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Skaven Dave (2/21/2008)
FAnyone who's interested JimSeph is an expert in WMD and runs classes in the West Midlands/Coventry area.Do you mean WMA, or does his expertise extend to nukes, bio-weapons and mustard gas? 
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theshoveller (2/23/2008)
Do you mean WMA, or does his expertise extend to nukes, bio-weapons and mustard gas?
It's important for sword fighters to keep up with the latest technological developments. Besides, nukes were invented half a century ago, they're historical weapons now...
I'd love to get hold of a copy of Talhoffer's Fectbuch on how to use nukes but apparently they're really rare.
History is an important source for LRP. Along with other works of fiction.
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| 'Expert in WMA' *thinks* thats really odd. Thats like claiming to be an 'expert in Eastern Martial Arts.' Which no one does. They claim to be expert in one usually. Claiming to be 'expert' in everything is surely a lie. Is WMA a made up grouping? Does it have a governing body? As far as I was aware (and I was trained for stage by John Waller, one of the authors mentioned here) There is no agreement and anyone claiming to 'know' actually means they made it up based on a book they saw and made some guess's at what the diagrams and text meant.
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| I've never heard Jim claim to be an expert in WMA. The website talks about Fiore and 14th century European martial arts. I think this was largely Dave giving props to Jim, who is really very handy with a sword. Most Eastern martial arts are made up based on what someone read in a book somewhere, or got told by their master. I should know, cos I'm trained in kung fu by Simon Sheppard, who was trained by Vince Lewis, who was trained by (Master) Jeremy Yau, etc. etc. etc.
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| Thanks to Dave for the comment of support, but no im not an expert in WMA or WMD for that matter, but Talhoffers guide to the use of tactical nukes would be amazing reading. I do instruct what i know of the fighting style of a specific historical master (Fiore DeiLiberi), which is very different to claiming mastery. We have just been assesed and passed as a school by the BFHS (British Federation for Historical Swordplay) the UK governing body for the study of historical european martial arts. Which basicaly means that what we teach is martialy sound (ie as far as anyone can tell without people actualy ending up dead it would work in a fight), is historicaly accurate (ie we dont make stuff up) and isnt KungFu with a longsword. So short of getting hold of a time machine we are about as close as your going to get.
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JimSeph (2/25/2008)
Thanks to Dave for the comment of support, but no im not an expert in WMA or WMD for that matter, Cool, fair do's then.... Frankly your explanation seems perfectly detailed and indicates exactly what you do do. Which is not what I worried was being claimed. Ta!
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| WMA means 'Western Martial Arts'. There are many groups dotted across the UK and other parts of the world that look at things from 12th century right through to 19th/20th century sword-fighting, wrestling (unarmed combat), single stick, bayonet, etc... the list is pretty much endless. There are several governing bodies trying to keep these groups together under one roof. I would suggest looking at: http://www.hemac.org/index.php http://www.thearma.org/ http://www.bfhs.org/ - this site also has excellent links to foreign Swordplay groups. No-one poports to be an 'expert' in swordfighting (if they do they are pompous arses). It is an art which died out many years ago, and we are all learning how to simulate the techniques described in the fight-books written by masters of the time.
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