JerryLove

You can actually grab the artiery with a cooperatve victim. BTW, knocking someone out kills brain cells, and can be accidentally fatal.

The man was not jailed for shooting to defend his home... The man was jailed for coming downstairs with a shotgun, to a booby-trapped room where his dogs had already attacked a pair of burglars who were attempting to fell and pleading for their lives as he shot one then persued the other across a field and shot him too. That's a little different than "defending your home because you are afraid".

My instructor is an Neijia guy, including Taji; and I am quite impressed with his fighting ability. As to my ability to point to a competative primarily Taiji fighter, I can't think of one. I also have learned Taiji as a combative art, though my major focus is Silat.

You should really work on your psyco-socail skills. You're conclusion is in error.

I'm also curious, assuming your "for people like mr.Love" comment says you would be different for someone else, how you plan on determining who "people like me" are. We don't exactly walk around with club IDs

LOL BTW, "Jerry" is just fine.

You wonder about someone who points to NASA as pushing for a combat art; sounds fishy (no pun intended)

Ahh yes, the monkey sound... *Really* neat in person (the effect is lost when it's recorded and played back)... Been meaning to find out the origins of that one; I had thought it was Tibetian but I was taugt it by a southern Chinese/Indo artist (uncle bill).

I'm gonna agree with you... but only because I hope my opponents follow your example.. On the other hand, what do I care what you think; since you are, after all, unarmed.

I recall it back in 60s Bond movies and 70s action pics... unless you are quibbling over a particular pronounciation. Personaly, I've yet to run into a Karate school that makes a useful/proper sound.

It is indeed a reference to the ki-ai (sprit yell) which does indeed appear in Karate' arts.

I'm not worried about the attacker getting good practice here; but I am concerned that the defender will not learn to protect such areas as "the equipment works". I think the Dog Borthers stick stuff illustrates this issue very well. They are very good with their stick because they are used to using them at speed against reisting opponents... because of te required safety issues, they remove the most functional of attacks from the stick and therefore end up in grappling despite the ability of a stick to end a fight by well placed, early strikes. However, if you want to simulate the effect of having a piece of rebar break your hand you are no longer looking at resisting opponents; but rather one's trying to figure out what to call in what amounts to "point sparring". So do you want resistance that is not zealous enough? Or resistance that is not realiastically damaged?

LOL I thank your for the confidence I have all the appropriate permits, I'm less armed than some I know, and I'm really not a "nut"

That's saying that there are no differences in any people when it comes to martial arts. Men and women are physically different.

Oh. missed that... Knife or sword... though the most available weapons is the morning star I use for a door-stop.

I won't speak for "some"... If I've ever given the impression that I felt the rules were concocted to make one art look good; that was never my intent... I do think that the conditions of a UFC have differences from the conditions of a "real fight"; and that these difference can and do change the dynamic of the fight. I've listed them and why, and will not waste both our time doing so again.

Requiring gloves would favor strikers as it makes grappling more difficult. They are not there to hurt gunfighters either; but gunfighters are none-the-less rendered impotent by them. That would be like people complaining the football favors strong people... From an "entering teh UFC" standpoint, it would be rediculious to whine about some percieved bias.. but when you see with what grain of salt you should use such competitions as a guide from which to decide how unarranged fights occur...

The best weapon I had available... a firearm preferrably.

Considering Bruce's focus on "keep what works discard what doesn't" I think he would have taken to modern MMA quite eagerly and with great gusto (as he took to the rather mixed martial art her was doing). And I've seen some very powerful little old men... but there are some very skilled big young men who have severe power and strength advantages who can beat them.

Depends on how technical you would like to get.

This is why no grappler worth his Gi pulls up when applying a RNC... They will sit down... Kinda screws up every kicking/stomping response.

Two schools of thought: accentuate the positive or de-emphasize the negative. So if you are big and powerful but not mobile; we can make you more mobile and therefore well rounded, or we can mak you more powerful making you unstopable in your own element, but with a hole.

That would be levitation.

I don't agree that weather you compete is the primary factor in the defition.. If you train "for the purpose of winning the competition" and it happens to work well fighting, you are in a sport... If you train "for the purpose of a non-competative fight" and you happen to compete, then you are not in a sport. A fencer, for example, does not train to win a sword fight, he trains to win a fencing match; so fencing is a sport despite the fact that a fencer is an excellent swordsman. A guy working sticks in Kali is not training for a match, and so is not in a sport.

Throwing is primarily leverage... If you are not throwing, then you are not doing it correctly.