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Yea, I never understood the whole learning how to take out unarmed folks, with a blade, either....... until I considered the fact there might be 3 of them with the intention of stomping me into a coma so they can keep my wife and daughter. Then suddenly the idea of stabbing unarmed people made a...

I have recently become a Spyderco fan, after swearing off Benchmades (I have a pile of those). Models that I have recent experience with would include: Paramilitary 2, Para 3, Yojumbo, and Manix 2 XL. I carry the Yojumbo but I also train FMA. If your buddy doesn't, and the knife is really just...

Yea, I train in WC and do not even know the English word for half our techniques. Some of them, sure- slapping hand, grabbing hand but most of them I only know by their Cantonese names. It is weird tho. I always wonder if there is a boxing school, in Asia somewhere, where they try to speak as...

I thought you said you were creating a "Story Based Martial Art". Like - your own system but with a story that explained the origin of the techniques. I clicked this thread expecting something much further out lol

Right? I heard "32 soon" and thought - I would shave my butt, with a lawnmower, if it meant I could be 32 again. OP - I can't really help you, I have no desire to do a jump spinning kick. Just like I have no desire to jump and spin while signing a document. Both seem equally pointless to me. I...

I will definitely keep that in mind, thanks. I always love trying new things (in lifting). I have this theory about "confusing" your muscles. Do the same lifts, same reps, same sets, and just keep adding weight.... eh, yea, you'll make gains BUT I think the body comes to see it as you "job" and...

Well, maybe not full dumpster fire, but definitely it definitely ran a little off the road and kicked up some gravel lol. I lift. I look pretty good for my age 47yr, 5'8", 190#, 32" waist, 15 1/2" bi's, apx 10%BFI. I am no body builder. Truth is - yea, I like not looking like a fat old man at...

JowGaWolf - I appreciate the long, informative post. Sincerely. It obviously comes from a desire to be helpful. You're sharing your experiences and suggesting how they might apply to mine, for the purpose of helping. Noble, really, I respect and appreciate that effort. That said, I do not plan...

You are basing your belief on mask vs breathing problem on a sample of one? I can tell you YES the mask most definitely makes my asthma worse. I have to carry my inhaler on my person, if I am covering both my nose and my mouth (with a mask). If I am not wearing one, I can leave my inhaler in...

At one of my jobs, I am required to wear a mask and social distance. Outside of work, I occasionally wear one (dependingon where I am shopping). Beyond that, I am not doing much. I don't get too close to folks anyway and practice good hygien. I am pretty durable, I will roll the dice. Plus, my...

Actually I simply Googled it the number I got was 79k for 2017 and 22k for 2019. Now couple that with that fact that I personally know people who had to get into a heated argument, with hospital staff, to avoid a "positive" result being put on their child's medical record PRIOR to the results...

2017 there were 79,000 deaths from Flu, in the U.S. 2019 there were 22,000 deaths from Flu, in the U.S. Look it up. Pretty amazing how we just beat Flu eh? I mean that is apx a 70% reduction. Amazing. Wonder how we did that.

(1) Equivalent? No. Comparable? Absolutely. (2) Inherently a bad thing? When done out of fear and blind faith, Absolutely! As for what I follow or do not - I do not recognize a gvt as having any "authority" over how i care for my own safety. If I am not ACTIVELY interfering with someone else...

More important, now? Nope, just as important as it ever was...... at making people FEEL safe. Bottome line - when a virus can be transmitted, during the incubation period, and you are facing exponential spreading, there are really two option: (1) move out into the woods and avoid ever seeing...

That's simple - ENVY! Non Chunners know we are the superior artists. Deep down, they hate themselves and the arts they train because of how inherently inferior they are (them and the art). Some times, they will manage to forget about WC and, for a while the pain and self hatred will ease up...

While I totally agree that maintaining a friendship with someone you KNOW you will periodically try to stomp the poop out of, while they are doing the same to you, is less than responsible decision making.... I have to disagree, IF you are considering the actual mechanics of the situation...

Funny you mention the numbers. A friend of mine was quarantined, until both of his children could be tested. The first child came back negative. The test on the second child wasn't coming back as fast. He got into a huge argument with the hospital because they told him that they were just going...

You mean NOW that the "experts" are no longer saying - do NOT wear a mask, unless you work in the medical field? I am sure I am not the only one who remembers the experts ridiculing folks for wearing them, right? To the poster who asked what qualifications he had to determine KFW was paranoid-...

Worked so far. The sky does not appear to be falling in my county.

Yes but they make us FEEL safe and that is what is really important. Like the pistol in the bottom of a woman's purse that would take her 3 minutes to put into play. Might not actually help BUT it makes her FEEL safer. Plus everyone else is doing it and we wanna feel like part of the herd...

Does the Catholic attend a mass that is given in Latin or English? It matters. Ok, it doesn't and I think this is quite silly BUT I will add something that is an EXTREMELY important element, in actual unarmed COMBAT..... luck. Seriously. Here is a REAL match up between people I personally knew...

I could be mistaken but I interpreted that to mean - they stayed WITH him, close to him, UNTIL they (him and them together) got within the 100ft mark, then he continued on without them.

History will not be kind to us, especially seeing as how the most common type of mask being worn (gaiter) has been shown to cause as much as a 10% INCREASE in the number of droplets while making them smaller and allowing them to travel further which quite possibly HELPS SPREAD the virus (look it...

"Says who"? Really? Wow. As for me getting it (again?) I don't want you to shed tears for me. If you honestly have to ask "says who?", I can honestly say there is nothing I would ever want from you.

While I do not agree with dropping forms, even from the earliest of stages, I do agree there are other things that need focused on IF you are expecting a totally inexperienced person to be decent at fighting within that first year. I was in a different TMA and said to my instructor that as much...

OP - you are a way more patient man than I am. Someone(s) tries to bully me into changing my vote, AT THE PRECINCT, and it would've went Jerry Springer in a blink. I would've blown a gasket, explained in loud colorful terms that they needed to get away from me and IF I saw ONE of them advance or...

I actually like watching it. Even a little more so than pro fighting. You find a good spectrum, in it - from people who have never swung on anyone in their life AND have never trained, to the guys who get into actual (non sporting) fights, to the folks who have some degree of training and...

Same here - My company (i have two jobs) sent all "non essential" employees home to work remotely. I am essential so I still had to come in, since the beginning. There are A LOT of "essentials" and we work in close proximity every day. We take precautions (masks required if within 6', wipe...

Actually, I'm not BUT I fit in right away. Definitely found the rest of "my people".:)

Yes, I am aware of her "order". Like I said, each county is choosing, for itself, whether or not they enforce it.