ckdstudent

We get quite a lot of that, I've had to talk to a lot of kids about bullying, although never about one of them doing the bullying, they always seem to be the bullied. We also try and keep up with what's going on, so if a kid isn't doing so well in school, and they're capable of doing better, we'll chat with them about it. Maybe a psychology degree should be required for martial artists.

I imagine that was why they asked a question rather than simply accusing the art of being pointless for self defense 360, so that they could become better informed.

I'd quite happily carry a mace, I'm not aware of any laws which refer to it specifically so I could probably build up a decent case to let me carry it. The chemical spray though is definitely illegal.

How do you tell which is which until its too late? If they know that they're going to be fought every step of the way then hijackings will become a lot rarer. [ This Message was edited by: ckdstudent on 2002-06-13 13:27 ]

Don't remind me about the car insurance, I've never had an accident or even a close call and last year I had to pay a third of the value of my car in insurance, I drive a poxy little two-door one-litre contraption that starts to shake whenever I go above the national speed limit. Someone did try and call discrimination, I believe that they were overweight, a smoker and had a family history of bad hearts. The ruling was that the company was completely justified in its use of statistics. Usually whenever they raise prices for one group they cut them by slightly less for another.

Again, something that fits on the hand but not along the Wolverine lines, maybe some sort of fist-shield type thing.

I like the health insurance part, let's see if we can do that for smokers too. Actually some insurance companies are already doing these, its legal because those people are more likely to suffer from health problems, so they cost the company more, therefore they should pay more.

No problem, although you could have founded a whole new martial art.

We do occasionally get a few problems with arrogance, particularly amoung new students. It tends to be cracked down on quickly by those of us who are better and wiser

Unfortunately mace is illegal over here, and yet many American women (and not as many men) carry it in their handbag, unaware that using it constitutes an assault under any circumstances.

Actually why not just use gas to keep the passengers quiet the whole way anyway? You save on flight staff, you could store your passengers in tubes and so fit more onto the plane, you save on food and entertainment, and the only remaining security risk is bombing.

If you are carrying a knife and use it during a fight then you cannot plea self-defence, at least in England. With work knives though, ie craft knives, pen knives, the jury is still undecided and the plea can go either way.

What other coutry in the world had the foresight to take away our rights to protect our selves?

Just so long as the air marshalls don't have guns. Actually I think the best solution would be to completely isolate the pilots from the passengers, seal them off entirely, don't even give them communication. You'd probably need an extra two co-pilots in case of emergencies, but if they can't be reached from the body of the plane and can't tell what's going on then its not going to make any difference what happens back there, there's bnothing they can do about it so there'd be no point hijacking the plane.

Isn't Dim Mak just any single killing technique, so breaking the neck would be a part of it, or a sharp knife finger thrust to the windpipe?

Also make sure that you hang it somewhere very secure, there's a hole in the ceiling at a friend of mine's because he forgot that part.

Absolutely, a small arsenal: - long coat - bunch of keys - wallet filled with change - mobile phone - sharpened credit card (still works too) - belt

The same goes for, say, a doctorate. What do you get for your seven years of hard study and research? A piece of paper and two letters in front of your name, once you've got it its up to you to make it worth something.

There is some involuntary basis behind it. Yes they could probably overcome that, but the question is why did they start eating so much in the first place?

If its a well made leather punch bag you can hit it with pretty much whatever you want, with the possible exception of sharp blades.

You might want to consider doing some flyers and advertising beforehand, so that people know about the open house.

I know people who have adhered to strict, balanced diets their entire lives and are still overweight. I know others (myself included) who don't even know the meaning of the word healthy as it applies to food (I'll eat whatever's put in front of me on a plate, and lots of it) but still maintain a decent, healthy figure.

If you offer trial classes, make sure that your insurance covers it. Most do but some don't.

We're just told to keep it out of class. It took two months before most of the people in my class actually found out that my fiance was training there, and that was only because a friend of mine told them.

Yes, it does give the correct posture for some punches but to be honest its better to train that simply by practicing the punch over and over, works faster than the pushups too.