Re: Knife Fighting Turnament


Neil Gendzwill wrote:
Rabid Weasel wrote:
They've decided to have a knife tournament for the first time at ISMAC
this year.

I'm not sure what I think of the rules yet. Check 'em out.

http://artofcombat.org/public/thespis/Convention/KnifeTourneyRules.htm

Seems like they're asking for injuries allowing thrusts from such big
stiff knives.

Probably.

We spar with aluminum training knives, and they *hurt*, and I think the
fact that we haven't had any broken ribs or injuries of that nature so
far is just luck. Still, *I* still think that training with dangerous
and painful tools like the aluminum trainer has value. But there is a
*reason* we don't do that kind of thing very often.

Self-called points make no sense to me.

Yeah, there'll be a *lot* of arguments over that one. But I'm not as
averse to it as you probably are.

Pierre

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