JerryLove

And your destroy your argument with your quote: "karate has to come natural in a fight, if you have to think about using karate in a fight, you will loose the fight" Everyone has a plan right up until they get hit. The more specific your plan, the more you ahve set yourself up for failure. If I have a knife in my hand, my hand is moving (BTW, I've probibly not announced I even have it). If you put your foot up, your leg will get cut. If you are close enough to kick my rib.. .I'm not going to defend it, I'm going to cut the inside-back of your knee and that rather large artery there (you can feel the pulse if you try)... if it's close enough, I'll go for the arteries and tendons in your groin or abdomen... preferrably filleting skin off as your leg retracts... If my hands are higher, it's your torso/neck/arms you should be worrying about... I'll risk a kick to my rib... you'll bleed out in about 3 minutes.

and your statement was typical WC... move off his center-line and point your weapons at him. The problem lies an attempting to do this against an attacker who does not commit a limb. You can try to go into sticky-hands, but unless you are completely dominiate the grapple, you will get a lot of cuts trying for a bridge. It sounded / sounds like your intent is to move off the line of the attack and you believe that you will have relative position simply from that step. a conservative with the knife will not extend the knife, he will simply advance; your angle-step requires nothing from him but a slight turn of the waist and you still have that knife between the two of you. I think you would do better to advance into him... you ill likely get cut, but you can hope to control the fight right then and there... if yo manuver for position from within the range of his weapon; I forsee you getting cut a lot more. You cannot be both out of his range and in control of his actions. I stand by my earlier comment that the only two positions you want are "too far to reach" and "smothering". Any other range and it's too much like fighting... but he has a knife. Touch your left arm with your right hand and turn left. If they get their hand away, then they gave up control.. if they do not get their hand away, they are bleeding. Now start with both your hands in front of your chest so the distance to your left arm is about 6 inches. Now try simply turning. Mostly perepherary veins intended to supply the sphincter. The arteries for the legs (as well as some rather important tendonds) run through either side of the crotch.. the returning veins run under the "cheeks". I believe that I should continue breathing. If I over-react to someone who didn't ean to kill me; or can run away from someone who did, it's all good as long as I get to keep breathing. Civic duty is nice and all, but it comes after self-preservation.

The subject? Sometihng about flame-broiling vs cooking on a flat-plate I think.

Force applied over time-space. Want an example of how force changes effect? Put a phone book over a concrete slab and tehn hit it... use half what you normally would to break it. That was rather my point... "wind != chi" unless you want to call "blowing out a candle" a chi example. Oh.. so close Points for guessing Actual levitation (20 seconds air-time should do it) would certainly do the trick. Turning off lights without going to the switch?

Versus A Skilled Attacker: Don't defend against the knife at all... attack the knife. You'll get cut, don't try to avoid doing that... just attack that knife and render it useless as a weapon against you (take it if you can). Versus an Unskilled Attacker: Same thing.. you've just got a little more room for error. Versus Multiple Unskilled Attackers: Same as with unarmed attackers... deal with the closest first; use him as a shield where possible. Focus on getting your own weapon and inflicting as much damage as possable... take them with you. Versus Multiple Skilled Attackers: Give my regards to whatever God you pray to. Of course, get away whenever possible. Avoid the fight whenever possable. Shoot them whenever possible. Etc.

Every dictionary will give a definition more similar to mine than yours. The meansings, in English, are defined by the people, not the person. You are a person. You can mean whatever you like, but you are not speaking English to do so. No, it's definately a requriement to remain English. So a "master carpenter" is someone who "can command the use of carpentry at a whim"? Or a master electrician? Or a master musician? I can command the use of Qi at a whim, so I guess I'm a master now? A whim is an investment. Well, tell me when you want to discuss this in English. Thanks for letting me know how your language works and good luck with that.

I've taught people with no training to go through a concrete slab in a matter of minutes... no chi required. I'm thinking now about what clothes I'm wearing. Tell my what I'm wearing and I'll come study from you. Put the candle inside a window (closed) and stand outside and do it. See how that works. This isn't really a sentance. are you claiming you've had a major artery open up and not bled out without applying pressure? Which one? I think we all agree that the brain controls herat-rate. So far, you've offered nothing I would have said "you can't do that". Off the ground entirely? Physics. Off the ground partially? Nothing at all, I have several friends that can do it... none are in martial arts. I also have no reports at all of an intact door being taken off its hinges by an individual... care to support? While I reserve judgement on the credability of your claim, you still have not defied physics any more than me putting a straw through an orange does (which is to say 'not at all"). Show me one person lifting a weight over 2000 lbs (and BTW, that one's possible skelatally, unlike many of your claims).

Fireka, It's hardly support to say "many people have been wrong about other things". At present, you have a strong, positive claim with no viable support offered. Simple assertion (which is really all your offer), particularly assertion which flies in the face of reasonable understanding is hardly a useful tool in determaning anything but the mindset of the person making the assertion.

That's what I tell opponents with weapons too.. and while they are putting away their knife, I shoot them. (obviouslly not an actual story, just making a point of where *my* mindset is)

I've seen an iguana drop off a 30 foot roof onto concrete without injury.. but I don't think it was chi. That said, I'm still known to drop off my roof onto my lawn (about 3 meters)... it's very do-able. FirekaL my problem with your statement is that you like to place numbers on things without the ability to support them. I find a strong difference between "we can do more than we think" (which I consider a weak claim), and "if you increase your neural activity, you will be 4000 times more powerful" (a strong claim, made without real support. I'm willing to bet that there are things that I don't think that can be done that can; and things I think that are possible that are not. But I do attempt to maintain a level of realism here... If there's someone out there juggling cars and stopping bullets, please make sure to point me at him... until then I will continue to remember the lessons of attempts to test such power (for example, the boxer's rebellion in China).

Cartainly debateable... Hisenberg uncertainty would indicate a "no", untill you realize that the butterfly effect is likely to negate uncertainty in this case.

Unfortunately you ignore the most obvious and most dangerous solution he can take... simply marching forward toward you. Agrred but MAKE SURE YOU CONTROL THE KNIFE! Never give up that control for anything else (except perhaps, an opportunity to flee). Untrue, there are large veins running in the posterior to feed the legs; these are the arteries that most commonly undergo deep-vein-thrombosis and kill people for sitting in one position too long. Severing one of these will cause him to bleed out reasonably quickly. Aditionally, there are many nerve onduits which control the legs... you've got a good shot at causing paralaysis. What he does or odes not deserve is not really a concern... me not being dead tmorrow is.

No, I have no idea what that means. I guess it was stupid of me to assume you ment what you said instead of using telepathc powers to instinctively know what you wanted to type? And you have the gaul to tell someone else to "grow up"?

Oh... those people :/. Blow in their ear (or something similar) *then* hit them and see what happens.

My I suggest the more practical approach? Don't believe in things which are un-evidenced; and don't accept descriptions untile they are consistant and supported. I believe, for example, in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, even though I have not witnissed it, and no one understands it.

Yes, there are a slew of external answers that come to mind to me as well; and the suggestions made are good. Looking internally, of course relaxation (which adds speed and connects more weight)... learning to drive punches from the ground is useful as well (as are tricks like stomping). There are some tricks from a qi perspective; but I'm guessing if you would understand how to do them from me mentioning them, you would probibly have already figured out their effects

I agree, "wow". While the heel is not indestructable, typically from a fall I would expect the ankle to dislocate, then the shin to break... I don't think I've ever heard of the break actually happening at the heel before.

But what about if that person applying the RNC has squatted and is tucking his head? That's the one I have trouble coming up with a good response to in the time available.

Sorry, can't find a specific word that translates well... closest phrase appears to be "play fighting" or "luta do jogo"

Sparring is "play fighting". Tell me your native language and I'll tranlate the word for you... http://world.altavista.com/

I suppose you've solved the whole "how to throw your head back with your chin down" problem? It depends a great deal on the hold in question and the skill of the holder.... I'm guessing you are referring to something like the rear-naked choke, as opposed to someone just grabbing with his hands (in that case, turn around and beat the **** out of him). The frist good response is to abort the hold before it's in place. You can turn around, or start striking/grabbing, or deconstruct the hold through manipulation... if you have a knife, simply start cutting along the inside of the elbow. If your attacker is not very skilled (IOW, has let you remain standing) then you have a little time to play. Strike at his groin, stomp his foot, reach back for his eyes, kick his shins, break his fingers, tear his ear, fish-hook his lip, etc. If your arracker has better skill; he's going to try to sit you down. Unfortunately, if you've allowed the hold to progress to this point, you don't have a great deal of consious-time left... I don't have any particularly good suggestions for deconstructing a rear-naked choke from a good practitioner once it has gotten to that point... but I'd imagine atrs like BJJ still have olutions... you'd just better perform then quickly.

1. This advice is self-defeating. If one were to take it, then onw would not listen to anything on this site... for example, one would not liten to you telling one not to listen. 2. Many of us are teachers; andmost books are written by instructors as well. That said, I would never rely on a single source for such information; and I don't recommend such a reliance to anyone else. I hope for humanity's sake you are just trolling. Ki is a movie by George Lucas? [sarcasm]Oh yea, we should be trusting medichlorians and an Anime show[/sarcasm]

Why can't you drink salt water if you are dehydrated? The logical fallacy you are faling into is called "appeal to ignorance". Unless you are referring to the casing or insulative material; this is a false premise. But weather you can *use* external sources of qi is not the topic now is it? The question is weather one can exaust one's own qi reserves.

You are the first person on this thread to use the term "combat-ki" and you present it as a reference? To what are you referring?

OK, I see assertion and support... but do they relate? Mirriam webster defines "master" as "skilled or proficient"; ergo your argument's support lacks merit in the English language. Please stop inventing definitions.