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mint is good? geez, i'm with tommarker; i can never go to england, i'd never figure out what in gods name you people were talking about...

actually, i'd say it depends entirely on the event. i'm thinking bruce lee wouldn't do to well in a forms competition, y'know?

heh. for a long time people were prank calling me. a long story about a rumour that got out of hand. i essentially just ignored it for awhile, but one time my dad picked up the phone. and for those of you who don't know my dad (uh... which i suppose is all of you...), he's a very scary man. he totally blew up at them, yelling about how if he ever found out who they were, yada yada. it was very funny; i was in the next room. they never called again. even the people who were driving around out side my house dissapeared. my dad rocks

well, i've seen it. my sister went to thailand and bought it for me cuz she knows i'm a sucker for kung fu movies, and the guy in the movie is supposed to be one of the best. however, i really don't speak a word of thai. so... yeah, that was trouble. the fighting was cool, though

well, there's a stance specific to sword that guards your major arteries. that and horse riding stance. and cutting while advancing. those are the biggies.

"pants" equate to something bad!?! quite frankly i've always enjoyed my pants... are you guys shorts people over there?

"I love my ride...she has been good to me. A lot of people hate civics because of the classic stereotype of guys the drive civics but you know what? I'm riding! I dont use the bus, or a bicycle...." yeah, saving the earth's natural resources is for losers!

simple downward cuts. i was doing those a long * time before i ever got to do anything different. do them in all sorts of stances, with proper technique. sword is one of those things that really require precision, so if you don't do it right, you'd might as well not be doing it at all.

i would say that hwarang do's biggest strength is also it's weakness: there's so much material that you kind of end up a "jack of all trades, master of none" sort of deal. then you tend to specialize in something, be it weapons, striking, grappling, whatever.

well, from what i read, tom cruise wanted M:I 2 to be his "big action movie" (i may be forgetting one, but did you ever notice that that movie is the first time he ever fires a gun?), and that's why he insisted on doing most of the stunts for it. just what i read, though, and i have kind of a bias for tom cruise, cuz i like him

actually, i read somewhere or other that although tom cruise didn't do all of his own stunts for M:I2, he insisted that he do as many as he could. that mountain scene in the beginning was all him.

the prince, WW? i dunno, machiavelli's kinda cynical and angry, that book kind of weirded me out. definitely good if you're in the U.S. and you're gonna' take the AP Euro History test, though, cuz it WILL be on it. still, i dunno... though i've read the book of 5 rings, i've been told i purchased a lesser translation of it.

next week, both of my coworkers are on vacation. this means i have to cover everyones shifts. i'm incredibly annoyed.

perhaps, but that really dosen't help my point, so i think i'll neglect that

that was generation x (not that it matters). gah, that was awful.

yeah, i saw a preview for a live action FF. it looks terrible, i've been looking for it every where. captain america is on the scifi channel every now and then.

some good points yourself, but i don't know that accuracy ever comes in last. like DM mentioned in another thread somewhere, simple body positioning and alignment can make the difference between an effective and an ineffective punch. i heartily believe that no matter where you are in relation to your opponent, accuracy will probably be at the top.

well, i read the complaining thread, and although i can totally see the use for it, i had a pretty good day today. so here's the "i had a good day" thread, where you can share a stroke of luck, things/people/events you're greatful for, whatever. *my sister came home from thailand safe and sound yesterday(and brought me all sorts of neat stuff ) *I got off of work today; something i sorely needed. had i not i probably would have joined in the rant thread *I got to hang out with my friends for a good while today, and my parents didn't even yell at me when i strolled on in an hour after curfew. hope aefi bird an drunken monkey have a better day tommorow

yeah, it's kind of futile. i'm not even gonna' begin to get into the b movies.

well, to tell you the truth, although i've worked on it and continued to work on it, ground fighting is the weakest aspect of my training. but from what i've learned about joint locks, getting joints in 90 degree angles seems to be the key, which requires accuracy. also, just simple limb placement is important. it dosen't require absolute precision, but it seems to play a factor. though the more powerful fighter will win when equal technique is involved, the one with the best technique will win when there are two equally powerful fighters. then again, maybe my focus on these is why my ground fighting sucks so much

well, as long as your gonna' whip out weight classes... the UFC (i can't believe i'm actually gonna' throw out a UFC reference...) has no weight classes. i happened to watch my first UFC tape the other night, and it happened to be tape VIII, the "david and goliath" themed competition. if i recall correctly, the "david"s almost always took the "goliath"s; the first one going down in somewhere around 8 seconds, taking two shots to the chin, where nerves that run from your brain run through and will knock you unconcious if struck there. therefore, i'd pick accuracy. the gracies aren't large people, but from what i hear they seem to be unbeatable. thoughts

ach; good point.

yeah, it looks terrible. i can't wait

hey, batman rocks, lay off! at any rate, dare devils senses are enhanced, but spideys got an extra one. i think he's got the one up.

actually, this is a wee bit off topic, but at 32 he's not the most affluent. it's teenagers who spend most of the money in the world; thus, major companies target younger crowds. if i want something, i can just get $10 from daddy or a credit card from mommy. also, as long as i'm off topic, i'll point out britney spears can't be president, she'd have to be 35 still, well said. and as long as i've jumped into this discussion, i'll point out that i got my first black belt at 12, and man, i worked hard for it. like you, we're talking 5 hour a day, 6 days a week (it was over the summer ). i figured i was mentally ready for it. maybe i was. and i thought i was mature enough for it. i doubt that now, i still don't think i'm mature enough for it and i thought i was physically ready for it, and i really wasn't. not in the slightest. though you probably wouldn't believe it to see me now, i was a really small kid. i'd never lost any fights i ever got into, but that's because, like mentioned before by someone, it was against other 12 year olds. y'know, scuffles at recess. if i was confronted on the street, i can tell you exactly what would have happened: i would have thrown a reverse chop kick (y'all might call 'em round house kicks) at his/her head, and s/he probably would have barely notice. then s/he'd push me down, beat the life outta' me, do whatever s/he set out to do, and leave. it wasn't until 15 i could actually hold my own, and even then, at 17, i got beaten by a group of guys. after 10 years of training, i got beaten by 4 moronic foot ball players. such is life. at any rate, thank god i didn't run into any trouble before then. someone might not have been as nice as the foot ball players were.