JerryLove

Get witnesses and the report him for battery (or assault, depending on where you live).

I believe he's referring to "triangle stepping", though right this momemnt my brain doesn't feel up for a "from scratch" dissertation on that in text.

Actually, it just sounds like a generalization

I believe he's trolling DM.

You use paralax shift to determine depth and location (it's how you see in 3d). You stand at one point, and take a bearing on a taret. Then you stand at another point with a known relationship t othe first point and take a bearing. Where the two vectors cross is the location of the object you were taking a bearing on. I assume this is not what you are looking for; but I don't know what you are looking for and this is what you asked.

I doubt it, no leverage.

"jing" is an expression of energy. "fa" or "explosive" is one expression of energy.

I finally saw this show... erm... all I'm gonna say is "blech" and go back to other threads.

I contracted bicep does not a straight arm make. If you are asking weather an armbar can be performed on an arm that is kept bent, the answer is "no". The whole issue of skill is in getting the person with the bent arm to unbend. Though the same issue of intent works. You are stronger trying to (for example) touch your chest with your hand than you are if you try to just hold the bend when someone is trying to straighten it.

Steriods are not an equalizer, they are an advantage. If you read me to say that a person strength-training now was weaker than a person then; then you misread. I was pointing out the *average* person.

I have to disagree with some of the underlying points. Professional competitors (who certainly do benifit from modernization of training) I don't see an inherent difference in unarmed combat between then and now except in the exposure to more ideas. It's no about "killing blows", it's aboue fight winning blows. Once I've won, I can dispatch you with ease. That's as true now as it was "then"; and medicine has nothing to do with it. The modern man is fat, weak, and slow (as a generalizaion) having gone from a time when almost all worked with their hands and ran from place to place to a time when we spend most of our lives on your butt. I think the Spartains would have kicked butt in NHB.

I'm only pointing out that the proliferation or success of seomthing does not neccessairily indicate its value or efficacy.

There are a couple different methods from which to get the unbending arm effect; and I'm not entirely certain of how all of them work. An easy one would be to try to reach at a point. Like when you are beinging over a tame to get something on the far side and you can almost make it, and you keep extending out to try to reach it. You'll find this has several effects on your arm. One thing it does is involve more muscles. When we try to manipulate our own body (hold our arm straight) we tend to do it in isolation. When we try to accomplish somthing we do all the time, we do it more completely. Further, when we try to resist a force, we tense. This borth breaks structure and causes muscles on the other side of our arm to work against us... again, reaching solves this problem. Then the Chinese will talk something about tendos vs ligaments vs muscles.

The Greeks, for a very long time, used a a type of warrior called a "Hoplite" in Phalanxs. Through centuries this method of warfare was tested and refined... against other Greeks. Till the Macedonians came in with a better tactic and defeated the Greek Phalanx. The problem was that the Phalanx made too many assumptions.

Actually, and ignoring the effects of mental conditioning, people who fight regularly in a martial art should be less prone to rage (positive effect of exercise). I also recommend role-playing attacker for SD seminars.. great way to work out aggressions.

Unbending arm would not provide useful protection from a joint hyperextension if you were in an armbar... so "yes".

Wrong direction... having an unbending quality to your arm will make getting the arm bar far more difficult (as manipulating an arm with that energy in it is difficult); but should the bar be gotten, you really *want* to bend it to get out.

Of course, there is the Biblical position that when you draw from outside yourself, it is either from God or it is not from God. If it is not from God, then it is from satan and the OT commands death for people who do so.

There is a difference in levels of acceptance. Anything you'd care to imagine happens everywhere; but it's prevelence and how acceptedit is varies. From my talk with the Swedish guy, when the broken rib from being beaten by police came up in court; the judge recommend him just not mentioning it and had it removed from the record... That would not happen here. Gun ownership is higher here, so gun violence is more common. We whip out weapons the same as you whip out weapons... it's just more likely that ours is a fiream than for you. So just imagine what you have throughout Europe (The US varies by local to) and replace somteims the knife came out with a pistol.

I was not cirtiquing KM as a general SD art. I'm still addressing your comment that it is designed for all people of all sizes and ages. OTOH, I'm probably moving pretty heavily off topic. I've stated my opinion, and you yours; and I don't consider this an important enough point to argue on this thread.

Which fits with what I have seen of it; hence my criticism. Small, fragile people don't tend to do well with an art the focuses on hitting very hard and many time... they tend to do well in arts that are positional or techincal. This is because their ability to inflict power is inherently limited by their strength, mass, and fragility. This is also the appeal of pressure point arts, but in my experience they cannot be effectively implamented under fighting situations. A 90 pound 70-year-old lady has to defend herself against a 160lb 40-year-old man... would you think she would do better with a jujitsu or boxing? Why?

I don't know about England (though I hear Scotland has a real problem with knife violence and soccer riots are far from unheard of); but I was talking with a friend in sweeden, who has a broken rib from where the police beaat him, and it seems that an awful lot goes on the Europe, by way of violence and brutality, that would not be tolerated in *my* state.

I'll go further: if you want to attack incoming limbs, I'd argue the "boxer's guard" is not a good position to want to be in... It works well in boxing and arts with a similar approach as the arms ar used as shields; but if you are after arms with lateral mobility and some idea of where to move to, it's pretty awkward.

Remember Treebranch, the question is in context of multiple attacker scenerios.

For girls, go for the sharp hit, for men go for the flat "squash". As to touriments; a great deal is usually disallowed. Were it only the gorin, I'd recomment the inner leg as a response to a high kick (or more effectively, the knee).