Warp Spider

Uhh.. the Unreal engine is a game engine used in probrably half the FPS made today. (Epic actually calls the third generation the second, but most developers consider the original engine different from the "tournament" builds. Games already released (Third generation): Unreal Tournament 2003 Unreal Championship America's Army Splinter Cell Unreal II Rainbox Six: Raven Shield Postal 2 Devastation Games still under development: Star Wars: Republic Commando Shadow Ops: Red Mercury Magic: The Gathering Battlegrounds (this will probrably be stupid ) Unreal Tournament 2004 (Does really count, since it's so similar to UT2003) Advent Rising Tribes III: Vengeance Dead Man's Hand Black 9 Men of Valor XIII (listed as under development, but I believe some parts of it have already been released) Lineage II The Lost Loophole Speedball Arena Deus Ex 2 Thief III Dark Sector Duke Nukem Forever ... as you can see, there are a lot of games released using that engine, I'm sure that combined, they have a following far greater than any of the other 3d engines.

Wow. One guy got turned over. Break out the party favors! In case you'd forgotten, the US is fighting a guerilla war, I'd highly doubt that there is any central organization controlling all of the cells and that the attacks are going to stop because you caught his "second in command." You know, I recall a world leader who, in the absence of the person he was actually looking for, would simply kill off their entire family. Way to go Bush, you'd done Adolf proud!

On the contrary, I think combo's are unreliable because you can't predict how an opponent will respond to any given strike. That's just my experience though.

"Dim Mak" points will not kill you, unless you are below 15 or over 50. A healty person will have no trouble restarting their heart if you disrupt it, jogging the brain causes only momentary "punch drunk"-edness, and twisting the spinal cord, well, that hurts quite a bit and is a pain in the butt, people have tried that to me numerous times... but it didn't cause unconciousness or death, by any stretch. Pressure points cause pain, but pain is just nerve stimulation, and can be resisted. Eventually, enough pain would cause unconciousness, but that generally requires a GREAT deal of pain, like being crushed by a tank, or smashed into a wall by a car. Here's a point by point debunking of the list posted above: 1: The "soft spot": This hurts. It also, for some reason, makes me feel very angry and frustrated to get hit here. I've cracked it a couple of times, but that was through impacts with concrete, typically at high speeds, as a result of bicycling accidents, etc. This hurt a lot, but even when split right open did not cause unconciousness. (though I imagine a person in that situation might rethink their desire to fight) 2: This makes you dizzy for a second, but it passes. I find it to have a similar infuriating effect to #1. 3: The temple: Theoretically capable of killing a person, but you're not Mas Oyama. Quite painful but not easy to hit. This area also seems to lack the dizzying effect of other head pressure points. 4: Eyes: Eyeballs are big and are NOT easy to pop out. They are a lot bigger than they look. It can be done though, but you would have to be a lot better than your opponent in order to do it. You could still just wreck them though. Hitting a person's brain through their eyes would take not only a lot of force to break through all the nerves and whatnot, but also very long fingers. Also note that having your forebrain damaged is not likely to kill you, though it could impair your thinking ability until your brain healed. Contrary to popular belief, your brain can usually heal itself if damaged, but some types of damage (like strokes) don't heal very well. 5: Ears: Simply put, not true. Air will escape from your ears on almost all people. Ears are shaped differently on everyone, but usually you will not be able to make a good seal over the ear with your hands. As an interesting side-note, some people don't have ears. (Don't laugh, it's true, I met a guy who had no ears, just holes and little stumps that were probrably some kind of undeveloped ear, but he could still hear.) 6: Behind the earlobes: Simply... you can't be serious. This isn't even painful, but I'd believe that you could damage a persons ear with prolonged pressure. However, prolonged pressure takes time, and it has relatively little benefit. 7: II-A: Breaking the nose: Big deal. II-D: Forcing the nose bones into the brain: This is a myth. It is nearly impossible to do and doesn't result in death even if successful. Your brain can be compressed a fair bit before it will cause any real harm. Similar effect to a migraine headache. 8: "Upper lip": Generates a "tingling" effect in your face. Cool, but not that effective. 9: Breaking the jaw: Unpleasant, but it won't kill anyone. 10: Chin: A decent place to hit, but it's not a pressure point and won't kill anyone unless you are The Hulk. KO is actually achieved by twisting the spinal cord, not by a shock sensor. 11: Corotid/Jugular: Hitting people in the neck is no secret, and no pressure point. Regardless, although this hurts, it won't kill anyone. The notion that you could burst one of these with a punch is ludicrous. The throat is a better target on the neck. 12: The Throat: Not a pressure point, but it still hurts and can cause a person to feel like they are choking. This is actually a very good place to hit because the person believes they are choking, although they are not. Drowning a person in their own blood is just plain fantasy. 13: Tingling effect. Kind of cool. 14: Between the collarbones: Sure thing, Conan. If you have enough power to do this you might as well just rip out the heart and squeeze it in front of their eyes. 15: Breaking bones is always a good thing to inflict on your target. This is no different. 16: The heart: If you think you can kill a healthy person by stopping their heart, your opponent had better be 65 or a heavy smoker. Most people's heart can restart itself after being jarred, unless they are already unconcious. Even then they sometimes can. Collapsing a heart does nothing. The heart collapses parts of itself deliberately as part of it's operation. 17. Mmmm, kidney punching: I don't know how this qualifies as a pressure point, but whatever. Punching the kidneys is always a good target because it's pretty painful. Internal bleeding - not likely, takes a long time, and is easily fixed at the hospital. 18. Dislocating a shoulder: Same as breaking a bone, except you can put it back in place quite easily, even during the fight. 19. Breaking an arm at the elbow: Not a pressure point, but again, breaking bones does work pretty good. 20. Breaking fingers: Again, this isn't a pressure point. It's just breaking bones. 21. Dislodging the kneecap: Not as easy as it sounds. It isn't easy to land a downward strike to a person's kneecap. Even then, it's not the end of the world. 22. Stomping on people's foot: Wow, Mr. Science, I bet noone thought of this before! Again, this is just bone breaking. 23. Broken bone's. Nuff said. 24. Same here. Just bone breaking. 25. Uhh, it's nearly impossible to break the spine by striking it unless you are brittle and don't drink milk. It's quite flexible. Try snapping a rope. 26. Attacking the diapraghm. Knocks the wind out of you. Not fatal by any stretch. 27. Testes: This one hurts, but not THAT bad. Not bad enough to save you from being sticked/shot/whatever. 28. The "tailbone": This hurts and makes a tingling feeling over your entire body. It will not kill a person, however, unless you are, say, a polar bear. 29. Getting hit in the armpits hurts, but since its' surrounded by bones it's basically impossible to hit with a fist. You can jab it with fingers, but still, it won't kill someone or immobilize them as the article says. 30. Back of the upper leg: Hurts. No other serious effects. 31. The liver: Yes. Let's hit the guy ON HIS LIVER. Technically the liver can be damaged easily, except for the fact that it's buried in your body and cushioned by your flesh. A strong hit to the liver could kill you, but so would the suggestion in #14, which would probrably be easier. 32. The spleen: This is different from the liver because although it contains a lot of blood, it is not hard like the liver and does not break easily. If you can break a spleen with a punch, see #14. For obvious reasons, I can't blame you for not trying these before you posted a reference to another article, probrably by people who also haven't tried it. Breaking bones doesn't qualify as pressure points, and trying to break a bone with the intention of a jagged bone end puncturing an organ is kind of silly. By their nature, bones very rarely break in such a manner that promotes them to move around and puncture things. These "pressure points" are mostly based on theories which are not supported by experimental data. There are not "magical" spots that you can kill a person merely by touching. If you could there'd be a lot more people just lying around dead because they tripped and fell funny, or whatever.

Stick-fighting arts would likely be applied to bats as well.

Getting your ears boxed kind of hurts, but I highly doubt it would deafen a person. I don't believe that the disorientation is due to any pressure differential, the air will escape because the hands aren't going to make a perfect seal against your ears. I highly suspect that the disorientation and discomfort is instead due to having just been punched in the head twice simultaneously.

Most people would probrably say Krav Maga is the best for self defense. However, I would say that any style of knife fighting is probrably better than any unarmed art, if the law permits you to carry a knife where you live. Generally speaking a skilled knife user is more effective than even the best unarmed fighters, though admittedly there aren't many schools that teach knife fighting. Practice with some friends using magic markers. Then you can easily tell when you've been hit. You also need to practice both versus other "knives" and versus unarmed persons, and try some disarms, in case someone tries to disarm you.

I'd have to vote the opposite of the general consensus so far. Having a clear mind is important, because fighting is to a large extent, about out-thinking the other person, especially grappling. However, I don't think that being calm is the way to go. Tigers are the most vicious, deadliest predators on Earth. Mimic their style, prowl, then when the moment is right, pounce and dismember. (Granted, tigers can dismember humans simply from the sheer impact of slamming their body into you, but still...)

Easier said than done, I'd say. His kicking leg may be moving very fast. That "spin twice around" kick sounds like a tornado kick, which isn't really meant as a combat move. It does look cool though. Generally I'd say a tornado kick is moving too fast and with too fast to grab. Even if you did it packs so much momentum it would likely escape or knock you over as you clung. It generally has the momentum of your entire body behind it to accomplish the 540 degree rotation. Having said that, it's easy to say "I'd just do this," or "I'd just do that," as you may or may not be aware, this guy obviously doesn't stand still and let you do whatever you like. Trying to plan more than one move in advance is folly, because it's impossible for you to predict what they will do in response to a technique.

It's not the instructor's fault, the student would have to be stupid to believe that he could fight a lion. After all, they can only dismember you just by pouncing into you, how dangerous could they be?

Grab him by the waist and lift him up, then do a backbreaker, WWE style! Fahahaha!

Guns are great! But shooting a person for walking towards you is just plain irresponsible, even if that person is Satan themself. Unless you profess to by psychic, there's no way to know what that person was planning. They could just be an agressive salesperson.

Most unarmed gun defenses (and by most I mean basically all) rely on the person being at extremely close range and basically sticking the gun in your face. Even then you take a chance trying a disarm. If the opponent uses both hands to hold the handgun or simply keeps a few feet of distance there isn't much you can do to fight back. I'd say just go along with whatever the guys says, maybe stall a bit if you can, and hope he gives you an opening, like taking the gun off of you for a moment.

Arr, matey. You left out the 4th Generation build of the Unreal engine. It's gonna be grand. Half-Life 2 looks good, about on par with the 3rd Gen Unreal engine. Halo 2 is pretty good looking. Doom 3 is.. blech. Sub-par compared to the above three.

Well, I can't say for sure, I can give good speculative answers though. 1) The orient did not have very sophisticated mettalurgy when compared to Europe back in "tha day." 2) Floppy weapons can deliver more force on impact because there is potential energy stored in it when it flexes. If you bend a pen and release it close to something you can observe that it strikes that object with a measurable amount of force even though you didn't swing it. This can combine with the force of the actual swing to make a stronger impact. The downside being that energy is consumed flexing the weapon, making it slower to swing.

If throws are allowed (I don't know if your dojo allows them or not) you could go inside the kick and then do a takedown part way, then just let go of the person so you don't go to the ground with them. Alternatively you could just charge all out like a rhinocerous. They'll get a point when they kick you but then you can bowl them over and apply a flurry of punches like a 2 year old throwing a tantrum. Points are points!

That sounds like such a great move! A) What's the advantage to a low speed kick over a high speed one? B) What's the advantage of holding it there?

Well, actually, a bat isn't useless just because you're close up. You could still be butted with the bottom end of it, and that would likely still be very unpleasant. Kind of like a gun without bullets. It's still not harmless, getting pistol whipped would be quite unpleasant.

Beat the tar!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, though, only if they were ugly.

I don't see self-offense, glory, or even just an aura of fear on that list.

Yo, word, dawg! Heh. At any rate, I find they generally try to act friendly until they have a chance to surround you before turning ugly.

Whether or not they use wires in the movies does not indicate their skill or lack thereof. Obviously a lot of the "high flying" stuff is done with wires but the guys still pretty fast. Everyone probrably has a different idea of what's important in a martial artist, thus you guys will never agree on who is the best because you value different things. It's like asking what utensil is best. The knife is good at cutting things but the spoon clearly excels when soup enters the picture.

No kiddin? That's crazyness. Knives are legal, which I'd think is a bit more dangerous than brass knuckles, but I guess I don't make the laws.

Get a Lotus! They are quite fast, efficient, and very agile. Failing that I'd suggest a fast one, like a nice Porche or Ferrari.

... I don't see how those are tricks. What's so hard about jumping from building to building or jumping off of buildings?