Open Flavor Friday: Martial Arts

Our weekly off-topic post usually focuses on flavor, although other subjects have been broached — the flu, many movies, D&D and more. This week, as we get to know each other a bit through what it is besides soccer let’s talk martial arts, both Western and Eastern. Yes, this is inspired by the Sounders archery event.

For most of us martial arts are no longer about training to fight, but instead the study of how people used to fight and what has become science and art.

Archery is one of those. I started my archery journey in Scouts, and it continued in the SCA. There I managed to also study the joy of being a light fighter. In their parlance that means people were not allowed to hit me about…