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Old 02-01-2008, 02:36 PM   #4 (permalink)
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To his credit he appears to be operating at a good skill level, and there is certainly some complex technical knowledge on display here. Sure its a little staged, but having made demo videos myself I appreciate that a certain degree of choreography has to take place, otherwise people will get hurt.

I guess my only criticism is that they seem to be trying to pass this material off as functional, when of course this kind of complex weaponry is very much the art, as opposed to the martial. The tough faces pulled to the camera and the grimacing on the part of his poor demo partner, make it come across like they are trying to convince you of some kind of reality inherent in all those stick&dagger fights we get into in our lives.

Still, its a good demo video of the Doce Pares system.
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