A new word for me "hoplology"

[ddean]

A whole field of study to examine.......

http://www.google.com/search?&q=hoplology

"... Hoplology: the history of arms and armour, their connection and
their transitions, plays the most important part in the annals of
the world."
Burton, Sir Richard F. 1884 The Book of the Sword.
London: Chatto and Windus, p. 1.


"---Hoplology is a word few of us come across in our training, I don't believe many people know what it is. Can you explain to us what Hoplology is?

The field I work in, hoplology, is the study of the evolution and development of human combative behavior and performance. While that certainly includes what are popularly called the "martial arts," hoplology is both much broader and deeper, covering the full spectrum of human combative endeavors. On a popular basis, the current usage of "martial arts" applies rather restrictively and inaccurately to virtually any Asian fighting art, and few if any Western, Mid-Eastern, African, etc. fighting arts. This, unfortunately, is just the start of the myriad inaccuracies and unfounded myths and legends endemic to the "martial arts." Over the years, in hoplology, we have found it best to attempt to maintain a discrete distance from the world of popular "martial arts" in order to remain as objective as possible.
---What do you mean by "martial arts"?"
http://fight.sphosting.com/armstrong.html


http://www.hoplology.com/about.htm
"The IHS exists to study the evolution and development of human combative behavior. This study encompasses the segment of human culture concerned with weapons, armor, combative accouterments and fighting systems, in regard to their technical characteristics and the ways in which they interact with the economic, political, social and religious institutions of human societies. ......
......Technological Hoplology ... Functional Hoplology ... Behavioral Hoplology"

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[ddean]

And here's a couple of articles from hoplologists
I have bookmarked to read soon.

http://www.hoplology.com/weapons_detail.asp?id=7
"CROSS-TRAINING - Classical Chinese and Japanese Systems
Liam Keeley's thoughts on practicing two classical traditions: Chen Style Taijiquan and Tatsumi Ryu heiho. "
http://www.hoplology.com/weapons.asp

http://www.hoplology.com/articles_detail.asp?id=8
"External versus Internal Focus
Behavior and performance capabilities are dependent upon a extremely wide range of factors. A great many of those factors, perhaps most, are virtually uncontrollable. It then is incumbent upon the individual who engages in combat to even more stringently enable himself to learn to control those factors that he does have some control over."
http://www.hoplology.com/articles.asp

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[Lion's Roar]

Yep, that's headed up by R. Hunter, who was one of Donn Dreagger's old students. He's quite knowledgable quite about Samurai arts.

 

[Aardvark]

Kind of was expecting it to be a study of Clarence E. Mulford's books.

 

[BruiseLeee]

I'm told you can't study hoplology without studying hiplology first.

 

[Nasty]

Dang...I thought this thread was about beer...