Sword Training

Due to several forms of martial arts I can attest the importance of sword training/ martial art training for a Jedi to defend life to their fullest extent. I even have all 7 forms and their relationship to practical martial arts written in my Jedi chronical. I am partial to a Jo staff when it comes to weaponry due to the fluidity of the tool, but when it comes to technique I am partial to Makashi due to its precision and beauty of techniques but Soresu is my jam especially since a staff was practically Soresu personified. I do like Djem Sho however because of the defensive guard.

Primarily that's how I first learned, two older brothers and what not, and the severe hunger to learn traditional martial arts as well as a deeply rooted appreciation for utilizing my physical existence as much as possible materialized from it.

https://youtu.be/AmR5LoyZ4jw
Here's a fun choreographed duel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vGjNnZhJFI

So, how do we want to start this thing?

Focus Groups, Form 0 and up from there, exploratory lessons first to see how people teach? Lesson plans, or do we want to just start collecting what we got?

Sidenote, here is one video set that may have material useful. It's all pick and choose as foam fighting is different to some degree as other combats.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6MyX7zyLfGrlJEZFxD9OcU0hm8UBHqgl

And here are duel and fighting that you can watch and pull techniques in an active combat situation.

https://www.youtube.com/user/dacmarcinakis/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_opLQMQxs5FQhuqqJI5eOA/videos

I haven't heard anything back yet on our request. We should talk about format though. I think we should approach this like the library, imo. Keep our videos for each form together in a thread. We could possibly introduce fitness journals as well.

JLSpinner wrote: I haven't heard anything back yet on our request. We should talk about format though. I think we should approach this like the library, imo. Keep our videos for each form together in a thread. We could possibly introduce fitness journals as well.

That sounds like a plan, I'm relatively new to this and it will certainly help if all the forms are organized separately...

My biggest advice would be needing to cover first:

Safety
Stretching
Nutrition to -some- degree to prevent injury
Combat basics (This is for defense/meditation, not to attack, seek to desescalate first, etc)

So, you know, no one dies or gets injured trying to learn. Same stuff other places teach, safety and then brutal, brutal combat.

Nakis wrote: My biggest advice would be needing to cover:

Safety
Stretching
Nutrition to -some- degree to prevent injury
Combat basics (This is for defense/meditation, not to attack, seek to desescalate first, etc)

That can all be collected into one thread I should think...