JusticeZero

There is a gentleman downstairs who appears to be quite Japanese, and has an accent that sounds Japanese to my albeit not well experienced ears. He asked if he could use our parking space; we agreed as we do not use it. Today he gave us a gift of salmon, very good salmon by the looks of it, but unfortunately salmon which my wife and daughter are are unable to eat due to an iodine sensitivity. I thanked him in a profuse albeit baffled manner, and now have salmon in my freezer. (The daughter, mind, made a snarky comment from the back.) What should I do?

Basic form on two movements. Minor improvement on one of them, after I hammered home the need of shifting weight instead of using muscle. Practiced on my own after everyone left. Found, to a combination of my relief and annoyance, that my halfmoon kick, which I have been trying for a long time to be able to watch the target throughout and failing, is a kick that I do in fact sight with my eyes properly and look straight at the target with - but I can only see if my shirt is off, because even relatively tight shirts fall down in front of the sight line. Last week I mostly had people practicing chaining defenses into attacks. This was mostly sequence drilling with short combinations I came up with while I was changing clothes. I did also practice getting people to sling their leg through low crescent kicks by swinging their arms, since they're using entirely too much leg in their kicks. I tried not to work on much in the way of *high* kicking - so no paired exercizes, as much as those might have made sense - as my 10 y/o girl student was having female issues that day (and complaining vocally about them). Her level of preparedness for that was unclear, since she's 10. Not completely sure if that was a perfect call, never having had to personally deal with such and thus being less than clear on what restrictions are added by the need not to overstrain the required items of whatever type. (I wasn't about to ask, and it was omitted from the litany of complaints). I did fulfil my promise to the main tenant of the space I use, and tell people not to dump them down the toilet, since he'd recently had to eat $1,700 in plumbing and repairs because of a toilet clog caused by tampons and pads and told me that I needed to tell people not to do that. Ah well, I don't pay all that much rent, so I am happy to jump at his reasonable demands. I got glared at, but as a rule everything else i'd said on any subject whatsoever had gotten me glared at, so no idea what to say about that.

Haven't updated this in awhile.. jogo ('sparring') - lots of discussion on not attacking defended targets blindly. Attack to force a response, or to hit an opened target, don't just fling attacks because you can. Half the class was basically a series of playing each other. The other half was techniques from the floor. Then we went outside and practiced in the snow briefly. Always make sure to use your techniques in the worst your local environment can throw at you. This wasn't the worst, but it wasn't a mat either.

Indeed. The guy with the blade would have to still have his drawn first. It is all situational In the situation that the '21 foot rule' was tested in, the knife wielder did NOT have the knife drawn at the moment of attack. The knife was drawn, and not from a good sheath, as they closed range. The situation was also however a demonstration of attack vs. response, and the main lesson, I feel, was to notify gun fans that a ranged weapon is not to be considered a panacea in situations involving moderate range. I would furthermore consider a gun not to be considered a panacea under any circumstances; I am told (I cannot verify this personally) that during a significant portion of the year, 10mm handguns are ineffective in my state; certain common types of typical winter clothing is sufficient to stop the bullets. Handguns are hardly a case of 'you fall over now' at best in any case; neither is a blade.

I focus on techniques that move the opponent and create space. The theory being that if the practitioner is taken to court and told "The subject was knocked down and hit his head on the concrete and ___", that they can respond "I just wanted to run away; I used that technique so that I could get space to flee, and did not intend anything of the sort to happen to the attacker" and completely derail the entire 'intent' rail.

You can still do push-ups, you just have to adjust them. First you're going to have to go to your knees - 'but that makes them easier!' you say. Well, yes it does. So you have to compensate that in other places; elevating the knees shifts your weight back toward your upper body, altering the positioning of your hands can increase the difficulty, doing single arm pushups doubles it, and you allso have range to work with the movement itself; if you lower all the way down, stop, relax, then push up slowly trying to make the pushup take extra time, that will take more strength than the little twitches I see many people doing.

Seems that strength and mass matter more in ground-wrestling than in standup, though it does matter everywhere. Tactical considerations also matter, and those are very hard to show 'in the ring'. You can get very little leverage against an opponent's mind in a judged and ruled duel.

There's a lot of ways of using strength more efficiently - far more efficiently - as well as shifting the power demands from 'how much can my arm muscles move' to 'how much can my abs and leg muscles move', 'how much recoil can my skeleton, braced, resist' and 'How much does almost my entire body weigh?' If you are practicing effectively, then you are working how to do at least some aspects of those, and should be on a much larger scale than the person who only lifts weights. Both together of course are more optimal.

I dunno, i'm going to take the unpopular and unpleasant side here. I was always taught, and seen my education validated, that the moment one's SO physically strikes the other that that relationship has been terminated; continuing the relationship is justification for anyone even peripheral to the relationship to contact law enforcement to intervene. Violence against the person you are romantically involved with is unacceptable full stop. The pronouns involved do not, should not matter, and I do not allow people special pleading to respond differently because of incidentals like that any more than I would allow different stances on domestic violence based on the skin color of those involved. That could be because i've seen relatives dragged through horrifically abusive situations; the most tiny and unimposing of people can wreak damage and destruction on an epic scale against anyone unwilling to accept the threat and in accepting, flee from the relationship. I wouldn't wish it on a mass murderer.

I may not have "won", but I have taken the space that they used to hold. Since an attacker probably isn't going to corner themself before attacking, this likely means that I have access to directions to flee in that I might not have had before. Any tactical advantage that might have been there is now mine. In any case, I don't have to just move. I often hook the attack vector on my way, so that I can use it for part of a throw.

Well, it's not THAT random. People don't randomly flip out and attack whoever is nearby. There are people who are inclined to such behaviors - look out for selfishness, a sense of entitlement, and other such personality traits that are building blocks of criminal behavior, and then avoid being in their sights. Attacks don't happen in crowds with lots of people to break it up, they happen in the fringes where it can actually be gotten away with - you can learn to be watchful when you are passing through isolated spaces, and often you don't need to go there right at that moment. If you were going to ambush someone, then get away clean, where would you be? How would you move? Now don't go obliviously bopping along next to people standing like that. People don't get attacked by even odds attackers; as a rule if someone is going to attack you, they first must size you up and decide if you are going to fight back in a way that matters. In computer game/MMO terms, attackers are generally "grey-gankers", in other words. They don't want to get hurt, they want to dish out the hurt. If you're aware and confident and quick to defend your identity, you might trip their alarm bells that you aren't going to be pushed around without a fight that they just don't want to be bothered with.

I know about striking to nerve clusters, and those are useful.. pain compliance I trust less. Talk of gentle touch KO's, no-touch KO's, and things that look like they belong in a chinese action movie i'm more wary of. And a number of the "pressure point experts" tend to flash those around, which has poisoned the well.

Hey, if they disengage because I slipped their attack, then i've won, it seems.. this is a bad thing why?

Most of the ego driven one on one fights should be a non-issue, as you should not need to fight in those. Let them have their ego and walk off. Things where a group decides to maul someone for groupthink are more dangerous. Predatory attacks are an isue too, but you should be able to defuse most of those by not doing stupid things and being a target. If it starts with discussion and talking that's an interview, and you should be able to no-sale the fight by showing that you have integrity and are neither trying to provoke them more nor willing to let them steamroller you.

You would need to put in a lot of flash. Capoeiristas looking to busk in the streets use a modified playstyle that focuses on acrobacia and musical crispness; everything works differently since the game becomes much more cooperative and based on flipping and handstanding and flowery calls rather than more pragmatic concerns that most of the audience wouldn't appreciate.

To me, it just looks like a non-falsifiability dodge.. the incapacitations generally appear to me to function much like the KO's from faith healers, all of which that I am familiar with have all the characteristics of a hypnosis stage act. Any theory has to have a major clause in it that reads "If we try to do X, and we find that Y happens/doesn't happen, then it is strong evidence that we are wrong and need to go back to the drawing board." Trotting out 'medical conditions' that some people (generally not students) just ignore a technique is actually quite damning in that regard, rather than being added evidence; that comes off to most people like using the fact that a window shows a blue sky as evidence that the sky is yellow would. In short, statements like that, to most people who go on to conclude and pass on a judgement of hokiness, mark the places where the rubber leaves the road.

What I do has strong catholic/candomble ties, but that doesn't make it a religious observation.

Frustration with skill of that sort often preceeds a sudden breakthrough in skill. The loss of interest though I can't speak to. The brown belt and black belt people were all 5th kyu and lower once. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly; eventually your idea of doing poorly gets to be quite high. Never gets less annoying though. The better you get to be at anything, the more you realize that you don't know.

The flak is probably because a lot of the demonstrations of those skills appear to have adopted a lot of aspects that share the flaws and properties of hypnosis and suggestion, rather than physiological skill. There might be something to it, but a lot of the things I hear trip my hokey-meter; lots of things that are described in ways which sound non-falsifiable that annoy my scientific background to say the least. I don't know how much is the real deal and how much is the iffy stuff.

I generally rule of thumb "If you can run away without abandoning people to danger, then you are no longer defending - you are attacking."

Outside; this is to a large part because we value targets along the outside more as a rule. Much of the focus is on the floating rib, shoulder, head, or anywhere that we can get underneath a leg; those targets are generally more accessible on the outside of an attacking limb. Mind, a lot of counters slip and come directly up under the attacking limb (Cruz), and i'm not sure if that would be considered "outside" or "inside".

Warmups, then had discussion of theory followed by free-movement guided by the goal of performing the skill, which was: "Seeing and moving into and through negative space: Don't fight the opponent, instead move to the places where they are not at and use that to move through/around them." Demonstrated how this technique naturally opened up a lot of very effective positions and angles, and how it was superior to focusing on the attacker themself; there is a principle where people move toward anything they focus on, and if the thing you are focusing on is an attack, then you're going to move into the shot. Next was floor drills and demonstrations of the usefulness of kicking your body (in a step) instead of your foot in order to move quickly - instead of using the chamber to sling your foot, instead shift and slam your weight behind and turn it into a step in. Ran circles around them demoing this with circular kicks, then had them go up and down the room a few times. Also: There are two common flinch reactions to flinging an offense in someone's face; either covering with both arms, or shying back. Showed how these were very close to two trained positions, and a couple of offenses out of those. (covering is similar to an X-block type movement to which I add a body drop into a squatting floor stance, and the shying is a side stancely offensive position that I try to hammer in to everyone to always attack or otherwise act out of, never just defend and reset.)

Gentle stretch kicks before anything else, then lots of stretches at the end of your exercizes/before bed works well for me. Nothing to the point of pain, just discomfort. lift and hold your leg as high as you can for thirty in each direction when you can to increase your static, which probably helps control the high kicks once you can do them. Then, as with cooking, the secret ingredient is always time.

I was actually paying attention to what I do on this the other day... had never really thought about it much that I recall. I probably intimidate people because I don't look at them at all! Somewhere, someone taught me to keep the opponent's entire body in my peripheral, so I was looking off to the sides of them and past them to catch their whole body out of the side of my vision.

Yeah, it is. The graveyards are full of people who strove mightily to escape the circumstances that they were in shortly before arriving there.