KarateEd

That's an interesting car. I hadn't seen or heard of it before I clicked on your link. I think right at the beginning of the video he spoke of the frame as the real structural element, which made the fabric skin possible. It would probably fair just as well as any other car in crash tests.

I have played Fantasy Football in the past but not last season. When I was in high school a friend tried to get me involved in a fantasy baseball league, but I missed the draft. At the time I didn't know what fantasy sports were, but now I wish I would have participated.

Ooh, man...let's see Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta, or maybe a Jaguar series 1 E-type, or a Birdcage Maserati, or an Aston-Martin BD4 Zagato, or a '69 427 Corvette, or...... It's hard to choose just one.

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In my school we practice/work with the cane, which is a pretty cool "stealth weapon." It can be carried about in public without drawing much attention, if any. We also work some stick fighting. We study traditional weapons, also. I am working with double 'chucks at the moment. Not my favorite weapon, but I've got to learn 'em. I haven't asked exactly why we work with them, but I think I will.

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One place I train has no A/C just a large fan that we place in an open doorway. I work up quite a sweat with the weather we have in the Southeast. Another of our dojangs/dojos has A/C (I think) but it is usually turned way up so it doesn't come on. Ed

A 1983 Mercury Lynx. It was a rather ugly brown, with paint peeling from the hood, a tendency to wear out front tires, and no A/C.

1. New Balance for running 2. Lotto cleats for soccer

A hand made, hardwood bokken, perhaps from Aikiwood or Kingfisher

It seems as though he performed the "move" at an odd time, but it did look like some sort of reinforced outside block.

These are books that I believe should be required reading for MA 1. Living the Martial Way by Forrest Morgan 2. Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams 3. A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi 4. The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho

In Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 it says that there is a time for everything, such as a time for war and a time for peace, a time to kill and a time to heal. I think that the morality of harming someone else is determined by one's motivation. In the example you mentioned, a person sweeps an attacker's leg and the attacker falls on his knife and suffers a mortal wound. Was the sweep intended to kill the attacker in such a manner? No, probably not. It was an accident. The defender is only guilty of defending himself and I do not see this as immoral behavior. This whole scenario would not have taken place had the attacker not given into the selfish and immoral desire to harm someone else. Would you say that the Allies during WWII acted immorally or against the teachings of Christianity? They did cause a number of deaths and acted aggressively once the decision was made to go to war. As for Paul and "bringing death to the Romans" I would argue that it was not his "talent" (or purpose) to do such. His talent was to instruct early Christians in how to be better Christians. The Romans were doing a pretty good job of destroying themselves through decadent ways of living and improper ways of running their empire.

Current Shows - Chuck - Pushing Daisies I was going to list my favorite old TV shows, but I didn't want to be at the computer typing for that long!

I agree I have to disagree here, at least with the "death to yourself" part. As Paul mentions in one of his many letters, as Christians we have cast off the "old man." This "old man" is our worldly self. We are, in a sense, already dead to this world and if we physically expire here we haven't lost anything. We are just moving into a new chapter of our existence. Furthermore, in verse 5 of the 23rd Psalm David says that the Lord "prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies."I see a disregard for death or whatever else "my enemies" can bring upon me. Essentially, we are told not to worry about what will happen. How does this translate into MA/self defense? To me, it allows me to minimize thoughts of what might happen to my person should the need arise to defend myself or others, therefore keeping my mind as free of fetters as possible in the crucial moments of a self defense situation.

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I don't generally read books or articles of much length on the computer. I print them out or buy a hard copy. When I was working on my masters degree I consumed copious quantities of scrap paper printing out journal articles that I found online.

Besides the regular stuff, I carry my cell phone (which has become "regular stuff" I guess) and a pocket knife. Ed

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I had another one. This time I was training under Bruce Lee and with Dan Inosanto. We didn't actually do any MA in the dream. What was funny was that I was the only one that seemed to be aware that this was Bruce Lee. Weird.

I agree. However, having always lived in towns with a significant college or university presence I have never heard of boosters organizing a fighting contest of any sort to raise money for the university. It just strikes me (excuse the pun ) as an odd way of raising money.

I'm surprised that a cage fighting tournament would be sponsored by a university booster club. Seems like there would be other, less physically damaging methods to raise money for a school's athletic program.