Iron Arahat

It works well in bar fights especially when there are Clamato based drinks being served! Seriously I have a friend who teaches it in Calgary. While I haven't seen a great deal of his stuff it is combat orientated.

The game isn't for kids that's for sure. I mean you can beat someone to death with a baseball bat, and continue to hit the lifeless body on the ground. With a first adventure with the title "Smack the ***** Up" what do you expect. Says alot about what society has become.

Yeah what a shame that they might outlaw an assault rifle for the public. I guess shopping at 7 eleven will never be the same.

America may have founded it's independence from England during the revolution, but it is true that firearms have cause problems throughout American history, starting with the "wild west" and the vigilante attitude. This is very well documented with prospectors travelling north into Canada and being turned away by the RCMP. Not to mention the on a global scale the problems guns have caused the US of late in Afganistan. Gee who gave Bin Ladin weapons to begin with? Hmmm...maybe the US to fight against the Russians. Made your own monster there. Ali G is a comedian who is just making fun at gun issues. As for packing your own, I guess they could not sell you lead or even make casings, make the powder a controlled substance, make it difficult to find wadding. Sure bullets are easy to "pack", but not make.

Actually the best way to become a ninja, you must take the following steps: 1) Learn Oragami (this is very important during later steps). 2) Learn to Breakdance (this is also important later) 3) Go to the a quiet bar. Ensure that it has a juke box, and music Ninja's typically like. 4) Order a Motts Clamato ****tail. 5) When the ninja's appear, fold the coasters into throwing stars with your expertise in oragami, and use them from across the room to select "Kung Fu Fighting" song on the juke box. 6) Breakdance with he ninjas. After all of this they will accept you into their clan, and teach you the deadly art.

David Carradine...hahahahahahahahaha..only if the fight was in slow mo.

Again there is no such thing as chating. When you get in close, I'm also not oppossed to spitting in the persons face. A good distraction to get in that final shot!

Honestly I think musical kata is probably the worst thing in the world, as most the time the moves are flash. All that time spent training to do something that is realy impractical. I agree with the dance school, or do gymnastics. I find musical kata good for a laugh. But at the same time it saddens me that martial arts have been comercialized this way. Another funny one I saw was the guy who dressed up like a farmer and pretended he was fixing his garden with a bo staff.

I would go back to learning Shaolin, but that all depends on who was teaching. There are alot of Shaolin schools out there that are far from it...ie. Simon's Karate (AKA Temple Kung Fu). Anyway Capoeria...cool stuff, but in a street fight, I would say no. "I'm looking for an art that I can take up for several years, and in any fighting scenario, come out triumphant, whether an opponant is using knives, guns, chains, whatever. " Your expectations are too high here, nothing will make you bulletproof. Stay away from any school that does "sport" karate, "spot" tkd. "sport" jujitsu.

Just curious some of the musical kata's people have seen, and what was the funniest routine> For me it has to be the girl that did a pattern wearing an Elvis Jumpsuit to viva Las Vegas. She even did the Elvis pelvis shake and hand stuff. So funny I almost cried. Second has to be the guy I saw dressed up as one of the characters from Mortal Combat, and of course that droning Mortal Combat music. The Elvis jumpsuit must of cost alot of coin, I not sure if she was a female Elvis impersonator, or had the costume made for the event.

No such thing as cheating in my books if your refering to a fight on the street. But then again people have different perspectives on this. For example, I was out numbered once. The kids were 16-18 years of age. The incident turned violent when one of the kids yelled "he can't take us all at once" and threw a kick at me. He hit my arm with his kick, and I squared up launching a kick straight up between his legs (He was off-balance after his kick, too much musical kata you know). Needless to say the kick lifted him off the ground, stopped him, and made him cry. After that his friends were pretty cooperative. Anyways the kids dad was a little upset, and wanted to kick me in the "boys", so I knew how his son felt. He told me that I was an "bad word" for fighting dirty. At which point I said "that's nice" and said if his son had not kicked me and tried to get the others to jump in I wouldn't have resorted to such aggressive means. I have pulled ears, poked eyes, bitten, grabbed and twisted skin, hit people in the nuts, pulled hair, pinched, tickled, and scratched. No such thing as cheating, just survival.

Koreantiger I compare drinking and smoking, because they are both legalized pastimes, and both have negative health affects. Also both are not necesssarily tolerated by others. Just to look at it from a different viewpoint that's all. Role model or not, he's not breaking the law, and he's not hurting anyone but himself (unless he's smoking in class).

There is a traditional ritual behind the care of your sword. I have a friend that is very much into that and trains Akido and Kendo. According to him it's something to be learned from your Sensei.

Your Master smokes, it's his life. It's not like he's smoking while he teaches (I hope). I'm sure people here drink, and that can be seen as a negative as well. Do you fault fellow students or masters for having a beer? Not really a big difference.

Jeremey "Unconquerable" Dirom You laugh in the face of adversity, knowing you will walk away without a scratch on you. Ninjas fear you and assassins can't be paid enough to confront you. Vital Gear Includes a tight shirt to show off your muscles, wrap around sunglasses and a cigar. That's scary...just replace the wrap around glasses with a pair of oakleys and thats the 90's me

My guess is they will have a modern WMAC Masters program. Idiots running around in flashy getup fighting "ninjas". I'm sure it will be full of superstars like...nobody anyone knows.

Username: Withers M.A.A. - (6.42 Messages per day) Username: Iron Arahat - (2.04 Messages per day) I thought computer programmers were good at math. You know when you press the #6 on the photocopier more comes out than when you press #2, and it takes more time. I'm not sure why you so hostile towards me Withers, shouldn't "Avoidance should be your main objective when training in the Martial Arts." Nahh...just boast you have a fast car, guns, berate a fellow employee for trying to change his life. Looking really intelligent in the process I might ad.

Sarcasim is good you may have a sense of humour after all. "DUH" - very profound Withers. I guess it would be pretty funny to have an ex-con working in a gun factory, have a guy perform a musical kata to scare him off. I guess he would of just shot you in the parking lot. I'm just trying to get up to 6.42 posts per day like you Withers, so I'm not as cut off from the world. I have been watching out for the bus when I cross the street these days. But at 6.42 posts per day you should be careful, go out at night (with a gun naturally) so the sun doesn't turn you to dust.

Just as a side as well, what kind of responsible employer, especially one who manufactures firearms, hire someone who did ten years of hard time in a "high security prison"?

Okay bud you got me I live in a bubble (please note tone of sarcasim). By the way here are the facts (available through user profiles on the board): Username: Withers M.A.A. - (6.42 Messages per day) Username: Iron Arahat - (2.04 Messages per day) So if I post 2 messages a day, and you post 6, and based on your statement you are out of the real world three times more than myself. Compounded by the fact that you like guns and feel that they are necessary to defend yourself, I think you are out of touch with reality. Withers you need a sense of humour. Maybe some community college courses. Sorry you are threatened by intellect. _________________________ Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. Confucius

Eric Bischoff and Mark Burnett, the famed producer of Survivor, are teaming up to debut a reality based television show that will involve competition to determine the "toughest man in the world". Burnett, and Bischoff's company Battle Arts, will be working together to create the martial arts reality show that will incorporate several fighting disciplines into a competition that will see competitors eliminated on a weekly basis in a format familiar to fans of Survivor. Battle Arts represents some of the top martial arts experts in the world, and the show is expected to feature a mixture of kung fu, judo, karate, boxing, etc. The show will feature legitimate martial arts combatants in unscripted situations. Burnett and manager Conrad Riggs will join Bischoff and his Battle Arts associates Peter Levin and Jeremy Lappen as executive producers of the program. No network is set, and the show will be shopped to various broadcast and cable networks in the next few weeks. The news of the launch of the program will be featured in Friday's Variety and in other entertainment publications.

Half of the class dressed up as Hippos and the other Half were Alligators and we preformed to swan lake. We actually never use music at our demos. It's amazing to see a big crowd be totally silenced during a performance, and then erupt after its done.

We did a demo for the opening of the Fantasia Film festival a few years back. The festival plays Hong Kong cinema movies, and always has a lot of fans. The opening day they showed Enter the Dragon, and Jet Li's Fist of Legend. As you can imagine there was alot of people.

I'm sure an elastic band gun that shoots paper clips would be even better. It's only fun until someone loses an eye. ______________________ I'm not smiling because your joke was funny... I'm smiling because I know you'll be dead someday. Aaron Cornell

Good to see hobbitbob that there are schools out there like that. Run away from the padded arm danglers.