in what is hoped to be a continuing series, of stick fighting competitions take place in Dublin. It was held in Kingswood during Pat Whites “Best of the Best” competition (http://www.bestofthebest-ireland.com/). This competition is the brain child of Ray Curtin a FMA practitioner from Gorey (http://www.chambersama.com/).
    The format used involved the use of padded sticks and minimal armour and was fought over 3 x 2minute rounds.
    Being as there are no other stick fighting tournaments, that I know about, a crew of us decided to give it a bash. There weren’t a whole heap of people there but hopefully this will change.
    Speaking personally I thoroughly enjoyed the day even if I thought I was going to die from oxygen starvation!:D
    Special thanks to Dave “get stuck in & enjoy yerselves” Hedges of Wild Geese MA (http://www.wildgeesema.com/) for refereeing all the bouts on the day, to Rays lovely wife Kelly for time & score keeping and to Ray himself for organising the event. The next outing is scheduled to take place at the next Best of the Best competition sometime in June.


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  • #2
    Ug Lee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭Ug Lee


    scuttery1 wrote: »
    A bit late posting this but the PC was acting up. Last Saturday saw the first, in what is hoped to be a continuing series, of stick fighting competitions take place in Dublin. It was held in Kingswood during Pat Whites “Best of the Best” competition (http://www.bestofthebest-ireland.com/). This competition is the brain child of Ray Curtin a FMA practitioner from Gorey (http://www.chambersama.com/).
    The format used involved the use of padded sticks and minimal armour and was fought over 3 x 2minute rounds.
    Being as there are no other stick fighting tournaments, that I know about, a crew of us decided to give it a bash. There weren’t a whole heap of people there but hopefully this will change.
    Speaking personally I thoroughly enjoyed the day even if I thought I was going to die from oxygen starvation!:D
    Special thanks to Dave “get stuck in & enjoy yerselves” Hedges of Wild Geese MA (http://www.wildgeesema.com/) for refereeing all the bouts on the day, to Rays lovely wife Kelly for time & score keeping and to Ray himself for organising the event. The next outing is scheduled to take place at the next Best of the Best competition sometime in June.

    Who took part/won?


  • #3
    silat liam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭silat liam


    Hi John

    We hope to have a group there next time, look forward to it. Its great to see the art developing.

    Liam


  • #4
    Activity4Life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Activity4Life


    Bo: Japanese Long Staff

    Is there anyone else interested in the BO.
    I have been doing a little bit of it for the last few years.
    I would be interested in new material or techniques.


  • #5
    pearsquasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭pearsquasher


    We study the bo staff as part of the Bujinkan curricullum. We use wood for slow speed, get-the-techniques-right training and padded for high-speed go-for-it training .. which comes much later as inevitably, techniques gets sloppy and that means serious injury if it was real.

    We don't spar as such........ but randori is usefull AFTER lots of basics. What's the difference? Hard to explain but mostly randori isn't 100% free-for-all but rather attribute training. Often, with padded equipment, students do things they would never do with solid oak. So these unrealistic things need to be whittled away.


  • #6
    Activity4Life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Activity4Life


    pearsquasher wrote: »
    We study the bo staff as part of the Bujinkan curricullum. We use wood for slow speed, get-the-techniques-right training and padded for high-speed go-for-it training .. which comes much later as inevitably, techniques gets sloppy and that means serious injury if it was real.

    We don't spar as such........ but randori is usefull AFTER lots of basics. What's the difference? Hard to explain but mostly randori isn't 100% free-for-all but rather attribute training. Often, with padded equipment, students do things they would never do with solid oak. So these unrealistic things need to be whittled away.

    Thanks for that.
    i would like to see that and perhaps try it.... sounds good, padded equipment etc.

    The style I study is Chito-Ryu

    Hadrian


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