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Self Defense stories
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voodooqueen
DAR Lapsarian
The best self-defense tricks are to be learned from combat vets--if they think you have a good attitude and will use what they teach in self defense they will usually show you a little something.
(I hope you all knife carriers have those things sheathed--we wouldn't want to hear about any self-inflicted wounds.)
(I hope you all knife carriers have those things sheathed--we wouldn't want to hear about any self-inflicted wounds.)
Chuck's not just self-defense, he's like dropping a high yield thermonuclear device!!
lol... you mean that stupid-ass show on Nat geo? "I can learn your art in 3 days and fight with it..." That show annoys me.
FlyinRock
Registered User
Yes indeed. The first time you get popped in the nose and the tears and pain come, you'll say "Wahoo this is serious shit..." and the learning starts. <ggg>
ANY serious martial arts training wil bring pain of some sort or other and to just make believe is going to get you into serious trouble. Therein is the rub.
Even though I try to avoid any permanent damage during our training sessions, sometimes it happens. I've got scar tissue on my nose from being scraped on the canvas more than a few times and few twinges in joints when I don't work out regularly.
Too much TV crap that doesn't show the actual after effects and too many people believe that crap is real. Notice I'm trying to clean up my act here? Thank you very much .....
Semper Fi
Rocky
ANY serious martial arts training wil bring pain of some sort or other and to just make believe is going to get you into serious trouble. Therein is the rub.
Even though I try to avoid any permanent damage during our training sessions, sometimes it happens. I've got scar tissue on my nose from being scraped on the canvas more than a few times and few twinges in joints when I don't work out regularly.
Too much TV crap that doesn't show the actual after effects and too many people believe that crap is real. Notice I'm trying to clean up my act here? Thank you very much .....
Semper Fi
Rocky
FlyinRock
Registered User
Guns and kids. When I was growing up in the 40's, my old man was in the Pacific USMC. On the rare occasions when he came home, I got to snag some of his time and he didn't have a clue how to talk to a little kid. Hell he'd just come from a combat zone and had that 1000 yard stare. As time went on, I got to go hunting with him at the age of 9-10? I was armed with a deadly Red Ryder BB gun to back up Dad and his hunting partner.
I spent a lot of time at the rifle range where he became the NCOIC and got more than a few Marines who wanted to show me how to shoot. As years went by, I handled more than a few rifles and pistols and even hid some of them in secret places when I wasn't supposed to have them. My mother, god love her, hated firearms. That caused me to have to lie to her when I hid the guns but I never gave up on them. I bought my first pistol at the age of 16 from a dealer who was a retired Marine and team shooter who knew our family. With a "wink wink" I got a Colt Steel Commander .45acp and eventually carried it to Korea with me.
My kids have long been exposed to firearms and the inherent safety lessons. As one pointed out though, I have no control over neighbor kids or visitors and their training on firearms. There is a huge danger. Do you see a liability factor here? hmmmmm
As I said before, if you can get to a firearm what makes you think your kids can't as well? They are much more intelligent and creative than we often give them credit for. Take a look back in your days and how you "outwitted" your parents ??????
It does take some careful thought and considerations when it comes to guns and kids but don't sell them short. They might be the ones to save your ass in a home invasion?!
Semper Fi
Rocky
I spent a lot of time at the rifle range where he became the NCOIC and got more than a few Marines who wanted to show me how to shoot. As years went by, I handled more than a few rifles and pistols and even hid some of them in secret places when I wasn't supposed to have them. My mother, god love her, hated firearms. That caused me to have to lie to her when I hid the guns but I never gave up on them. I bought my first pistol at the age of 16 from a dealer who was a retired Marine and team shooter who knew our family. With a "wink wink" I got a Colt Steel Commander .45acp and eventually carried it to Korea with me.
My kids have long been exposed to firearms and the inherent safety lessons. As one pointed out though, I have no control over neighbor kids or visitors and their training on firearms. There is a huge danger. Do you see a liability factor here? hmmmmm
As I said before, if you can get to a firearm what makes you think your kids can't as well? They are much more intelligent and creative than we often give them credit for. Take a look back in your days and how you "outwitted" your parents ??????
It does take some careful thought and considerations when it comes to guns and kids but don't sell them short. They might be the ones to save your ass in a home invasion?!
Semper Fi
Rocky
I took an escrima stick right to the dome piece when I was 13, and a damn maglite to the nose in practicals when I was 19. Yea...the eyes watered a little bit on both of those, but rock's right.
"If you dick this up, you will get hurt" goes with so many life lessons.
"If you dick this up, you will get hurt" goes with so many life lessons.
I know we will be teaching the little Pickles how to use the firearms in the house (including the Pickle Diva). The problem now is that Pickle Jr is 29 months and the Pickle Diva is 9 months. We're still trying to learn how to communicate with Jr. Teaching firearm safety is a little beyond his realm right now. That's why we're talking how to keep them out of their hands for now. Teaching the ins and outs of safety is coming, just not today.
As far as NOT having guns in the house, that is NOT an option in Jacksonville, Florida. We live in a comfortable upper middle class neighborhood. IPs, retired Chiefs and such live either here, or just south of here, where PropWife and her family live.
Guess what?! People still F***IN BREAK IN HERE! People still break into houses in my parents neighborhood in Southeast Iowa! It has 20k people! If you think break-ins are rare, then don't come crying to me when YOUR kid gets snatched in the middle of the night.
WE HAVE A DOG. WE HAVE A SECURITY SYSTEM. AND, YOU DAMN WELL BET THAT WE ALSO HAVE GUNS IN OUR HOUSE.
(going to another part of the room now... I'm a little hot under the collar)
As far as NOT having guns in the house, that is NOT an option in Jacksonville, Florida. We live in a comfortable upper middle class neighborhood. IPs, retired Chiefs and such live either here, or just south of here, where PropWife and her family live.
Guess what?! People still F***IN BREAK IN HERE! People still break into houses in my parents neighborhood in Southeast Iowa! It has 20k people! If you think break-ins are rare, then don't come crying to me when YOUR kid gets snatched in the middle of the night.
WE HAVE A DOG. WE HAVE A SECURITY SYSTEM. AND, YOU DAMN WELL BET THAT WE ALSO HAVE GUNS IN OUR HOUSE.
(going to another part of the room now... I'm a little hot under the collar)
FlyinRock
Registered User
For some reason that reminded me of the time when I invited a gorgeous young woman to one of my Aikido classes (we had a thing going on at the time) and when she stepped into the dojo wearing a painted on purple colored outfit, two of my very active students went into shock right in the middle of a face strike. They were both staring at Ms Viviano and one of them got a bloody nose. It wasn't Ms Viviano! I still laugh at how stupid they both looked after the fact and how both of them learned not to be distracted no matter what during close combat.
Then there was the time when I got tossed like a sack of shit when I got distracted looking at a female student ..... Lessons learned as we slide down the razor blade of life. hmmmm
Semper Fi
Rocky
Then there was the time when I got tossed like a sack of shit when I got distracted looking at a female student ..... Lessons learned as we slide down the razor blade of life. hmmmm
Semper Fi
Rocky