MasterPain

The cut down one was simply awesome. What would such a thing cost me?

I have stabby/slashy/smashy things within 10 feet of me and on my person at all times. I'm in the market for a cheap boomstick as well. Hail to the king, baby.

Did you see the preview? Daryl uses enhanced interrogation techniques..

Statistics can be hard to find and misleading. Going on one person's memory of things they know about in a 3-county area over 20 years can be even worse. I can provide the latter. Around here, we had a group of 3 or 4 people who would beat someone until they needed plastic surgery over an insult. 2 of them were shot, one fatally after (from what I've heard starting a fight with a Texan after kicking his truck as they walked by.) Other than that, a guy shot the guy who had been beating his sister. Unfortunately, the abuser was unarmed and not being a threat at the time, so that guy is serving 20 or 30 years. There has been a couple of unrelated cases of people going nuts and killing people with carpenter's hammers. 2 stabbings in the course of committing another crime. A middle aged man beat his elderly father to death with his bare hands. A body was found riddled with stotgun wounds, sitting beside a backhoe in a rural area, that's all I know about that one. And a man with a pistol and an AK walked through a restraining order and killed his ex-wife and her mother. Out of the ones involving home invasion, that is the only one I can think of involving a firearm.

Not in the traditional sense...

That's very unfortunately often the case. Of course part of abuse is the brainwashing that says the victim deserves it. s hard as it may be, family and friends need to open up as soon as the person is willing to come back. Also, they should report abuse whether the victim wishes them to or not.

You never gave us your answer. Can you top Bruce Leeroy or the Monobrow-ed zombie-fighting priest?

Effective headbutting requires good position and grappling ability. If I'm confident that a fight is one on one, there is nowhere I feel more comfortable than on top of them. Then it's not a fair fight anymore. When both people are standing, they are on equal ground. Fairness and equality are not positive things in a fight.

No, because the standard headbutt is in my list of "things that only sound good to people who haven't thought it through". Impact head butts on hard targets - like a skull - have the disadvantage that they clobber two people for the price of one. . A proper headbutt uses the part of the forehead where my hairline used to be as a striking surface. The target should be temples, jawline, orbital bones, the same as you'd hit with your fists. You wouldn't punch someone in the forehead, why headbutt them there? With that said, sure they could headbutt from the proper positions, they could also knee to the groin or jump out of the cage and hit them with a folding chair.

This seems like a point to expand upon, as the whole polyester pile concept just seems awful for everyone involved. Although I do consider rugby to be a great spectator sport.

Episode 2!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuuKMCN9f_g

I think every self-defense minded person with a strong striking base art should learn at least the following from a decent grappler. sprawl with underhook and head control a guard sweep against a person with a high base and a guard sweep against someone with a low base how to lock down the guard to neutralize attack until help arrives guard recovery and bump sweep from bottom mount guard recovery and stand up from bottom side control rear mount escape and rear naked choke defense guillotine defense keylock

I see where you guys are coming from, but from what I understand, he wrote an excellent history of the art of Shotokan, and if i had an interest in that, I'd want to read his book. If I want to improve my boxing, being a short heavy guy, I'd watch Mike Tyson. If I was into whatever it is Martha Stewart does, I'd watch her show.

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That guy is great too, just wish he had a larger body of work.

Lam Ching Ying, of course! As for the poll question, I've never seen real fight footage of either of them.

Well, when writing about someone who has been dead since 1945, all you can go on is what they wrote, or what people have said about them. So if you can't find anything written by the man himself, then you're writing a 3rd hand account, influenced by opinion, which would not hold up in court. According to Wikipedia, which you could say the same of,he was the grandfather of several traditional styles. He also encouraged his students to go to brothels, presumably to recruit new students so they could learn traditional karate values. But perhaps we should just listen to Dr Clayton, who is a Dr as well as a Paladin Press author.

"an incredible fighter" and "a bitter amateur." How does that work?

So, rubber guard tonight?

If you're facing Roddy Piper in a falls count anywhere match, then yes.

Life is too long and the world is too large to think that way. Even if you are too late to be the best in the world, it's not too late to be good. Even if for some reason you could never be good, there should still be a great many years left to enjoy it.

I come from an area where people say things like a while back ago. Or ain't got no.

At least no one is talking about noodles.

Relax Position before Submission Create space on defense, take awy space to attack That the sortof thing you're looking for?

What am I missing?