Gun Sau: the new martial sport of close-quarters gunfighting

[GunFu]

...so basically...its paint ball with strikes?

 

It's more like chi sau/trapping hands with pistols. It's kind of hard to explain unless you've seen the movie; two guys at point-blank range, both armed with handguns, using lots of complex parries/counter-parries/traps/etc. to get a clear shot at each other. It's all about keeping the other guy's gun away from your targets while trying to get your own gun on-line. To play it as a game you have to stick to certain rules like not just pulling the gun back to your hip and blasting away, limited targets (head and chest), etc.

[Jbone1]

I loved that movie with the gun katas.

 

Sounds cool.

[GunFu]

We just picked up some LazerTag guns for Gun Sau training. $150 and probably way more high-tech than we really need but these babies have heads-up displays,built in computers, etc. Haven't tried them for Gun Sau training yet because we will need to modify them, but I'll post here when we do.

[GunFu]

Yeah, the guns we got are great but too high tech so we are looking at something simpler. Anyway it would be great if anyone is interested in joining our Forum and helping to develop the art.

 

http://www.setbb.com/phpbb/?mforum=gunsau

[Drunken Monkey]

.....i'm not sure what to think about this.....

 

i think maybe you need to emphasise the 'game' aspect a bit more.

 

y'know, get it into people's heads that this is not a serious self defence thing.

[GunFu]

Yeah, it's so weird - I keep posting on different forums and it's like half the people just do not get the "game" side of it and assume I'm nuts The martial arts people keep saying "this would never work on the street", the airsoft people keep saying "never try that at a tournament" etc. I think some people are just so wrapped up in their own worlds that they have a hard time getting a new idea.

 

Anyway for the record Gun Sau is a martial SPORT or GAME based on a fight scene from a science fiction movie. It has nothing to do with real guns or real self defense, its played with harmless lazertag guns or pump-action waterpistols. The aim of Gun Sau is to play hard, have fun and develop skills while keepinjg some of the flavour and flashiness of movie fight scenes.

 

Thanks,

 

GunFu