Davison

Welcome to the forums!

Welcome to KF! A very sincere thank you for your dedication to the protection of our great country.

Nice to meet ya! Welcome to KF.

Welcome to kf!

Hello Mark. Welcome to the forums! Wushu is a pretty amazing style of martial arts.

I am impressed! I am happy to see all of the glock owners in here. The simplicity of a glock is unsurpassed. I carry a model 22 glock 40 cal on duty and off. 15 round capacity mags. I have glock rails on my weapon and have a tactical M3 light attached. Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

My first weapon was a pocket knife and a rambo survival knife. First ma weapon that I learned the bo.

Congrats, dtstiachi! Now its time to work on your blue belt.

LOL!

I agree with that post ^

Wish you the very best ! Can never have too many dojo's in the world!

I wouldn't carry a sword around in Illinois. ecspecially out on the street.Besides the general public freaking out, I think the police would probably have somthing to say.

Mine is the sword. My second would be the weighted chain(manriki)

Ok, I totally agree with longarm25, considering that I am a big guy, not obese by any means but football player big. 260 lbs and 6 foot tall. Now I can understand all of these coments if the "fat guy" has no formal training but what about the fat guy that does? Most would asume that larger guys are weaker at the knees but in my case, I lift weights and run regularly and my knees are very strong. I push about a thousand lbs with my legs and I can run the hundred yard dash in 10 flat. My bench is about 375 lbs and I sqat 515lbs. I'm not saying that being stronger is better but I am saying that you just don't know what a person is capable of until you witness it for yourself. I have a gut on me and it has never ever been a factor in a fight that I have had. As far as bigger people being slower, I wouldn't belive everything you hear. With all ego aside, I am extremely fast with my hands and feet. I am also very flexible. I understand that a groin shot would be effective against a big guy but wouldn't it be effective against anyone?Given that someone doen't know how to defend against it.I think that fat really isn't a factor in being able to with stand more punishment.What I do think is that it comes down to a persons pain threshold to take punishment to the body.Now , I do agree if the fat guy is so extremely obese that it is hard for him to walk, let alone fight, he will easily be defeated, but to catogorize all fat people is a mistake that you probably don't want to make.As far as someone running from a fat person and thinking that they will not catch up, that might be the case with some, but don't think that it will always work. I have spent many days chasing people down on foot, mainly criminals,skinny ones, and I have never lost yet. Just thought I would do my part to defend the "fat" people on this forum, were not all as slow and sloppy as one might think. Its definitlly a advantage for me when some one underestimates my abilitys in a street fight just because i am big.

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Thanks everyone for your replys. I'm just going to have to keep trying to kick the habit . Thanks again.

Ok, here it goes. I have been a smoker for about 13 yrs now, which is half my life considering im 26 yrs old now. Recently, my best buddy's lung calapsed on him. I went to the hospital to see if he was doing alright and I spoke to the doctor about what happened and he said that when he came in, his lung was 50% calapsed and needed immediate surgery. He put a tube in his lung and put him on oxygen. After a week in the hospital, he was doing fine and the doctor said that he was going to remove the tube because he no longer needed it . When the doctor removed it, it calapsed again, this time even worse. The doctor told him that emergency surgery was needed and when the surgery was finished, he said that he has emphasema and that his lungs are as bad as a 80 yr old smoker. They had to cut part of his lung out and when it was all over, gave him about six months to a year to live. He is 28 and we both started smoking around the same time. I have tried to quit many times and I cannot. I have tried everything and nothing seems to work. I am a very determined person and have always had a strong will to do what is right but even after seeing him like that , I still smoke. I even went outside at the hospital and had a smoke. I smoke alot. About two and a half packs a day . I can feel the effects from it and I can tell that it is getting bad. So my question is, has anyone went threw the same thing that I am going through and if so , do you have any solid advise for me? I know that it is easy for people,ecspecially people that have never smoked before to say,"why don't you just quit?", but it isn't that easy, not for me. So any advice is more than welcome.

I don't hunt. I think the only way I could kill anything is if it was attacking me or if I was starving to death.I have hunted before,but I felt teribble afterward. I'll take a spider out of my house and put in the yard before I kill it. I can't help to think, What if that creature is someone you used to know? I think maybe that it could be a friend or family member that has died and at that point, has came to see you and how your are doing. I always say to myself, "remember the grasshopper at your feet".

Hitting the heavy bag always helps. sometimes, right when I am about to lose control, I just immediatly stop what I am doing and just sit back and smile and think about how things could be worse and how much I love being alive and in good health. You don't realize how good life really is until you you start to lose your health.

I love coffee also. I probably drink it too often, but o well.

Black Belt in Jujutsu

If you can study w/ Mike Swain, then I would. He is unbelivable when it comes to judo.I have read a lot on him in the mags and he is a very acredited judoka. I think he was an olimpic coach and has also won medals in the olimpics for his judo talent. I remember reading blk belt mag in 1994 or 1995 and he was coach of the year. judo is a blast!

26 yrs old/Hakko Denshinryu Jujutsu/blk belt/assist instructor Studied several systems of ma for 14 yrs concurently but could only afford to pay for rank in Jujutsu. Kodokan Judo,kobudo,Shorin ryu matsumura kenpo karate,muso jikiden ishinryu iaijutsu,muay tai. It's great because when I train w/ different judoka,or if I go to another school to compete, I can only enter as a white belt. Afterwards, they all ask me if im really a white belt and all I can say is... yes I am.

Congrads!

Thats a fun game but I have not gotton that far yet. Sorry