Hello all arma mebers who end up reading this post and thank you for taking the time to address my issues and conncerns on my personal study of the wma.
id first like to thank all active particapatins of arma (and otherwise) for there onw contrabution to the wma and our ever advancing knowagle of this lost art. for this art has know taken a central role in my every day life and the further i get involed in this art the more i realize how much there is to learn and explore. i have pesonally only been studying for the 6 months but i feel i have learnd a substastall amout in this small time frame. as most of us know the study of the wma is liited to a small group of mebers compared to the eastern study of the martail arts. so it is hard for inndaviduals who are not located near the south to acctivly study with a large group of experainced people, and this is where i fall in. I live in a quite comminity just outside of the city of nelson B.C and for me to pressue my life long instersts in swordsmanship was very diffacult. so i started seaching around for some sort of sword fighting training area.(keep in mind this is before i had any idea about arma and the historical study of the western martail arts.) and all i font was a local larp group whos studid rules about no thrusting and no punches kicks.and the horable assumtaion that a soldior could fight with no legs angered me beacuse i felt that a fight between comatants would be dirty and would not really have a set of rules so i quit and started to make up my own kind of "real fighting". as me and my freind soon discovered our wasters would dent extremlly easilly with edge on edge contact so i started to look around on the internet for a better way to block and eventually came accross arma. slowlly after months of reading i started to understand that there was way more to sword play then just stadic parrys and dirty kicks and throws but there was an advacent system of combat that was practiced by serious people whoi where inserested in the martail asspects of swordsmanship and not the romantacied version of a fair fight with rules and regulations.and thus came my intersest in the wma for i had found a life long dream and that is to train like a real soldior or knight would have to protect his life. so i began to read LOTS on the subject just about the entire arrticals and essays page and the historic manualls page and to sum it all up just about the whole page <img src="/forum/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> then i started to print off manuals and study.i knew the dangers involved in any weapon beacusse i have been around weapons since i was i baby there is a picture in our photo album of me aboubt four tears old trying to a draw a huge katana from its sheath and my father keeping me from coming any where near the blade.also i have had extensive experiance with fire arms since i was 4 not beacuse my parants are crazzy rednecks but beacuse them wonted me to have a great respect for a wepons ture purpose wich is to kill .and just a little mistake will take take your own life or life of someone you love.
so now after my litle bigiliography id like to get down to my real reasoning behaind posting this and that is to gain an understanding of how i should strucurize my accctives my maxiumize effective traning. i curranly practice quite a bit but i dont know what drills to do how much free play over pell work and how much time to spend on these acctivatise.
i would greatly appreciate any help or advise on the topic. and will check back here soon thanks every one who reads this post.
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