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Good points jeffrogers.

Tokeabowl it's not designed for streetfighting. It's designed for one on one fighting. The street is too unpredictable to take someone to the ground right away. You have to make sure there isn't someone waiting to pounce you once you are on the ground with one. There's a lot of things about BJJ that don't make it good for the street. That's why there's a thing called MMA.

Yeah, it's amazing to me how many MA's don't really teach this stuff. This stuff is awesome knowledge.

Hopefully by the second hit you've taken his balance and taken him down for the finish.

All good multiple attacker arts?

I consider anyone attacking me for no reason a life and death situation. If a wild animal were to attack me then I'd get a huge adrenaline dump. Like I said I can stay pretty calm in hairy situations. Am I scared sure, that's normal. Do I freeze? No.

If you are in a grappling art you'd see locks happen because of the way you move. If you are used to sparring by jumping around and tagging eachother it's going to be impossible unless you are really in fight. Locks aren't that hard, some are harder than others though.

What are you talking about Samurai had duel. Does Musashi Miyamoto ring a bell. I don't think Musashi would have had any trouble against someone with a foil.

A wrestler who's a southpaw?

So some are more complete than others. That's all I was saying. That's not a matter of taste, it's a matter of fact. One shoe doesn't make a pair. It's not complete. Hmm.

Bdaze I'm surprise that you would say a katana is a brute weapon. Katana is extremely fast and light. You can stab with it just like a rapier. My friend has a rapier and I have a katana and the weight isn't that much different. Plus my other buddy has a really nice katana it is very light, scary light.

My Jo and Bo are curve slightly. Does that mean I leave in a humid area. I'm starting to think they always bent.

Bdaze a fellow Budo Taijutsuer I see with Kempo and Kenjutsu. Very nice!

Sure walking or talking out of a fight is smarter. But if someone attacks me and I have no choice but to do him great bodily harm so that he doesn't do mean things to me, then so be it. I personally think weapons amplify your mistakes so it's a great way to see your progress. Also it seems like you are not training with weapons against anyone. It sounds like you are doing Kata with weapons which is only a part of weapons training. The main thing weapons training has taught me is that weapons are all around us and not hard to find. Anything can be used as a weapon.

Left, right and then repeat.

Move before you hit, don't hit before you move. Your movement towards him will cause him to move and you can track it for a strike.

Set him up with your sister.

I like Icetuete's list very much.

Well the best defense against a southpaw is close the distance, clinch and throw. Oh yeah, that's the same for anyone.

It depends on what your goal is. You're right not all arts combine those aspects of fighting, but the one's that do are in fact more complete than the one's that don't, yes? The training methods are the problem, not the MA with the exception of a few of course.

No they would not because the goal is not the same. If I am training warriors to fight in battle I am not going to train them like Mixed Martial Artists. There are many things taught that translate better when you have a weapon in your hands. There are many techniques that would be useless to a MMA competitor, but useful to someone in a life and death situation. I don't think that MMA's is about training for a real situation at all, it is for the ring. Where is the study of weapons and tactics? If I am going to train individuals to fight in the ring than yes. I think it's a completely different mind set and I don't think you are hearing what I am saying. Most MMA's only teach Muay Thai with BJJ and Judo, which are all sport MA's. It makes sense to mix sport arts that cover standing, grappling, groundfighting, for MMA tournaments, it's smart. Plus those MA's already were well trained and fighting already so it's a no brainer. What I am saying is somewhere along the way TMA's stopped training hard or training the right way. It doesn't necessarily mean the techniques aren't useful to teach someone how to fight. It really means that the training methods are no good. So if someone was to take an MA like Budo Taijutsu or San Soo or Arnis and incorporate strength training and rigorous regiments. I don't think there would be a real clear line drawn there. It would and has always depends on the fighter and his tactics. Any good MA whether it is Traditional or Modern knows that you must train for every situation. Which means you better have good stand-up skills as well as groundfighting/grappling skills. I am a big advocate of weapons training not excluding firearms of course if you really want prepare for reality. If you are a ring fighter and I applaud you, I love to watch a good fight. But you must train for your purpose and each purpose is different. All I have to say is the world is a big place with lots of surprises and it is always adapting and changing. I think TMA's are learning a lot from MMA's and if things keep moving in this direction fighters that have trained hard in whatever style will emerge and surprise everyone. You don't have to agree with me if you don't want to, that's O.K. I have my reasons for thinking the way I do and I've put it to the test. I'm not a competitive fighter, I missed the boat there and I have my passion of Art that I have dedicated most of my life to. Martial Arts for me is fascinating and unpredictable.

Older than you, but that's not a problem here.

Fathers from the south.

Well also you are counter and attacking, while applying a lock. They shouldn't know the lock is coming, that's what makes it work. If you grab at there arm or hand and bring attention to it of course anyone will pull away. You kind of sneak it on in the moment and you have to have taken control of their balance first or else everything you do will be useless.

Cheers!