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When he has been practicing jujitsu they use a lot of the principles using more common household objects like a broomstick or a dowelrod, I've just never seen an official "japaneese" one before or knew what they were called.
Actually a friend of mine has this long plastic coated oversized metal "key" about 7 inches long that looks like it is just a novel key chain attachment, but he can use it exactly like one of those yawara-bo. So he actually carries a concealed weapon with him at all times, and it is totally legal.
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There must be more hatrackers that like weapons. At least we have Psycho triad and Mackillian.
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And here's a mirror of the kata page for the iaido, because geocities has a bandwidth cap: here.
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I like weapons. I have a knife with a dragon handle. But am saving the $ for a katana. Must have one. I fenced for a while, dull bladed french foils lost their appeal.
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Hey, I just bought my girlfriend a sword for her birthday. Granted, this shows more that she likes weapons than showing that I do, but still. I'm definitely all about the weaponry.
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Val - Real, True, Nice katanas can be very expensive. When you get the money (I'd say don't spend less than $500), I'd do a lot of research before purchasing. There are very knowledgable and picky people out there that can help choose appropriate people to buy from.
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I love knives and guns and such. Yes, I suppose that means I like weapons. I never thought of it like that. I just love beautiful precision metal instruments of all sorts. Calipers and micrometers and so on are also very nice. Lathes and milling machines too. So it isn't weaponry, per se, that gives rise to this love, but maybe it's a love of beautiful craftsmanship and artistry. Love of functional things that are well made, as well as beautiful.
I'm reading the letters of J.R.R. Tolkien and he really does dislike machines. I feel so heartbroken about that. I too love unspoiled countryside, and dislike pollution (there's a coke plant across town that has heaps of burnt slag that reminds me exactly of Sauron's realm, of the way things were in Mordor.) But still, as a waterwheel is beautiful, and a wheelbarrow, so are all machines, if they are well made, and in their right places. It's people's tastes which need to be schooled. They choose the cheap and ugly and throwaway every time over the beautiful and well made that lasts but naturally costs more. So it's the market that determines the ugliness of machines.
But as a maker of machines, what is right? Should I give the customer what they want, or indulge my own creative urges toward beauty and purity and function?
I wish I could talk these things over with the Professor. I feel grieved that he dislikes machines so much.
He said to Christopher who was apparently flying planes in WW2 that he felt about British warplanes the way a hobbit would feel if fellow hobbits were learning to ride the fell beasts of the Nazgul for the defence of the Shire.
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I feel the same way you do Anne Kate; a well crafted almost anything, that the maker poured his or her being into making, is almost invariably a beautiful thing.
You know, the other day I was driving along, looking at some really ugly metal power line towers (the kind that look like wire frame structures, if that helps convey what I'm talking about), and got to thinking about how beautiful they could look if we just took the time and energy to make them so. They could be opportunities for startlingly beautiful sculptures all over the country if we let them.
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Yes! I would love it if we just elvished up everything, making it gratuitously beautiful. Wouldn't that be cool? I love the way the highway bridge abutments in the Phoenix area have those southwest designs on them, for instance. But we could go much further than that. We could make the shapes beautiful too. I would so love to do that sort of work. Art and engineering combined. But it costs more. People don't want to pay more for stuff. They don't care that much. Posts: 2843 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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