bushido_man96

Interesting info....I did not know that. I saw the charts, and that purple heart wood looked to be the way to go. I'll bet its expensive, though.

Jet Li and Jackie Chan have both had their fair shares of cartoony fights in movies as well.

Wow, interesting. Glad I don't drink them.

Good post, bearich.

You know, I never thought of that analogy. I just might have to use it sometime "Its only a flesh wound!"

Well, it looks like you are getting a lot of videos for $100. Hopefully, they are good quality. Unfortunately, you won't know until you get them. As for learning without an instructor, I say if this is your only option, then go for it. Perhaps later on you will be able to find someone to teach you.

14 events held at every modern day Olympic games: 100-, 400-, 800-, and 1500-meter races, the marathon, 110 m. hurdles, high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, shot put, discus, 1500 m. freestyle swimming, and individual saber. Taken from By the Sword, written by Richard Cohen.

It sounds like things are going well, Kez!

Wow, you do better than I do, then. Whenever I fight sword against spear, I find it difficult to defend against the reach and thrust.

The nice thing about rattan is that when it breaks, it won't splinter off and cause serious injury.

Your feet will calous up in time. Just remember to keep your hands up for defense!

Congratulations! It sounds like you have a great supporting group there with you. Keep up the good work!

Cool! Congratulations!

Welcome aboard!

Welcome to KF, Clint!

You are very welcome!

Wow, another nail biter. I don't know if my nerves can handle many more like this! A pretty good day, overall; LJ had 155 rushing yards, 26 recieving yards, and 4 touchdowns, and Damon Huard had his first career 300 yard passing game. Tony Gonzalez was huge, and Eddie Kennison made some great catches. The defense played ok, other than giving up a big play where Ty Law fell down. If not for that and the special teams snafu, all would have been well. My college team also won their first game of the season this weekend, so hooray!!

I don't like peas, either. Peas are not a food and have no business in anybody's soup!

TMNT.!! I would use the rattan, or a hard wood staff, like oak.

I'm sure they could do plenty of damage. You can generate a lot of force with the twirling motions.

yes, I failed the jr nidan test, so they told me to wait until I was old enough to test for the real nidan. Just chalk it up as a learning experience. Keep practicing, and continue to work hard, and you will get there in time.

Good for you!! Excellent, excellent, excellent!

It looks to me like you summed up your options, as far as no-kata arts go. You could also add caporiea to the mix, I think.

This kind of relates to the points that I made earlier. When I teach self-defense, I don't advocate the "sit and wait" approach of making sure the opponent takes the first swing. One reason for this is the fact that not everyone has the fast reactions to properly counter before getting hit. Another reason is that counter attacking, which in most cases is taught as "block and counter," usually only assumes that one attack is coming. I am a big advocate of the pre-emptive strike. Now, that doesn't mean I like to initiate a confrontation, but if someone is being threatening towards me, then why should I wait for them to take their best shot?

This is a good point. To it, I would like to add: if effectiveness is comprimised, then so is the integrity, to an extent. Now, there are some things that we are going to do that are ineffective, but we do them just because they are fun. I am one of these people. However, we should always keep effectivness in mind.