Christian Based Martial Art

Fine.
So, the claim is that a mythical deity is answering your request for the ability to defend yourself by mentally downloading to you techniques for a weapon that you will not legally be able to carry in public, and would have a hard time justifying the use of in a court of law. The reason he is doing this is because you think swords are 'cool'.

Forgive me if I don't take this kid's beliefs seriously.

 

Swords are legal to carry were i live. and i asked for the ability to use swords. That's why he gave me this ability.

 

You don't appear to have read what I wrote, Dan. I said you should feel free to critique that idea. But there are plenty of perfectly reasonable Christians at MAP and elsewhere who aren't especially asking for the sort of mockery that "ol' beardy" intones.

To be clear, that wasn't a mod enforcement. I just think we can do better.

 

First off there's no reason to call me a kid. I'm 22 year's old. Secondly i never said sword's are cool. I said that i liked them and asked god to help me with wielding them.

 

I'd be interested to hear where you live, then.
And even if swords are legal to carry, I doubt its legal to hack someone to death with one.

 

Does that honestly sound like the sort of thing that an all-powerful, benevolent power SHOULD be doing though?

If I said "I like pancakes, and I asked God to give me some," you wouldn't think that inappropriate? Because what you're describing isn't a self-defense necessity. You said yourself that you live in the middle of nowhere. What, precisely, is threatening your loved ones? Is it the sort of threat that's going to give you the opportunity to grab a sword? Because otherwise, this falls pretty squarely in the "I just want this" camp. And I don't think that God is in the business of just giving people what they want.

 

So would I. I would also contest the idea that swords are legal to carry. I can't think of anywhere in the Western world where that's true. Carrying a sword about is likely to raise hackles with the cops most places, I'd think. And actually using one, in self-defense or no, is probably going to land the OP in the nearest penitentiary.

 

You were gifted the ability to use swords when you got lucky and ended up human shaped. We can all use swords. The difference is some of us can use them well.

 

There was a case like that when I lived in South Dakota... a guy 'defended' himself with a cheap samurai sword... he got to spend some time in Sioux Falls Penitentiary....

 

Well i live in Tucson,AZ. Not exactly in the middle of nowhere but just enough to be far away from the nearest police department. There are plenty of people out here were i live and lots of vandal's and people braking into house's.

 

So you are training (poorly) to break the law on the basis that "you probably wont get caught"

Asinine

 

Tucson has a raft of schools

Get a job and start training; this deluded fantasy of yours needs to stop

 

There's an aspect to this that I find fascinating, and that is how, once you set your mind to something you get back more than you put in.

I don't believe in any gods, but visualisation, whether that's from training methods and meditation, dreams or daydreaming, can be very beneficial to a person's progress and upkeep. Your brain doesn't stop mulling this stuff over when you finish your day's training, or even when you go to sleep.

Of course, that is not much use without proper instruction and other people to practice with, that's a given. However, whether you believe these ideas and visualisations come from God, the spirits of dead Samurai, the subconscious, or whatever is beside the point.

I'm more inclined to say to Rojack79: shine on you crazy diamond, hold onto that fantasy, but find skilled people to inform it.

 

Haha!! Thank's for the positive feedback and encouragement.

 

I have to agree with what the majority of people have already stated here. Stop, stop now.

You need to go and study, regardless of your inspiration you need experience, much more experience before you create your own style. Do some reading, Jigoro Kano studied Kito Ryu Jujutsu among other forms of jujutsu for many years before founding Judo. Same goes with Morihei Ueshiba, he studied Daito-Ryu and had a very solid understanding of other MA before creating aikido. Same thing with Bruce Lee. So on and so forth.

What you lack is experience. As Hannibal said. You have options. Go find a school. Study for 10 years + then if you must, you can start exploring the idea of creating a MA.

Good luck.

 

Ah come on man, your doing it all wrong.

You can't just start off making shocking statements right off the bat - especially when its clear you know very little of either the Christian religion or swordsmanship.

You've gotta hang around for a bit. Make some reasonable statements like any other gadgie on here, then when they've dropped their guard - you put yer batter on the chips.

Makes it more interesting and you get the pleasure of winding up the members a lot more that way.

The way you're going, you'll be done soon - its already getting boring. Even Hannibal is "meh" - can almost hear him sigh; not licking his chops the way he used to when one of you'd start bleating.

How sad.

As my old daideo used to say when he took me as a wee-child out on his fishing boat outside the Shankill -

" tha feyne arts a gan out of tha trolls, today. There's no snoggin, no warming - just no wobble to a troll at all now "

Actually, I don't know what he said, I could never understand a thing he uttered.

 

So, you are a fellow, who is being told by god how to use a sword, who has stated rather convincingly that it is not illegal to carry a sword where he lives?

"Sir, why do you have a sword?"
"God told me i should carry it"
"Fair enough, on your way"