The BB of C

From what I hear, it's a martial arts legend that a true master can fight effectively while intoxicated. With this concept in mind the drunken styles were most likely invented under. As far as their applicability, I'm sure it's more than possible to either mimic or actually do, but it must be very difficult.

I suggest the next time he asks you to do more, ask him how to fix them before you do anymore and take it from there.

Writing books is actually my primary hobby. But because of circumstances of which I have little control I do martial arts more than writing.

Try not putting it under your karate belt but in it. Wrap it around the sheath, and then wrap it around you. Bring it normally in front of you and then back around and when you do that, make sure it goes back over the sheath again. Tie the belt really tight. It worked for me.

I made an ethnics code for myself to help control my martial arts in a conflict. I also strongly encourage people to try it too. Anyway, it's written in my signature. Notice the "Preservance of human life"? That means that in a conflict I don't do anything that could cause permanent damage. My goal is to inflict a great amount of pain on my opponent without really damaging. I feel that if, as a normal civillian (not a politician, soldier, lawer, or law enforcement officer) if you permanently injure someone trying to do the same to you, even in self-defense, you're no better than them. Returning to the topic at hand; after they're in too much pain to continue, perhaps if it was really bad under my style they'd have a broken arm or dislocated joint, I would see to it that they are treated and then punished rightly by the law for attempting to harm me.

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I suggest challenging him to a spar. Don't let his size get the best of you. You can still do it. Just keep your guard on your face when he's attacking, pay no attention to blows you might take to the chest, work his belly with your fists and make his legs red and sore with low kicks. Keep coming if you can and don't stop attacking unless you have to. That's how I suggest sparring him. Until that happens, drive out your fear of him and make it clear as day that you are not afraid of him. Even mess with his head if you can.

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It's because of the whole commercialization and modernization of martial arts. I'm sure you know what I mean by that. DISCLAIMER: Everything I am about to say is directly my own oppinion that has come from my personal experience with martial arts, martial arts schools, and martial artists in general. I do not apply this in a universal perspective. Most schools I've seen claim to be self defense schools that teach good techniques. But they never teach how to do them, when to do them. In simplicity, how to apply them to a street situation because they're over concerned with the student's safety. The only reason they're concerned with the student's safety because everyone is afraid of a lawsuit. They fail to realize that the Shiolin martial monks train by striking bricks, water, sand, and having bamboo sticks broken on their backs and spears pressed against their neck. I'm sure these kids can take a few moments of having their wrist or arm bent in an uncomfortable direction during a class. I've been in trouble and seen other people get in trouble for hitting an opponent during sparring. Does that make much sense to you? Most schools in sparring wear more armor than a European knight during the Feudal era. Then there is the cockyness of black belts. Even when modesty is "taught" in the schools, outside they are still a black belt in their mind and they still think they're indestructible and everyone who doesn't have as much training or is a lower rank than them in a/the style can't beat them. Even after they get beaten they come up with excuses to why they lost. "I wasn't hardly trying" is the one I hear most often. I have fought a number of black belts both in and out of class. I have beaten most of them. There are three I know personally I cannot defeat. One of them is my cousin, a second or third degree in Inshonryu (I think that's how it's spelled. Pardon me if I got it wrong, please) and had good training. The other two are my friends, one is a second degree and the older brother to the other one who is a first degree. They too have had good training and have had twice as much fight experience as me. Other than that, the other 7 I've fought are lousy excuses for martial artists and got by in class because they could memorize forms and the sequence of techniques. They get overcome by me in fights and spars and I admit I am not that powerful. All it does is say to me that Black Belt rarely means something nowadays. I know there's more but I can't remember it off the top of my head. Is there anything else you think I didn't explain from my point of view?

I suggest a full out charge. Keep your guard on your temples and try to cover your face without taking your eyes off of him. I suggest running straight for him as fast and hard as you can. You may take a few hits but if you can take it and keep moving it will pay off and be worth it when you're too close for him to throw a punch or even a kick. From there I suggest secondary limbs (elbows, knees, even headbutts) or take downs. Or, move in with your guards up and as soon as he goes for a kick, wrap yourself into it and keep a grip on that leg. He'll probably try to use his other leg to go for your head. Don't hesitate on taking that hit. If he has no legs on the ground he can't do anything to you, so from there you can just throw him.

Underestimate me, not, my friend. I take shots like that all the time and just as bad (if not worse) when I spar with my other martial artist friends and my older brother. I enjoy it quite a bit. And I am not trying to brag but I am good at taking shots to the head. People have hit me in the head like those videos and hurt their foot while I'm standing there like "Please tell me that's not all" I know what you mean. I hate that so much! One more thing. On the off chance anyone cares I'll probably be making another video within the next couple weeks

Black belt does not mean much to me. I believe there was a time when "black belt" would actually mean something somewhere. But nowadays, in my eyes, all I see are good martial artists and bad ones. It's not often I see rank actually mean something.

Martial arts give me a sort of comfort in my life. It helps me a lot to know that I could find an enjoyable career for myself despite my lack of ability to think on the right side of my brain. It helps me vent my anger a little bit. I like the idea of me passing my knowledge onto my friends or family who I know need it so they can defend themselves in a tight situation and if I should need them myself, I'll be able to.

For the first one: That looks like my kind of tournament! Good work. For the second one: BOOM! Headshot! That was a cool video. I wish tests in my school were like that.

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I got an idea. Why not make a bunch of drawings and put them together in a flip book type of thing, scan them to your computer, put them in a movie maker program, and save it to YouTube or something. That would work. It would take a long-freaking time to do it all but it would work.

Really? Thank you. Does anyone else have any?

Oh snap those things are huge! I placed first in most of the events at the last tournament I went to and got a bunch of tiny medals Those trophies are cool. Good work.

You Are 39% Addicted to the Internet http://images.blogthings.com/areyouaddictedtotheinternetquiz/internet-2.jpg Internet? Please. You're definitely not geeky enough to be that addicted. You have a full life off your computer - and the internet is just a small pastime. I honestly thought I was going to get more.

This is a law nobody I ever knew thought made sense. People are not allowed to sell or carry nunchucks in the state of New York because they are a concelled weapon. But there are a few things I see wrong with this law that just make it so it doesn't make sense. Let's take in mind a couple things first. You can't sell pre-made nunchucks made of wood here. You could still get them off the internet or a magazine for probably $15-$20 plus whatever taxes may be included. You can however sell and buy a practice pair (plastic chains or rope bindings, wood covered in thick padding) for on $10-$12. Here's the kicker though, you're allowed to sell the chain gears for nunchucks (I got mine for $4). Now, all you need is a stick (I got mine for $3) and sew it all together you get a $20 pair of nunchucks for $7-$8! So we're not allowed to sell wood nunchucks, but we can sell and buy the parts to make them? Does that make any sense at all? Seems like kind of a worthless law for me. Especially because in the martial arts store I go to, they sell sais, knives of all kinds, tonfas, bo-staffs, three-sectioned-staffs which are like nunchucks only worse and all sorts of swords! Things that are much more deadly than a nunchuck but the nunchuck is the illigal one. Among the throwing knives and the shurikens and the swords and everything else that could kill someone with one strike? Is there anyone here that can explain how this "no selling nunchucks" law is supposed to work?

There are things you can do. I have seen posters all of the time in stores and resturants and martial arts schools and everywhere saying "We reserve the right to refuse service" and then some stuff after that. I would definately kick a trainee out of my classes if that was going on, or if I couldn't trust them with the powers I was giving them. I'd kick them out in a flash and you know what? They'd have to deal with it too.

I agree 100%. I can almost guarantee I will never be in a situation where I would use my martial arts weapons(That's what my gun is for ), but I study them because I am interested in them, not for a practical purpose. I also agree. I'm not a big fan of the gun part. But these things can always be fun to know.

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Okay fine. But you brought this on yourself This is a video of the best parts of the Christmas Tournament (December 15, 2006) at the Kuk Sool Won school we go to. My little brother's competition is first in the video then mine. Getting our inspiration from Zero Gravity, my friends and I got into fight choreography. This was our first video. I think it's got good camera technique but I don't think it came out too good because we couldn't use very good moves because my friend isn't as good at taking hits as I am so we had to be slow and careful. This is our second one with a different one of my friends. I like the fight choreography in this one but my friend there didn't want to bother with the camera technique I was using at the time. So we just did the whole thing in one take and this is what we came out with. This one I actually like to show off. It's got good moves, choreography, and camera technique. Now let's hear it for the BB of C who just one week before filming figured out a way to get camera angles quickly and just as effectively! This one is actually very recent (about 3 days old). We had this school week off so my friend from the second video got a couple of his friends together and we did this video a couple days ago. I just finished editing and uploading it yesterday.

If it's a street defense class I think the women should actually be trained harder than the men because from what I've heard a woman is 3x more likely to be attacked. They all need to be as good as they possibly can do defend themselves at any given time. I was brought up on the words of my older brother "Don't ever hit a girl. Be a man. But if you should ever need without any questions asked fight a girl, tie her up." So I noticed a lot of you don't grapple with girls. That's all I do against them if I can. Of course in sparring class at Kuk Sool Won grappling wasn't allowed so I had to actually hit them. Of course I didn't feel good about it but I still didn't hold back. Open spot? Fill it with my foot. Guards not high enough? They'll find my glove in their face before they can blink. Just like I would do sparring a man. Despite the words of my older brother I don't hold back in tournaments either because there are titles on the line. I believe it's good for them anyway. Especially because I have a set code I live by where I won't do anything too bad to them. But they'll get no such love on any level from someone on the street. If I was training a woman, however, things would be just a little bit different. But not in a way that the man's training would be more beneficial or the other way around. I have thought of ways for women to go about my training strategies and get the same results as a man.