Warp Spider

Maybe meditation would help you be more aware of the sounds that you were making as your crept around, but really, most people won't be woken easily by quiet sounds when they are asleep.

Trust me, once your fists are conditioned you won't have to worry about breaking them on someone's face. Plus, if you break your fist on someone's face.. you can pretty much guarantee the fight's already over. Kind of like smashing your bo to splinters over someone. If it happens, you won't need a weapon anymore anyway.

I'd give the opposite advice that most people here give. If you don't try, you will always wonder what would have happened if you did. If things don't work out, you don't have to worry about it making things complicated at the dojo - things are only more complicated in your own mind.

Arr, I've been invaded! This entire universe belongs to me! Foolish mortal, we will crush your armies with.. something. I haven't figured out that part yet. But it's going to take your shuttles along time to get there and I'm pretty sure I'll have figured something out by then!

Well, a lightning strike may have caused the surge, I don't know what the actual cause of it was. You could also be correct about the power plants.. maybe there was more safety breakers to reset on the US side, so they increased the output on the Candian plants as a stopgap measure, thus causing a burnout there as well. It could be both I suppose.

Umm.. retain your balance? There's some counters to being pushed, but.. why bother? It's not like getting pushed even causes you any real harm.

It's not compressed gas fuel. Inert gas is stored under pressure to propel a liquid fuel. It is a similar principal to a compressed-air paint sprayer or a pumper jug, but much more powerful. Also I never said that they don't hit or that they are simultaneous, but they are very quick and generally don't have much power.

Testing steroids on your cat would be pointless, as would mixing them. Cats have an interestingly similar physiology, but not similar enough to make a reliable assertion about what steroids would work. The straight ones work best... or so I'm told.. honest.

Umm, actually as I stated above the blackout was caused by a surge in a plant in the great lakes region on the US side. (the specific one was specified, but I don't recall the name) That surge tripped hundreds of safety interlocks which then had to be manually reset, which, logically, takes a fair bit of tme. There was never any real damage to any of the electrical hardware.

Meh, destroying the earth makes sense to me. There's always something else you can conquer. You can never run out of stuff to conquer! Mahahaha!

I haven't bashed apart enough bos to say for sure about the structural integrity, but in theory it should be the same when screwed together as if it were made like that. In practice it may be slightly weaker but I still doubt it will snap off. As for materials.. I'd probrably go for graphite before hard wood, or even better weighted carbon fibre if you can find one.

That would depend on what you plan to use it for. I'd say Muay Thai is much better for unarmed fighting, but if you are going to involve weapons, (disarms and such) Krav Maga has some focus on that while I don't think Muay Thai barely touches weapons.

I'd agree, the UFC gives the impression that it's so real that whatever style comes out on top is obviously the best art ever, which I don't think is very accurate. The irony is that although they claim to have the best fighters in the world, the best (or even close in most cases) won't fight in those competitions because they pay isn't all that good. Where is Paul Wight in the UFC? You know, the 7'2" 500 pound guy who can lift a 300 pound guy by the neck and throw him WITH ONE HAND? How well would BJJ work against a guy like that? Ultimate indeed.

Well, if I were immortal I wouldn't kill everyone, I'd much rather enslave them so that they could build piles of weapons and missiles. That would make it easier to take over the next civilization. Once you'd taken over the entire universe I guess you could start making civilizations and waiting until they are big enough, then wiping them out. Or, since you've got time, you could make a bunch of civilizations and then watching them fight. Mmmm, cosmic cock-fighting.

I guess, but how are you supposed to deliver the punch with a leg in the air? No matter how balanced it will still be more difficult.

You could try acting like a drill seargent. The harsh language drives away the less dedicated, and drives the dedicated people to train harder. (IE so they can make you eat it)

It may be just that you aren't rolling fast enough.. I think if you go faster it makes you more stable, kind of like a motorcycle, you should stay upright if you go fast enoough. On the other hand, it's quite possible that you are going fast enough and there's something else the matter, it's certainately hard to say over the internet.

Yeah, they thwarted his plans, but what with being eternal and transcending time, he kept coming back for more.

... talk about your delayed gratification.

I'd be Apocalypse! Dahahahaah, there's no stopping him!

Well, that may be. Any kind of feint or distraction would suffice, though I would think one with your hands or a jacket or something would be better than a kick.. a kick would definately be more distracting, but it would put you kind of out of position to deliver the KO punch, I would think.

Well, basically you just curl yourself up into a more or less fetal position and give yourself a boost. Technically speaking only the part that's touching the groun needs to be curved so you can go for the cooler looking leaping rolls and stuff once you get more practice. If you put your hands on the ground when you do it you can do it easier, though with practice you won't need your arms to do it forward. Because you can't curl your head to meet the back of your neck like you would ideally, generally you will have to use your hands to roll backwards anyways. I'm not sure what you mean by a side roll, unless you mean like rolling forwards and falling over sideways part-way through, in which case you probrably just aren't going fast enough. Unless of course by rolling you mean like laying flat like a hot dog and rolling away that way..

Though it wasn't explicity stated, courses like that aren't particularly rare and are intended for people who are already practiced in their art. It is a course to teach you how to teach others, because just knowing the techniques doesn't mean you can effectively teach them to someone else, let alone a large group of people more or less simultaneously.

That's a good point. Getting an ear bitten off would probrably be quite disconcerting.

No offense, but a whip causes pain because the rapid change in direction from the whipping motion creates a "sonic boom" which causes great discomfort. The capacity of a whip to actually destroy things is extremely limited. I believe they make bo's flexible so as to avoid the "rattling your jaw" that occurs when something hard is struck by something else hard.