Where do you sit on the tradition vs sport debate?
both are fun and can coexistHistorical Fencing can be sportified and traditionalist sometimesKendo it's a sportified traditionI prefer gekkiken & HF desu
both are fun and can coexist. Historical Fencing can be sportified and traditionalist sometimes. Kendo it's a sportified traditionI prefer gekkiken & HF desu
Perception action couplingIf you're not practicing in a live environment you're not actually learning anythingThere's an important distinction to be made about being aware of a thing and being able to do the thing
>>259715both is good :3t. 1-dan
>>259715Only dorks complain about sports. The traditional martial artists in history were also competing against each other. Pressure testing is necessary for improvement.
>>259715traditions are perpetually becoming sports
Tradition to me implies an unbroken lineage which is not what we have today in martial arts or things like HEMA. All the Chinese stuff is basically made up (did you know all these "ancient" kung fu styles post-date Queensberry rules boxing?). HEMA is just dweebs with pony tails trying their best to recreate things from books, but it's preposterous to pretend that these dweebs are somehow in the same continuum as a guy that was getting into actual sword fights 16th century Venice or whatever.Sports are ultimately also much more effective manifestations of whatever art they're based on because they actually compete and engage in the thing they're teaching (albeit in simulated ways). Any Olympic style fencer that tries HEMA ends up destroying everybody because of superior fundamentals like foot work and distance management (let's not even talk about sports combat vs kung fu guys, we all know how that goes). Culture clashing in reality is a common theme throughout humanity, and in the end it's always reality that wins out. How you feel about that is up to you.
Stupid unrealistic shit. Both would get slaughtered.A swordsman with no shield gets slaughtered by a spearman with no shield 99% of the time.A swordsman or a spearman with no shield gets slaughtered by anyone with a bow or just darts. Every Roman soldier carried with him a bunch of darts for this reason.
Is the debate between sport vs “tradition” or do you mean something like sport vs “martial art”.Any sport can be a tradition. Even if you believe kendo is a sport, it’s still a tradition. Just because something is traditional doesn’t make it more realistic or whatever.Arguably, HEMA is less of a tradition than kendo, as it is a reconstructed art. But I guess that depends on your idea of tradition.>>261245A Roman soldier would be easily dispatched by my Glock 19
