Absurd exercise

Now that my weight is at my ideal level I think I should begin exercises now, as a diet that allowed me to gain weight will continue to do so if my life continues to be sedentary.

I've looked up some info on a few martial arts, though I don't imagine my finances would allow for it. I like the circular, water, nonresistive phylosophy of Hapkido.

But also they supposedly have training for things like War fan, and chain hammers, which appeal to me for the unconventional aspects.

while I was conducting some of the research on those I was also looking at things like Quoits (the only example that comes to mind that most people know is the Chackram from the Xena TV series, which is a bad example by apparently the only one), the egyption Kopesh sword (which some how I just instantly knew the name of without having to search) which is sort of shaped like an Omega or question mark.

Those lead to searchs of sickle and scythe as combat weapons in europe.

Gods I love the internets ability to supply information and suggest further reading.

All this is interesting research and maybe something I will persue as time move forward, but an idea occured to me that is just so perfectly me that I may just tinker around with it.

I was in the dollar store resently where they had bamboo spoons and such. Among them where large salad spoon and 'spork' pairs. Now some of you may have heard me talk in the past about the correlation of sporks and Runcible spoons. Fear not, if you have missed such, I will make an effort to create a detailed Runcible post in the near future.

sufficed to say at this time that I think it would not be entire out of bounds to look at my new large bamboo spork as being in fact a large runcible spoon. thus if I had two I would weild two runcible spoons. And weild them I should.

By doing a bit of research on small hand held wooden weapon combat techniques I may be able to become the worlds first Runcible combat master. I shall have my fighting runcibles for demonstrations at conventions.

It makes me smile to think of it and it's exercise as well. Appropriately absurd, and healthy, but strangely possible and maybe even dangerous to my enemies (if I had any enemies, and even if only by causing them to laugh themselves into hospital, though I'm sure I could make them legitimate weapons). This just has my name written all over it.

Yay for the runcible arts,
take care of yourselves,
Rovingjack