The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

[Nishi]

Hi there, i dont know anything about the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (or H.B. Shinai as it relates to the shinai training) so, i thought i'd ask...

Have a look and post your thoughts....
Harmless, hilarious or dangerous ?

http://www.shinai.org/

I regret moving this far from kendo related topic, but in some bizzare way i thought the rest of you would like to see alternative shinai applications.

[Nishi]

Anachronism

1: something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred [syn: mistiming, misdating] 2: an artifact that belongs to another time 3: a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age.

[Raiza]

Have a look and post your thoughts....
Harmless, hilarious or dangerous ?


All of the above! Depends on who's doing the hitting. They're using SCA rules for combat, though, so that should keep the number of decapitations down.

Deep discussion on this impressive activity and its ilk is found here! :ninja:
http://pub19.ezboard.com/fmcgillkendoclubfrm2.showMessage?topicID=60.topic
And here!
http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=930
And here too!
http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=679

[gill]

:eek:

and people think we are crazy????????????

G :D

[nodachi]

It would be entertaining to see a kendoka take on everyone and mop the floor with them. Of course we could all be suprized... you never know quality of their training... we would have to be approved by the weapons master first... <snicker snicker>

[Hongsermeier]

I think I"d like to go down and watch just to check it out. Maybe give it a shot. :cross_eye

[R A Sosnowski]

It would be entertaining to see a kendoka take on everyone and mop the floor with them. Of course we could all be suprized... you never know quality of their training... we would have to be approved by the weapons master first... <snicker snicker>

I would not be so sure. There are stories of uppity Iaido-ka, who studied real swordsmanship, looking down their noses at Kendo-ka, who play tag with "mock swords." When challenged, the Iaido-ka donned Kendo-gu and promptly got their arses whipped.

Moral: don't assume that your skills are transferrable when you play a different game with different rules (You did read the rules, didn't you? :) ).

I personally find it amusing that someone else has created a "style" or a "group of related styles" of fencing using Shinai. And they did it without a lot of expensive, imported equipment. :D

FWIW.

[Winter_Wolf]

I personally find it amusing that someone else has created a "style" or a "group of related styles" of fencing using Shinai. And they did it without a lot of expensive, imported equipment. :D

FWIW.

Heh, feel free to come down to VA. and start up one of these groups, i'd probably be one of the first to join you! Better yet, I could start one...

[Nishi]

Oddly enough, ive thought about this and reflected....

If the SCA removed the shinai from there practice and replaced it with...ohh i dont know, somthing more original...they may actually be onto something, but while they borrow equipment from kendo they might be type-casted as a spin off, (not implying anything about kumdo here):D

[Old Warrior]

Raymond has a good point (no pun intended).

I am absolutely convinced that I could execute a straight lunge with an epee and strike dead center on the chest of a skilled kenshi before he could cut men. The straight angle of attack and ability to move the thin epee blade almost instantly would be very difficult to stop.

[Neil Gendzwill]

If the SCA removed the shinai from there practice and replaced it with...ohh i dont know, somthing more original...they may actually be onto something, but while they borrow equipment from kendo they might be type-casted as a spin off, (not implying anything about kumdo here):D

The guys at shinai.org are far from mainline SCA. Many of the SCA "kingdoms" don't allow the use of shinai, feeling them unsafe within the rules they have set up. SCA combat is usually either "heavy", which is with solid rattan swords and metal armour, or "light", historical recreation rapier fencing or similar things. The local SCA guys I've seen aren't very good but I've heard some of the serious heavies are very good at what they do.