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[darkness]

Ouch! blocking roundhouses with hand does not work so well. I done that too.

[Skeptic 2004]

First, a small digression.

He threw a roundhouse kick at me and I stepped back and blocked with an inside middle. He pulled the kicked, but immediately my forearm turned all red and swelled to three times its normal size. He barely hit me, but it swelled anyway.

Well...that's what happens when you step back. If you had moved in it probably wouldn't have hurt as much, and it probably would have hurt him a lot more. If you've ever spun anything in your hands (like a belt...or nunchaku), you've probably noticed that the velocity at the tip is greater than the velocity, say in your palm. Had you moved in you would have reduced the effective radius of his kick, and thus avoided injury.

I only rambled about this because in watching matches I see his happen too often. Rather than moving into your opponent and jamming him, people try to keep their distance and jump back. The people who move in are usually injury free; the people who move back get hurt.

[/digression]

Anyway, I have a story that's already been told, but I'll tell it again. Our instructor was discussing the effectiveness of simultaneous techniques on opposing pressure points. Since pressure points never really work that well on me (they make me feel nauseous at worst, but rarely do they hurt that bad), I called him out on it. He eagerly demonstrated with a two handed shuto to the left side/base of my neck and above my right kidney. He didn't hit me hard at all; he just tapped them....and knocked me out. I collapsed on the ground and was unconscious for about 30 seconds. When I came to he was really worried and completely apologetic; he never anticipated such a reaction. When he had demonstrated on my friend earlier, my friend had just reacted as if he'd been punched. We all had a good laugh at my expense.

[karate kid 1]

HEY GREAT STORIES GUYS I WISH I HAD SOME TO SHARE

[liquidkudzu]

Right after I opened my first school (several years ago), I ran into a student and her boyfriend while shopping. We will call the guy Marcus the Troll (name changed for anonymity). She introduced us, and he asked how long I’d trained in the arts. I said 10 years. He then told me he’d trained for 11 years and therefore was better than me. I didn’t know whether to laugh at the way he was coming off or simply walk away. To call his bluff, I asked which style he practiced and who his teacher was. He stammered for a bit, then claimed he practiced tai chi and kickboxed with that style at tournaments and in his friend’s back yard. He wouldn’t produce a teacher’s name or the name of any tournament that he’d fought in.

The poor girl was mortified at how ridiculous he sounded. To end the conversation, I politely invited him to visit my school before class so he could spar with me and teach the students some tai chi forms. Needless to say, Marcus never showed up

lk

[IcemanSK]

There was a guy I trained with at a kickboxing gym who was short (5'6") & always trying to prove that he really 8 feet tall. (He had huge Harley, was a cop, & alway carried a very large off-duty weapon.)

One day he was sparring in the ring, and although he was wearing head gear, he got knocked out. We had a doctor who trained with us who helped him out of the ring. The fighter (Bob) was now concious (sp?) but he had no idea what he name was or anything else. The Dr. had him sit next to our trainer with instructions to make him aware if anything changes. Within 4-5 minutes of the KO, Bob turns to our trainer & says, "I don't know my name. But I know I'm a cop, & I have a gun!" Kevin's response? (Laughing really hard) "Huh, Doc! Ya wanna come over here!"

He was taken to the hospital with a concussion & came back to the gym a few weeks later. We never let him forget that day.

[Sauzin]

Seikichi Odo was a small 4' 1" man who barely tipped the scales to 80lbs. He lived on Okinwawa, an island that comprises of about 40% US military bases. Odo worked as an air conditioner repair man on base and was always friendly and very nondescript. On one fine rainy day, Odo was walking with a couple of his students on base across an area where several marines were pitching tents in the mud. The mud in Okinwawa consists largely of clay and limestone with coral and it is quite a chore to pitch a tent in it. One young marine was going around the outside of the tent placing spikes in the ground so that two other marines could painstakingly over several strikes, knock each spike in with a large John Henry sized mallet. As Odo and his students were crossing the area Odo accidentally knocked over one of the spikes that had been strategically placed. The marine who was about to hammer it in threw his mallet down and began to yell at Odo, cursing the clumsy old man. Odo relatively apologized saying in broken English "sorry, please, very sorry". The marine demanded that he bend down and place the spike back in it's original position. Odo bend down on one knee and stood the spike back up, then knocked it completely into the ground with one tremendously powerful shoto. The marine gasped and didn't say another word. Odo got up, apologized again, and left with his very amused students.

[younwhagrl]

Well this story has to do with the importance of KIAI...

Well there was this woman and she had taken one women's self defense class..well after the self defense class one night she had to go buy some grocerys well she was walking out of the grocery store and a guy walked up to her with a knife and said "GIVE ME YOUR MONEY" and she said the only thing that she could remember from the self defense class was step into fighting stance and yell kiai..well she did and he ran away...LUV THAT STORY!

[massa]

Well this story has to do with the importance of KIAI...

Well there was this woman and she had taken one women's self defense class..well after the self defense class one night she had to go buy some grocerys well she was walking out of the grocery store and a guy walked up to her with a knife and said "GIVE ME YOUR MONEY" and she said the only thing that she could remember from the self defense class was step into fighting stance and yell kiai..well she did and he ran away...LUV THAT STORY!

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