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My current training (Kempo and Jujitsu... too integrated in my instruction to bother dividing them up): 1) 2 Groundwork 2) 2.5 Trapping, Throws and Takedowns 3) 2 Infighting - Elbows, Knees and Head 4) 2.5 Punching 5) 2 Kicking 6) 1 Weapons I'd add more to some catagories but I'm all out of points.

Bones get harder via calcification. Calcification results in added brittleness. That's my understanding of the process... but I could be wrong.

I think the best arts for multiple attackers are the ones that train you to put someone down with one good, solid, focused, hit in the right place. So a good Muay Thai kick... a good Shotokan punch... or maybe a good pressure point strike (various arts teach them) will help you out in a situation like that. However when I read that story I pictured this one video that's floating around on this forum somewhere. It's of this very very angry guy pummeling about five other people. I think when it comes to multiple attackers (especially attackers that are only doing it for amusement rather than anger or vengeance), attitude matters more than technique. Sometimes you just have to hurt one of them really badly really quickly to make all the others think twice about whether they want to be next. Suddenly they have some of the fear you were feeling. Vicious unrelenting brutal aggression tends to do better than restrained defensiveness in situations like that. But that was an awful situation you probably can never completely prepare for. Still, you can improve your odds at least.

Actually this is the only message board I can think of that I haven't seen any dirty links on. (hmm... p.o.r.n. is censored... is my moral fiber really going to rot away if I see the word p.o.r.n.?)

That snow decided to journey into my basement . Luckily it's mostly dried up now.

Ask a doctor not us .

Look into the Korean styles I say. My biased recommendation would be Hapkido, but there are others of course... take a look through the Korean Arts section.

Starcraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, Unreal Tournament... those are the only net games I've played. Unless you count Yahoo Chess and Reversi .

A razor? That's sad... I'm with Afro.Fighter. I appreciate genuineness in things like that. A faded threadbare old black belt has earned its worn condition just as you've earned your skills. It is what it is. I don't think it should be replaced just because it isn't pristine, unless pristine is the effect you're going for *shrug*. Although if you can't even tie it around you anymore, that might be a good time to retire it and give it a place on the mantle or something.

I came into my current arts already knowing the basics so I skipped yellow belt. I don't know how that sounds to you, but it doesn't sound that encouraging to me regarding ability. A lot of people already have an idea of how to fight before going into martial arts because maybe they've watched a lot of fights or been in them. I'd say at yellow belt a person would be only slightly better than they were before taking the class. So there are some yellow belts that can handle themselves and some that probably can't .

You can also build a platform to stand on that the post goes down into.

Yeah... sometimes the only way to achieve legendary greatness in something is just plain unhealthy life-neglecting obsession . It doesn't bode well for us people who want to think about other things in life too.

Wouldn't that be "imply that any martial art is better than Aikido"? Just kidding, Kensai. I love Aikido and I'm glad you're on the board.

The problem with that is all of the best martial artists I've come in contact with don't feel they have anything to prove anymore. They have more of a "been there done that" attitude about competition. It's no longer relevant to them.

That's what I was going to say but I couldn't really think of a way to say it. Often Kung Fu seems to look more... "extravagant". Not a good or a bad thing... like you said... just a bit more flair and eccentricity. More screen-friendly.

Our brains are wired to form patterns so we can recognize whether things might be dangerous or not without having encountered it before. I think it still applies when it comes to "thing with giant teeth might maul me"... but in this kind of situation it probably just makes life harder.

I roll it up back and forth when I get a new one, but I don't do a whole lot to it. I see loosening it up by wearing it as part of the process.

For us a sun punch is vertical and uses the last 3 knuckles instead of the first 2 (requires a new wrist alignment of course).

No one can stop you from doing whatever you want, but the thing that bothers me is that people will be told that this knowledge will protect them in the event that they need it, and someday they may actually end up using it. Personally I'd have to be extremely obsessively sure I was giving them the best information I possibly could in order to sleep well at night. So my question is more who's cut out to develop a martial art and who isn't, but we're all already struggling with that anyway.

My instructor just wouldn't teach those crazy people from the start I think .

Perfect Weapon is Kenpo... I guess that's technically a Karate movie.

I believe the instructor at Trident is ex-special forces... but I've never been in there. I only know someone who knows a little bit about it. They offer Muay Thai, BJJ, Jeet Kun Do Concepts, and Filipino weapons according to their signs.

A balm.

From what I know conditioning like iron palm can give you blood clots (very bad) unless you use something like dit da jow properly afterwards.

Guess we know where his outbox is.