Martial_Artist

I don't teach anyone more. Got tired of people, and teaching what I used to teach was very stressful. Now, I don't have to worry about the guns, the knives, the sticks, the fists, the feet, and most importantly the attitudes. Now, I only teach my two sons (4 & 2). Of course, I never taught novices. I only accepted students who were high level anyways with some degree of experience. My sons are the only two I'm teaching from the ground up.

Avoid line of fire while accessing your weapon. Police have what is known as the 21 foot rule. Simply stated: an assailant can close the 21 foot distance and deliver a mortal wound before a trained officer can draw and fire his weapon. This is why officers draw when an assailant is beyond the 21ft and hold the distance. If an aggressive assailant closes that distance the officer, and civilians, can assume risk to life and limb and exercise lethal force. This is because you can close 21ft and closer faster and deliver a mortal wound before your target can either respond or stop you. This is also because bullets rarely stop people in their tracks. And they don't "knock" people down. 10feet is less than half the danger zone distance and reaction time. A sidestep away from line of fire while accessing weapon and returning fire is the most prudent course of action. When you side step if the assailant fires the bullet will most likely miss any vital targets. You are accessing your weapon and returning fire to a stationary target. Hitting COM or CPU and the assailant will sustain mortal wounds. You are also not just taking one step either. You are in motion, and firing. If assailant ceases fire and lowers weapon, you perform tactical reload and check scene, breaking possible tunnel vision and audio exclusion. If present danger is removed access cellphone and dial emergency number. Inform dispatcher that you have weapon and give description of self. If assailant is down and bleeding out decide whether to perform citizen responder-level first-aid until EMS/Police arrive. Adminster as necessary/chosen. You win gunfight. Possibly sustain gunshot wound to extremity. You people watch too many movies. The human body takes 2-9min to bleed out and die. Even if you sustain an aortal wound you will live 2-3min and depending on the oxygen available to brain be able to fight/function until death. A CPU shot will stop you instantly. That's even considering if the bullet penetrates your skull. Assume that it will. Although there have been cases where it hasn't. Shock and bloodloss kill. In most cases you will not feel being shot. How many of you have ever shot a gun? Do you remember the felt recoil? That's what the assailant feels. It will not throw anyone back, it will not blow things away, it will not knockdown anything. Have any of you ever actually even seen a bullet? Remove it from its casing, that's it. Bullets kill by creating internal bleeding or by damaging vital organs. They do not kill in and of themselves. They create an entry wound, classified as puncture, and a temporary wound cavity. If the bullet passes through you it will leave an exit wound. Depending on bullet type, FMJ JHP, etc., you will have a different size exit wound. 10ft. is awfully close. Guns are not magical. Handguns are even less threatening/mythical. "Remember when God wants someone dead he uses a rifle." "If you know you're going to a gunfight, bring a longarm." "You handgun is designed to keep you alive long enough to access your longarm or for when you run out of ammo with your longarm." Movies are a poor source of knowledge for things pertaining to reality. I am certified American Heart Association Health Service Provider CPR. American Red Cross First Responder level CPR and First-Aid certified. Dealing with trauma and injury is what I have been trained to deal with. I am a former firearm defensive pistol instructor and carbine(AR/M4) defense tactics instructor as part of martial arts instruction I used to give. I no longer teach publicly. 1" @ 25' - pistol sub-1" - M4, iron sights. I'm a good shot. I know what to do in a gunfight. And I would be exceedingly cautious at ten feet. Because I know that even if I hit my target in the thoracic triangle/COM he may still be able to deliver a wound to me(either with a gun or knife or other weapon). And that's because bullets are not magic stoppers. Simply hitting him doesn't mean he is instantly out of the fight. He may die as a result, but it does not mean he is instantly, at that very moment, dead. Still, the choice to fight is yours. The choice to life is either yours, if you choose it, or the assailant's. I have made the decision that I choose. And will not give another the option to decide on their "good-will" whether or not I continue to live. If you think submission will guarantee your survival then make the choice. I don't trust in the good nature of an armed assailant to let me go. Anyone who have made the decision to pull a weapon on me has already made the decision to accept the consequences. Whether I live or he does, he will still have to make a choice: fight or die. Because I will remove the threat. p.s. You cannot compare airsoft or paintball to bullets. You can't even accurately compare simunitions(though they are the best option. Even FATS or Rangemaster 2000 is better than airsoft or paintball). With those options there is no threat of death for either parties. That simple element changes the ballgame. Now, you will not do anything magical in a gunfight. You will not rise to the occasion. You will only rise as high as the highest level of training you have. If you have not trained your body will not perform magic tricks. That's all I have to say and all I'm going to say on the subject. MA.

Favorite? M4A3 SA The one I carry? Handgun.

I carry either a Beretta 8045F in an SS IWB predator or a 92FS in an SS galco f.l.e.t.c.h. high-ride. Both with I also carry a cellphone. SS: Strong-side IWB: In Waist Band. aka ITP: In The Pant https://www.usgalco.com https://www.berettausa.com https://www.predator-holsters.com 1" @ 25ft.

Q: TOPIC. A: Yes.

Bugei.com sells quality blades from around $900 US on up to around $7,600. Paul Chen makes good practice weapons for cheap. The reason japanese swords are so expensive is because of the tamahagane steel they use. The Japanese government regulates how much is mined and distributed to smiths. The top smiths get the best batches. The rarity of the steel and the fact that the best steel goes to the "best" smiths is what drives Japanese sword prices so high. With swords, if you buy responsibly, you get what you pay for. (Notwithstanding high priced antiques)

I usually wear a belt. I have keys. I can pretty much pick anything up and use it to inflict undesirable sensations. My person. Sometimes a pocketknife--if I can remember to put it in my pocket. And that's about it. Oh, and a gun. MA

Ah, a child of politics. My friend lived in Chile just after the time of Pinochet. Crazy stuff.

La Ciudad de las Bestias is a young adult novel. I haven't read any of her other books, so I can't say. I just bought it two days ago. I know next to nothing about the author. So...can't say. Do her books come in english, or did you read the spanish?

"La Ciudad da las Bestias" by Isabel Allende.

Phillipono is also incorrect.

Phillipino is incorrect. It is Filipino. The country is the Republic of the Philippines. Filipino/a is someone from the Philippines. Filipino/Tagalog is the national language.

Uh...I'm a martial artist. So, I picked martial_artist. I know, completely original, huh? Well, it does best describe me.

When I taught, it was $100 US an hour. It was private, not a class, and I heavily screened my students. When I taught in the Philippines, it was private and only a select few. The money was different and I won't bother with converting exchange rates. Some of my students warranted free instruction in the Philippines based on individual circumstance. I paid a spear-wound, a couple knife wounds, broken tooth, bruises, sprangs, severed tendons, and a variety of cuts for my training

And if we take into account the thermal velocity of the sub-space warp field we can abandon fossil fuels utilizing crystalic fusion and hydrolyzed vegetable oil to break the barrier to the 8th dimension thereby discovering Buckaroo Bonzai and creating harmonic melody with all living creatures, hence negating the need to strike for all would co-exist in bliss. It is really quite simple: g2{xu8[E2|1]/mc2}/a2x4*d/t.

This post was originally published as an article in a dedicated KarateForums.com Articles section, which is no longer online. After the section was closed, this article was most to the most appropriate forum in our community. This article is intended as a broad overview of important concepts of achieving power in hitting. I could write a book detailing what needs to be done to develop power and many others have already written books. The intent is to inspire the martial artist to seek out further knowledge and recognize their progress in achieving power in hitting. This article is intended for the martial artist concerned with fighting ability. It is written with the idea that those who read it are those who study the arts for their martial applications. Many of the concepts within this piece are irrelevant to those who study for reasons other than self-defense. We punch our target. We feel our fist hit flesh. We feel, we can gage, with what level of power we have hit our target. We know whether or not we hit hard or not. As we walk the path of the martial arts and throughout the course of our training, each of us at one point is asked to hit something. Whether board or brick, bag or dummy, man or woman we will hit something as we train. When we hit we also know whether or not we are hitting hard. We can feel our weapons as they strike. Whether we admit our faults or not, we know inside the level of power we wield. In self-defense, we must be able to hit our targets hard. To achieve our goal with our hit: to end the fight. For, we must truly understand and hit with the intent that each attack will end the fight. There are no hits in a self-defense fight intended to prolong the fight. You should be hitting to end the fight with each strike. And the fight only continues because the previous strike failed its mission and you must therefore strike again and again, until the conflict has ceased. Then, you strike no more. How does a martial artist attain power? The question may be simply answered with another question: how does a fire build heat? The answer applies to both: with fuel. What fuel can possible make me hit harder? Every attack can be mechanically understood, dissected and analyzed. Every punch can be viewed from a level of effectiveness. Each kick can be understood for its efficacious application. Each fighter can learn to hit harder. First, it is important to understand that power does not come from the size of your muscles. Or the distance you pull your hand back. Or the amount of noise you make when you hit your target. Power comes from strength applied to form - proper form. To punch hard you must learn how to punch properly. You must throw away the useless movements of your body, trim the wasted motions, and punch with a singularity of direction. Your hips, legs, torso, arms must move with the single motive of a punch. If your legs are not helping the punch, then you will lose power. If your arms are solely responsible for the power of the punch then you will not hit as hard as you could. If your hips are left lingering neglected when you punch, then you will not be punching with power. You must hit with the whole of your being, having trimmed the useless and harnessed the neglected, to hit with power. Form must be developed and understood. It must be reflexive and not require conscious thought to execute. You shouldn't have to think about your form as you hit. It should be as natural as breathing. Proper form opens the door for speed. When your body moves at the instinctive then you are allowed to hit with increased speed. Yet, form alone is not enough. Something many martial artists fail to do is maintain excellent physical condition. How many martial artists can run a mile in under ten minutes? How many are in shape? Yet, these same martial artists who expect to do magnificent things with bodies, yet do not condition their bodies to do these things? How can they expect to kick hard, fight long or move smoothly, when their bodies have not been disciplined for such? Only the strictest of discipline wields the capable body. Therefore, a key component of power in hitting is strength of the body. You needn't have large muscles, which I feel hinder a fighter more than help, but you must have strength. You must be able to hold your leg high to the side for a minute or longer with out swaying. You must be able to manipulate your body weight effortlessly. Strength of body allows you to move your body better in the proper form for hitting. A regular and intensive regime of exercise is a must for the martial artist seeking power in hitting. Speed. The faster an object travels the more force it generates as it travels. With proper form, strength of body and speed of limbs you will hit with great force. Speed is developed with time. It is not instant. No matter how fast you feel you are going, speed comes over time and with lots of training. There are exercises that will help. This article's intent is not to delineate every such exercise, but stress the importance of utilizing these exercises toward gaining speed. Much of reflexive speed is innate, you are born with it. However, everyone's level of speed can be conditioned and disciplined and therefore improved. The key to this conditioning is resistance while practicing. It is also having your form reflexive, second-nature. Speed is also improved upon by constant real-time feedback, a.k.a. sparring. Speed, aside from the actual physical speed of the object traveling, is also determinate upon timing. Hitting your opponent unaware does more damage than hitting him when he expects it. And the final component of power that will be covered in this article is breathing. You must know how to breath when hitting. It is more than a superficial scream. It is more than a yell or outburst of air upon impact. It is more than the scope of this article. However, it is important for the martial artist to learn how to breath when hitting. It was taught years ago that power comes from the hips and from your breathing. Power comes from your form and your ability to harness the strength within you. You will never hit as hard as you can until you learn to breath while hitting.

Actually, in every fight I have been the 'humanity'of my opponent has always been on my mind. If I hit him he will feel pain because he is only human. If I break his nose it will hurt. If I break a wrist he won't be able to use it. If I cut him he will bleed. His humanity is always a prominent factor in every fight. Cut him, he'll bleed. Hit him, he'll feel pain. Break him, he'll feel disability. Kill him, he'll die. That is the humanity of a fighter. The humanity of a martial artist is understanding this and using it. You will not kill everyone you fight. But that doesn't mean that person will not die if you do. Regardless if he studies jiu-jitsu, kenpo, karate, or any other martial art. Men bleed. Men hurt. Men die. It doesn't change with style. And THAT is the principle of fighting spoken of in the article. Do with it what you will.

I trained, but not as my regular schedule. I was quite busy getting things ready for the holidays for my family, especially my kids. But, now that the holidays are over I have resumed my regular routine.

When I wrote the squid one, I was drawing a blank. I should have put cooked blood. I like eating calamari rings, usually in a japanese sauce with other chopped seafoods. But, alas, I drew a blank and so I remembered all these Ex-Pats who claimed they hated eating squid. So, I put that instead. BTW, cooked pig's blood or chicken blood is quite untasty.

When four of my tendons in my right hand were severed by a very sharp blade, a technique used by physical therapist was a muscle-stim machine. (short for muscle-stimulation, or electric stimulation) In most medical circles it is known as a muscle-stim. It is good for building small levels of strength. Chiropractors frequently use muscle-stim on the backs of patients to help loosen up tight back muscles, in a sort of electric massage. I had an accident where the muscle-stim on my arm was turned up to fullpower. I thought it was going to break from the force exerted on my arm. It was removed and I was sore for several days. My Uncle is a Chiropractor and so I have access to a muscle-stim. I use one, but only for a "massage". I think that the claim made in "Dragon: The Bruce LeeStory" about wearing muscel-stim on your chest and typing for 20min is the same as 200 pushups. I would never place a muscle-stim directly over your heart either. A Physical Therapist warned me about causing your heart harm. I will admit they are fun to play with, it's amazing watching your arm raise on its own when the pads are placed correctly. But, myself and others don't feel it is a valid "exercise" idea. In fact, when undergoing physical therapy, my therapists and I joked about the muscle-stim devices on sale at the time for your abdomen. Supposedly lose weight with the electronic device that stimulates your abs while you watch TV or something. Just some info to think about.

Well, if it's not on the list, then what was it? The POLL was a test question, but not meant to limit the scope of the answers acceptable in this thread. IF you have eaten a gross food from another culture please share it.

I'm going to say this now, before it erupts and destorys the integrity of this thread. Breakdancer your post is completely out of line. You can much certainly express your opinion without resorting to anger, or expressing veiled threats. (WHAT NOW BOY?!) I suggest, if you want to keep this thread alive, is to cease your attack and make constructive posts, either pro or con, but civilized nonetheless. This is the first and only warning. Heed it.

Well? Oh, let's keep it to actual foods whether of this culture or another. For me there were several when living overseas. Dog. Pig brain. Chicken intestine. Pig Intestine. I think that's all I'll write. Come on guys, spill your beans....literally.

That it true. Same for dog, of course dog is charbroiled, not boiled.

When I was a kid I loved to fry eggs on the sidewalk during the summer.