KickChick Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Has anyone read John Gilbey's book "Secret Fighting Arts of the World" .... sounds like an interesting read. He claims to have traveled the world to find the world's most secretly guarded fighting techniques. What made me think of this was a thread that was posted in another forum about "leaping from treetop to treetop" as in that movie Crouching ....... Some of the legitimate techniques he describes are the Liverpool head butt, the Ganges groin grab, French Savate, and Mexican knife fighting. However, he also describes a Parisian who could project a belch ten feet in the open air and cause a man to faint. He describes a ninja who could take a full force blow across his forearm with a sharp sword without the skin being cut. The ninja could also stop another person's bleeding nose with a loud kiai. Another old master could silently leap to the roof of a house. Real or trickery???
Pacificshore Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Seeing is believing and if I haven't seen it, I ain't believing it!!! Di'DaDeeeee!!!Mind of Mencia
Bon Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Heh, I find that hard to believe. How did he find out about these arts if they're so secret ? In this world where people will do anything to make a dollar, I'm guessing he's writing a product purely to sell the book & make money. It takes sacrifice to be the best.There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
ckdstudent Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 The problem is that he probably received a lot of the stories from word of mouth, which means that they're exaggerated. If not then he's either lying or gullible. ---------Pil SungJimmy B
OldRookie Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 "Project a belch ten feet in the open air and cause a man to faint."LOL....I gotta try that at my next sparring class..I'll just have a sardine,onion & anchovie samich' & don't brush my choppers for a week! Yeah-bring'em on! *1st Dan Oct 2004*"Progress lies not enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.""It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
KickChick Posted June 7, 2002 Author Posted June 7, 2002 LOL .... chili and beans might pose a "double" threat ... if ya catch my drift~~~~
shotochem Posted June 7, 2002 Posted June 7, 2002 Chemical Warfare the next MA!!!! :eek: Pain is only temporary, the memory of that pain lasts a lifetime.
SaiFightsMS Posted June 8, 2002 Posted June 8, 2002 Even though it has been 26 years since that bus ride (a very short one - I got off the next stop) with a bus full of people who had just had kim chee for lunch. Well, burping may be an effective self defense. ROFL
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