JerryLove

Never read it. If you drop me an email (jerry at clearsilat.com) I'll see what / who I can find to hook you up with.

Of course opinions are right or wrong. Of course opinions are better or worse than one another. We are not discussing something subjective like "which food tastes best", we are discussing something one can bear wout statistically. Who is still standing at the end f a fight is objective, not subjective. There most certainly is "better" and "worse"... though it's not always "simple"

the conversation may be old and dead, but "some like them, some don't" is hardly the end of story. It's like saying "some millitaries like having aircraft, some don't", there is still a better and a worse option, regardless of personal opinion. OTOH, if you do not want to rehash the conversation, I would recommend not posting on the thread.

The original thread was a discussion of why TKD gets brought up when a discussion of "mcDojos" occurs. A sub-topic (stareted in regards to people claiming TKD schools with an entirely self-defese focus) started on things done in all TKD schools which do not represent a pure combat focus (high kicks). The merits of kicking high subthread got borken off and moved here (since it was in the context of TKD schools). This is a discussion of the choice to kick high, and its applicability to self-defnse. There was a specific assumption that it was "the TKD type of kicks" being discussed.

I don't believe that you adhere to what you say. How much time to you spend using headbuts to attack legs? Never? Why are you not training a part of your arsenal. If you are a jack-of-all trades, you are a master of none... a good specialist will kill you. Same with my headbutt example (break his knee), but it's not where I would recommend training. Further, I don't know about you, but in a fight; my judgement on weather a given technique will succeed is not always correct. One great problem with high-kicks is what happens when they fail. My shin-kick misses, big deal; the results of a kick to the head have already been discussed by me. So you don't feel that you will fight the way you train? Some other set of insttincts that you have never used will magically appear and make you fight in a different manner? Interesting. My school allows you to kick the guy going for the head shot in the leg or groin. It also allowes you to drop him on his head. This is why, though many people have entered my school with a fondenss for ehad shots, no-one has ever kept that fondness. We don't disallow them, we make them painful. My punch to your head is much faster. This was not originally on the Korean Arts forum. I did indeed abandon TKD entirely for another art. It looks nothing like Karate.

Years of working with this stuff. I'm happy to teach it if you are near Tampa florida.

Fighting like an animal isn't very effective. Fighting like a person while trying to exploit some of the strategies of an animal can.

Yes, it certanly can. Usually, the state of your energy effects how it feels. People who work with it a lot are not generally cold (Yin). You may also be pulling rather than pushing, or any of a hundred other reasons for why you are feeling something different. If you were nearby, I would recommend coming in so I can see; or actually coming to our schools Qigong workshop.

I'm in an art where everyhing we do is really predicated on knife work. That said, we have a 16-hour seminar on knife work that's about 20% oration and 80% freesparring. Let me tell you, rolled up magazines will cut and bruise.. I'd hate to do that with even rubber knives. The other way is an introduction of knife concepts, which is really pushed aruond the 18-month mark. mostly it's basic tactical changes, specific concepts around a knife (the need to advance for example), and showing them how a knife works with what they were already practicing.

Quite possibly. If you are reliably getting a sensation from a mental activity, you are either convincing yourself you feel it (less likely since you are not feeling what you expect) or yes, you are feeling the effect of energy. You may indeed be feeling it, just as cold rather than tingling.

I know that his legal guardian can press charges. The police are functionally pencil-pushers in the matter, you can file directly with the court. How, and what charges, and what the criteria are, vary by state. In this state, any physical contact performed intentionally and against one's will, is battery. OTOH, simply an upset parent going after the school (or other children's parent) my also yield results.

Video-camera + police report = battery charges

umm.. everything I mentioned is well past the point of feeling your own energy. Howerver, "cold" is a legetimate feeling for qi. "tingling" is a different one. Ways one can percieve energy (afected both by the energy of the person, and by the person percieving it) Hot Cold Electrical (pulsing) Electrical (tingling) Pressure (like puffs of air) Calm (like the effect of a hot bath without the heat) Or any combination of the above.

I tend to think of "locked up" as "engaged in upright or ground grappling". In that case, you are on the floor as soon as you pick up the kicking foot (having now given up your base). I don't know how you kick while on your face on the floor, but I don't kick verw well from there. I'm guessing you mean something more in line with "squared off". To say that is simple to counter is an understatement. let's take a simple and obvious counter, he leans at his waist so his head/torso goes back and one leg comes up to counter-balance. Not only has his head disappears as a target, you just got kicked in either the one leg you are standing on, or the groin. Other opitions include: stepping forward (going for the takedown), stepping forward (smothering), or simply putting something hard / sharp in your line of attack (I can certainly put my knife / stick / bottle wielding hand up near my own face faster than you can get a foot up there). Never mind the questionable intelligence of trying such a large leg movemenr in a croded (with people or things) place, in restrictive clothing, or on slippery / broken surfaces.... Then there is the issue of both triends and just random people and their effect while you are in such an exposed pose.

Actually I like kicking the head, wha tthe statement is about is kicking high. That said, you need to ask why you should not drop mobility to zero, place all your weight on a single undefended leg, do a partial split (usually groin facing opponent), block your arms with your own leg, and attempt a hit that traverses about 8 feet at an opponent that is 2 feet away? If you have to ask why this is a poor thing for a combat school to emphasize, you have made it quite clear how much of a realistic look you have taken at fighting.

Knife and stick priamarily, though generally whatever comes along. While I have used a real knife in play, or when I was in complete control of the sparring situation, I would never dream of using a pladed weapon in normal sparring. Considering the damage that occurs in unarmed sparring, there would be far too many injuries and deaths. I don't know what a fake stick is, it's rare to spar with sticks, but it's done with a little more deliberation and car than most sparring. I also commonuly use other students in sparing. They make great shields adn good weapons.

I have. I've done no-touch healing work; I've done no-touch and touch combative manipulation, etc.

I believe it was Mr.Lee who said "Kicking someone's head is like punching someone's foot". So, let's ask the obvious leading question; how many of you in "fighting-oriented TKD schools) have functionally abandoned high kicks in favor of low ones?

I suppose I should ask every Jujitsu student that ever lost a match how well Jujitsu works? I suppose boxing doesn't work becuase Tyson's opponent the other night was a boxer and got dropped in under a minute. "so-in-so lost, so everything he thinks works does not" is an absurd and rediculious statement. If you believe that a valid standard you are, to be blunt, a child or an idiot; and if you do not, then you are deliberately lying to garner responses (trolling) BTW, who here said a pressure point fighter would walk through a UFC? I must have missed that assertion.

How much pressure can you apply with no touch?

I'd add "opponents taht want to win, multiple attackers, fighting with weapons, fighting against weapons" among others. My old TKD Dojang had "defence against a knife"... I was talking with the saubaunim after I started Silat.. I did some really basic knife work in the air. He didn't even think he had a defensive response to it. What about Randori and weapons work? A: It's popular. B: It's largely impractical as generally taught. IME more schools that you realize think they teach good self-defense but train in a very unrealistic manner.

Yes

Actually, much of the mental training I primarily works on helping you release testesoerone, adreneline, and endorphines. That said, there is a relatively finite amount of adreneline in your body. When you enter anaphalactic shock, your body pumps out adreneline to counter the effect of hystimines. the problem is, your body runs out. The adreneline injection that is given to counter an allergic reaction is an order of magnetude more than your body has to offer.

Are there really this many of you who would do anything but dismiss this as childhood fantasy? That's really kinda scary. Still, perhaps it means this warrents a specific address. Not only would I suspect liver and kidney failure from such an act (adreneline is toxix), and a mild insanity (3 days no sleep is near when the hallucinations start) but premature heart failure as well. Further, I generally doubt your claim, about the only way to do that is through drugs. (a rush that is, some level of adreneline is always present). I do. Adreneline is released from a gland in your brain, it dialated blood vessels, increases heart and resperation rates, and triggers the release of endorphins. It leaves your body through metabolization, not through pores. All "closing your pores" would do is cause heat exaustian and faster acidosis from an inability to sweat. This appears to be a duscission on adreneline.. that's not Ki. Your bodey generates an electrical charge (that's how nerves work), but that's not Ki either... what experiment are you referring to? Is anyone here an alien monkey-boy from the planet Vageeta? If not, it's a little silly you thinking you can become "super alien monkey-boy from planet Vageeta". You are solving a non-existant problem. The gas is being consumed by the engine and you are worried about keeping the doors closed in order to never run out of fuel. It's not even a remote picture of how the adrenial system functions. DBZ is as realistic as superman... and you are not from Krypton either.

I would say you are extremely gullabel.. but I think (post 2?) you are just trolling.