Well, I’m going to continue on with chit chat about weapons this
week. I really appreciated the discussion
about the weapon challenges of the team members this past meeting. Challenges like training the non-dominant
hand, working with injuries, expectations in taking on a school form, vs.
coming up with your own.
I didn’t speak much about working with the dart this past meeting. I think it is because I am trying to wrap my
head around where I am at, and how I am going to get where I want to be. I want to learn new and interesting
techniques, but I know under the time crunch for beta version at the end of the
month, I won’t be able to do that. I have found that coming up with a rope dart
technique is very very challenging. When something formulates, it seems to take
an incredible amount of repetition to be able to duplicate just the single
technique. If I look at the basics, the
simple shoot has so many little details that a person could spend a year simply
perfecting the accuracy and power in that alone.
Speaking of the basic shoot, to me, the dart is a weapon that requires
extreme accuracy and precision to be effectively called a weapon. Doing
techniques that show fancy spins and wraps are entertaining, but if the dart
cannot hit a small target (accuracy) and duplicate that result (precision) then
it hasn’t been mastered. If the dart is flung with accuracy and precision, but
lacks power or is canted off of straight from the body, its effectiveness is
again minimized. This is really where it
differs from the meteor hammer which relies more on blunt force trauma.
So this is the duel going on in my head. The fight between flamboyancy
and effectiveness. In reality I know
just perfecting the basics may take a lifetime to master.
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