Sandra Dodd

Someone wrote:

-=-My husband teaches at a medieval martial arts school here in the
Raleigh, NC area (www.emaaknights.com) and he says there are schools
like this popping up all over the country. Maybe you can do an on-
line search to see if there is one in your area. Kids start out using
foam safety swords and then they progress to live steel. Perhaps this
would be a way for your son to participate in martial arts. -=-

Keith (MY husband) has done SCA for nearly 30 years, and keeps up
pretty well with swordfighting styles and forms (he went to some
trouble to obtain a book about a questionably ancient form on some
little island around Scotland or some such (he's in a meeting at
work and I couldn't find the book in his office). He wrote this,
about the note above when I sent it saying "I hadn't heard of this":

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Looks like someone opened a dojo for �western� fighting arts. I�ve
not heard of it before this. All google hits were in the NC area so
I�m not convinced about the �all over the country� statement.
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There have been a couple of SCA guys who have done seminars for other
SCA guys for money which was a very strange change in the way all
that was taught. (Well... one I know of for sure did "mundane"
seminars, and one sold a book of his personal technique, but I don't
think he taught it outside of SCA events.)

It's interesting how a tradition will jump ship like that. I'm sure
the Okinawan guys were king of surprised/appalled the first few times
a westerner opened a karate school.

Sandra

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Sandra Dodd

I was wrong about the Scotland guess. Sweden:
Keith wrote:




http://www.stavinternational.org/

Stav is the system. The family is in Sweden.




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Marin

Sorry if I was being confusing...I didn't mean to imply that there
were EMAA schools all over the country. The one here is the only
one by that name. My husband just told me that European or Western
Martial Arts schools were starting to pop up all over the place. If
you do a google search for "Western martial arts" or "European
martial arts" you can find some academy listings.

Marin



--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd
<Sandra@S...> wrote:
>
> Someone wrote:
>
> -=-My husband teaches at a medieval martial arts school here in the
> Raleigh, NC area (www.emaaknights.com) and he says there are
schools
> like this popping up all over the country. Maybe you can do an on-
> line search to see if there is one in your area. Kids start out
using
> foam safety swords and then they progress to live steel. Perhaps
this
> would be a way for your son to participate in martial arts. -=-
>
> Keith (MY husband) has done SCA for nearly 30 years, and keeps up
> pretty well with swordfighting styles and forms (he went to some
> trouble to obtain a book about a questionably ancient form on
some
> little island around Scotland or some such (he's in a meeting at
> work and I couldn't find the book in his office). He wrote this,
> about the note above when I sent it saying "I hadn't heard of
this":
>
> ===============
> Looks like someone opened a dojo for "western" fighting arts.
I've
> not heard of it before this. All google hits were in the NC area
so
> I'm not convinced about the "all over the country" statement.
> ==============
>
> There have been a couple of SCA guys who have done seminars for
other
> SCA guys for money which was a very strange change in the way all
> that was taught. (Well... one I know of for sure did "mundane"
> seminars, and one sold a book of his personal technique, but I
don't
> think he taught it outside of SCA events.)
>
> It's interesting how a tradition will jump ship like that. I'm
sure
> the Okinawan guys were king of surprised/appalled the first few
times
> a westerner opened a karate school.
>
> Sandra
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>