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**Zarekylin75** · 06-30-2010, 12:22 PM

Had to go look up LARP, knew what SCA meant. Yeah I've got a problem with "American Weekend Warrior" and "weapons based martial arts" in the same room too. It is without dispute that lots of folks join kendo, iaido or jodo because they "want to be a samurai" but they don't stick with it long, it just isn't that kind of an experience. The SCA is much more than rattan and duct tape, it's costumes and feasts and a whole social group. While kendo is a social group, it's much more about whacking each other with sticks. A few beers afterward is certainly social, but so is a few beers after baseball. Groups like the SCA are much more encompassing, they're about the role playing rather than about the practice or the sport... I generalize but this seems to me to be the difference between the "weekend warrior" and the martial artist. One is about a social group and the other is about the practice itself so they tend to accumulate different folks wanting different things.

Kim.

06-30-2010, 12:22 PM	#3
Zarekylin75 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 440 Senior Member	Had to go look up LARP, knew what SCA meant. Yeah I've got a problem with "American Weekend Warrior" and "weapons based martial arts" in the same room too. It is without dispute that lots of folks join kendo, iaido or jodo because they "want to be a samurai" but they don't stick with it long, it just isn't that kind of an experience. The SCA is much more than rattan and duct tape, it's costumes and feasts and a whole social group. While kendo is a social group, it's much more about whacking each other with sticks. A few beers afterward is certainly social, but so is a few beers after baseball. Groups like the SCA are much more encompassing, they're about the role playing rather than about the practice or the sport... I generalize but this seems to me to be the difference between the "weekend warrior" and the martial artist. One is about a social group and the other is about the practice itself so they tend to accumulate different folks wanting different things. Kim.
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