One of the interesting things which has been happening with WMA is that it has gotten popular in Asia, as it has generally proven superior to most Eastern weapon fencing styles, partially because most of them have more or less evolved into sports resulting in overly formal fighting practices.

There is a guy named Lance Chan in Hong Kong who makes sparring weapons and is a big advocate of WMA, and a pretty good fencer. He is also loves to make video clipss of himelf and his friends sparring, which he posts on his website. These can be quite interesting for a variety of reasons.

You can see a bunch of their clips here, mostly in Real Player Format

http://www.rsw.com.hk/videos.htm

This one is rather ironic, a Canadian guy who is an expert at EMA (a Korean variant of Japanese Kendo) fighting a Chinese guy (Lance) who is a student of German Longsword Fencing.... (some of these are in .mpeg format)

http://www.rsw.com.hk/activities.htm#jason

Lance is a friendly guy, fluent in English and will respond to email. He would probably find ordo procincuts interesting if he knew about it. He sells some pretty well regarded sparring weapons made with a rather innovative technique (no duct tape)

Anyway, I thought y'all might find this interesting.


DB