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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2007 20:18:45 GMT
is this just like, for fun, or is this actual training???
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Post by randomnobody on Nov 26, 2007 20:25:36 GMT
I'm sure this was just for fun, but it could also be an interesting practice on the importance of senses other than vision. Hearing could go a long way here, for instance. Not to mention that wacky "sixth sense" some people have, where they just "feel" you over there. Same concept as the ol' blind samurai, or more famously, Zatoichi. Obviously vision isn't the only sense one can train oneself to use here.
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Post by salvatore on Nov 27, 2007 10:43:00 GMT
Well, it is probably just for fun. Then again, I have seen a woman on Youtube that Cut a watermelon on a students stomach. She was lying on the table, her teacher blind folded, and she cut horizontally and then straight down to cleave it in two...So maybe there are deeper meanings to this. I practice with my bokken eyes closed sometimes, I get a better feel for my environment when You are limited to just your ears.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2007 16:02:10 GMT
I have trained blindfolded and in the dark before and found it to be quite beneficial. Even wing chun chi sau is based more on feel than sight. But- this video does not depict any serious training . It seems like the 'combatants' are simply the entertainment of the day rather than training. This video would fit nicely into a Monty Python skit.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2007 16:56:49 GMT
that was bloody funny and i despair of their spatial awareness, several times they were close enough that they should have felt each others presence.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2007 18:49:35 GMT
lol, that is an SCA practice, in case anyone was wondering. They do stuff like that every once in a while to get a good laugh.
I don't expect that this would help you heighten your senses much, because there is too much background noise. Moving armor makes noise, but in this case there are a lot of other people moving around in armor in that room. The padding inside the helmet muffles all sounds so you will not be able to distinguish the direction of any one noise. I usually have to be standing right in front of someone in order to make sense of what they are saying when I have my helmet on.
The benefit I see to doing something like that is that normally when you strike, you anticipate your weapon to hit something. You anticipate the impact. You often use it to spring off and make a followup strike or recovery. Occasionally, if you unexpectedly miss, your weapon will pull your arm to a position that is very awkward to recover from quickly. Given that this happens rarely, you don't get much practice in how to recover from that situation. In such training where most of your shots will miss, you will get accustomed to recovering from missed strikes.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2007 8:43:45 GMT
lol, that is an SCA practice, in case anyone was wondering. Thanks for that bill, I had a feeling it may be in your department. ;D I mean, they talk about not hitting someone with glasses but a blind man must not stand a chance ! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2007 14:00:03 GMT
Effectively Blind and Deaf ;D
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