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Hmm... Should I get into dumb VR games like BeatSaber? I want to do something that feels like intense fighting. Biking fast enough it's satisfying is too dangerous. Maybe unrealistic point based karate would be fun. I tried fencing once but it was shockingly lame. I'd join a dodgeball league but there aren't any, everyone wants to do like baseball and volleyball. Hmmmm. I wonder if paintball would be fun or tedious, I could see it going either way.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You can do martial arts without free sparring. You can take stage combat class. Still some risk of betting bonked but much less. You could do foil fencing, idk if it's even possible to concuss someone with a foil. Same with shinai fencing, hard to concuss someone in a helmet with a bamboo stick. You could get a wooden or plastic sword and a shield, build a pell (training dummy) and practice on that. You could take up katana cutting, which is all about precise cutting and less sparring.you could check out hema and see how that feels. You could do archery. You could practice throwing knives until you get real good at it. You could take up airsoft. You could get a vr rig, there's lots of vr combat games. You could take up any kind of dance. Dance is like 70% of the way to martial arts.

I saw you didn't like fencing. You could check out medieval fencing with the sca or look in to boffer larps. Arrow tag is a thing in some lpaces.

Oh, if you have a vr rig there's a totally bonkers game called Rumble. It's earthbending: the vr game. It's athletic for a vr game and you need to be really on your game in comp play.

There's flag football. It really rewards good footwork and you probably won't smack your head.q

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

oh shit that game looks cool