Just curious, is waving pointy sticks around at each other considered a martial art? at all? in any respect? no?

lonedell

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I have no idea, but fencing is good fun :)

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with no knowledge whatsoever i say yes

off to google and find out

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i made a fence once... there wasn't much fighting involved.

*gives fatboy his joke book back*

I'd say it is a martial art in the same way that Kendo is.

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What makes you say that? I would not consider it a MA and surprised others would think it was.

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I have a friend who is very good at fencing...



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not that i know anything about fencing or kendo, but they both involve waving a pretend sword around, so if one is a martial art, surely the other is too!

edit - if you wiki 'martial art', fencing is listed as one of the martial arts using weapons. of course any muppet can submit stuff to wiki so it isn't necessarily true!

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i wouldnt say its a martial art, was never described to me in that way, more a sport really like tennis or football, i did fencing for a while, its good fun and can be quite demanding physically

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How do you define a martial art?

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I would define a Martial Art as to having some form of philosophy etc behind.
If you study Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Judo there is more to it than just basically beating the shite out of somebody. They teach respect, integrity, self control, etc.

Where as Martial Sports are like Boxing. Train hard as hell to beat they other before they beat you.

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