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MasterBates
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I got a lot of undergrad training in street fighting and barroom brawling, although I am out of practice since moving out of Flint.
I just got creative with whatever was available. Best creative use was knocking an aggresive bum with my physics book walking home at 0300 from the lab. Use what you got, when you got it.
The true weapon is between your ears. The rest are tools.
I just got creative with whatever was available. Best creative use was knocking an aggresive bum with my physics book walking home at 0300 from the lab. Use what you got, when you got it.
The true weapon is between your ears. The rest are tools.
I boxed in college and in the Navy when it was "O.K." to hit someone in the face and boxing was still a Navy tradition .... in keeping w/ the spirit of all you Ninja's (above) ... over the years I HAVE kicked a couple of people in the nuts ... 
True words.
True words.
At the risk of stealing someone's avatar, I've got a black belt.... in keeping it real. 
But for real, I was some color of belt (blue?) in Tae Kwon Do and if the Navy lets me have 5 minutes to spare in the fleet, I'd love to throw on a black some day.
But for real, I was some color of belt (blue?) in Tae Kwon Do and if the Navy lets me have 5 minutes to spare in the fleet, I'd love to throw on a black some day.
I took up Karate as a means to improve my boxing skills, particularly my foot work. Fought with PKA for a year. I now have a black belt in Kimber. I miss Navy boxing; got to do a lot of traveling...all up and down the west coast, Norfolk, San Quentin, lots of seedy bars in the Hunter's Point area of Oakland....ahhhhh, the memories.
I always carry a knife and I run real fast.
Didn't your mother warn you about that?
FlyinRock
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I like the testicle choke hold where the voice really goes up past one octave! But, if you don't have a good strong grip, its hard to grab anything of consequence if the BG is wearing tight jeans. OTOH, if he is wearing the popular baggy hang off your ass kind of ....whatever they are, you may have a hard time finding anything to grab! So multiple strikes might do the job?
If you watch the cage fights, the vast majority are won on the ground with either choke holds, or joint locks resulting in submission. Those are the rules and the participants are not sissy. On the street, in combat, I do NOT subscribe to any rules. If it breaks, good. If the puke goes out unconcious, good. If he dies, that is his hard luck. If I lose, shame on me and I'll probably get my ass kicked bloody. If I survive it, Hopefully I won't make or at least avoid the same mistake in the future.
We are military and it requires us to have a martial attitude and training. Anything less is fraud.
If you watch the cage fights, the vast majority are won on the ground with either choke holds, or joint locks resulting in submission. Those are the rules and the participants are not sissy. On the street, in combat, I do NOT subscribe to any rules. If it breaks, good. If the puke goes out unconcious, good. If he dies, that is his hard luck. If I lose, shame on me and I'll probably get my ass kicked bloody. If I survive it, Hopefully I won't make or at least avoid the same mistake in the future.
We are military and it requires us to have a martial attitude and training. Anything less is fraud.
jdnew
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Have a 2nd degree in TKD. Thought I was tough stuff till I walked into a school in college that taught a mixed style. JKD Grappling, Kali, Muay Thai, and Jun Fan Gung Fu (used it mainly to do traps when grappling.) I only took for a semester or so, but I realized very quick that I didn't know squat.
It seems the stuff that really works is the sport-type styles. The kind where you just throw two people on the mat and let them go at it. If it can't be practiced, then it probably isn't practical. I don't buy the "we don't go full speed cuz somebody will get killed" stuff. If I havn't done it in a sparring match I wouldn't do it in the street. People were constantly walking out of class with cuts and bloody faces. Two people would be grappling and the instructor would throw in a knife or a foam baton. Just added friction. Train the way you fight. You guys can keep all that fancy neck-breaking, back-flipping, teleport around the room stuff. I'll stick to what I have seen work in a actually fight.
Then again you would probably kick the crap out of me anyway. Sifu always said that do whatever you can in a fight, if he could vomit on command he would while grappling. So if you can hurl a fireball, more power to ya.
It seems the stuff that really works is the sport-type styles. The kind where you just throw two people on the mat and let them go at it. If it can't be practiced, then it probably isn't practical. I don't buy the "we don't go full speed cuz somebody will get killed" stuff. If I havn't done it in a sparring match I wouldn't do it in the street. People were constantly walking out of class with cuts and bloody faces. Two people would be grappling and the instructor would throw in a knife or a foam baton. Just added friction. Train the way you fight. You guys can keep all that fancy neck-breaking, back-flipping, teleport around the room stuff. I'll stick to what I have seen work in a actually fight.
Then again you would probably kick the crap out of me anyway. Sifu always said that do whatever you can in a fight, if he could vomit on command he would while grappling. So if you can hurl a fireball, more power to ya.
There's something to be said for working the fundamentals, though. Just like you practice a fam pattern before doing tacticals, you work the basics before going in the pit. If you start out just full-speed, it just goes bear v. gorilla and no one learns anything.
Half the advantage of martial arts is discipline in thought and action--you don't get that by just going in and mixing it up. That definitely has its place, once one learns the techniques.
Half the advantage of martial arts is discipline in thought and action--you don't get that by just going in and mixing it up. That definitely has its place, once one learns the techniques.
I'm 6 feet tall and weigh more than most of you. I'm a lower level "MIT" (manatee in training- the kind without the psycho-ness and bitchy-ness).
Seriously, though.. There needs to be more self defense classes. I keep my head up, when walking around, have my keys out, etc. Like Pickle, I have a knife in my diaper bag (I really do!). I grew up in a tiny town in SE Iowa, (and went to college in central Iowa) so I never had to worry about it. It wasn't until we moved to JAX (the first time, in 2004) and we lived in the scary ass apartments just to the north of the flight line (yeah, you know where), that I had to worry about it.
I knew basically nothing about self-defense then and spent a lot of time alone, with Pickle at VP30 and then as a nugget. Luckily, at that time, I had a "2D" security system. Killian (my 80# Weimaraner) and Guinness (my 95# black Belgian Shepard) were enough to keep most people away. I don't have Guinness anymore, but Killian still raises a hell of a racket.
I can ear-twitch with the best of them, and I am sooo not above kicking a dude in the balls and then getting them in the Adam's Apple with my knuckles.
Seriously, though.. There needs to be more self defense classes. I keep my head up, when walking around, have my keys out, etc. Like Pickle, I have a knife in my diaper bag (I really do!). I grew up in a tiny town in SE Iowa, (and went to college in central Iowa) so I never had to worry about it. It wasn't until we moved to JAX (the first time, in 2004) and we lived in the scary ass apartments just to the north of the flight line (yeah, you know where), that I had to worry about it.
I knew basically nothing about self-defense then and spent a lot of time alone, with Pickle at VP30 and then as a nugget. Luckily, at that time, I had a "2D" security system. Killian (my 80# Weimaraner) and Guinness (my 95# black Belgian Shepard) were enough to keep most people away. I don't have Guinness anymore, but Killian still raises a hell of a racket.
I can ear-twitch with the best of them, and I am sooo not above kicking a dude in the balls and then getting them in the Adam's Apple with my knuckles.