Langes Messer: Warrior Games
BackNote: This is about freeing yourself from technique. If you have any questions about this idea, its nature, its purpose or the purpose of the drills inside this video, please ask! Just try to understand it first. The first video of the new school year. Time to put the students back into context! And with the long knife to boot. Such fun. Some notes and explanations for the video. I regularly have my students playing in martial games, Warrior Games as I like to call them, in order to build context for the techniques that they learn at the school. First of all, the Distance Game trains medium-distance fighting capabilities, whether you practice historical European/medieval martial arts or whatever. It doesn't matter. The version in this video is the simplest of them. The Distance Game is a limited context training tool, but it's one that helps with what could be, perhaps, the greatest single aspect of fighting—distance. The control of one's distance—space in the grander sense—let's you control everything. The Distance Game is a shortcut tool to developing this ability, which is a natural outgrowth of standardized practice anyway, but with the game, learning times are dramatically shortened by its nature. To sum it up a bit, the Distance Game is how we play with the Context into which techniques are dropped...kind of like peas and carrots and spices and so on are dropped into water/broth in order to make a soup or stew. Of course, the better a cook you are, the better a stew you'll produce. This context is the matrix in which many of the techniques in the old manuals are dropped into, or, in my opinion, more importantly arise out of. This is one of those parts that they don't always explain. Reading that you go around with him or he comes at you is an indication of context, a kind of descriptive linearity, but one that might not include the flowing nature that often appears in a more liberal fighting context. Everyone should train at their own level. Confidence and ability naturally increase speed. Have fun! Music by Corvus Corax
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Uploaded: October 11th, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
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