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HONOR YOUR PIRATE ANCESTRY!!!
FIGHT IN THEIR ANCIENT WAYS!!
LEARN THE WAYS OF MOJO AND BECOME HOSTIS HUMANI GENERIS!!!
TELL THE WORLD TO GO TO HELL AND BEAT EACH OTHER WITH STICKS!!!
EVERYMAN KENDO, THE WAY OF THE CUTLASS!
That's right! PIRATE MARTIAL ARTS!!! Yes.. I know... That's nonsense. You know all sorts of fancy sword stuff with all kinds of reasons why that's ridiculous.. we know.
Don't care.
Not much theory... LOTS of hard practice. We stand to no specific text, but occasionally steal from all of them. Old game is foundation for everything. Begins without footwork as a foundation exercise. Way of pirate is a cutlass to the skull. Only by constant hard dojo-style practice at the crezze art of singlestick can we achieve the pirate mojo, a strange variant of ki-ai, which can best be described as the "not giving of the shit."
Do you believe that?
We also play at backsword (with shorter blade length) and cutlass fencing, and occasionally we just hit each other without regard to timing or touches ("The New Providence Rules") for spirit because we read about it in a book. It's ugly but really interesting and natural.
Pirate Dojo is a singlestick league made of second-string blue-collar, lovable, slightly bohemian fighting folk from the world's suburbs, mill-towns, bowling alleys and mental wards. We fight an ugly art for ugly (though irresistibly sexy) people.
While the standard dojo is filled with rigorous, regimented, disciplined social behavior (stuffy) the Pirate Dojo are footloose, fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants, devil-may-care roughnecks. We're the losers; the guys rejected from other dojo, the guys that just dig the Pirate Dojo style and wouldn't have it any other way. The guys that will be watching your back with a nutty, cavalier smile, hacking wildly with a cutlass in one hand and beer and pizza in the other.
Does this sound like you?
Pick up a singlestick and join us.
CapnFool
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