That's intense. Very brutal. We have one person that teaches Muay Thai at my school and he kicks those bags so hard. He could easily kick a door down.
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Originally posted by Evogen
im a muay thai kick boxer.. start competition in a month
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That's intense. Very brutal. We have one person that teaches Muay Thai at my school and he kicks those bags so hard. He could easily kick a door down.
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Originally posted by Evogen
im a muay thai kick boxer.. start competition in a month
1st Dan Black belt in Tae Kwon Do over here.
I'm working on creating a Martial Arts style too. It has to do with more defensive techniques, though.
in a parking lot a boxer can headbutt all he wants... but he wouldn't need to because it only takes one punch... and not a concussion.Quote:
Originally posted by Dangeruss
Boxing? shyeahhh right. Any fighting style where you're not allowed to use any part of your body except your hands is bound to be limited at best. Can you headbutt in a boxing match? yeah, didn't think so.
nah, headbutting things makes you smarter. Proven fact.
and in a parking lot, someone who knows karate could kick a boxer before the boxer could punch him, and do pressure-point attacks at close range if he's quick to close the distance.
it takes less time to move a fist than it does a leg. i'm simply saying that boxing is more practical to learn and use in a fight.Quote:
Originally posted by Dangeruss
nah, headbutting things makes you smarter. Proven fact.
and in a parking lot, someone who knows karate could kick a boxer before the boxer could punch him, and do pressure-point attacks at close range if he's quick to close the distance.
well a gun is more practical, easier to learn, and more useful than either karate or boxing.
But only at a certain distance. It's estimated that, assuming it's holstered, in the time it took to draw it, aim, and fire, a person could potentially cover up to 20 feet. Granted that person would have to be fast, but still. A gun's good if your attacker is not up-close.Quote:
Originally posted by Dangeruss
well a gun is more practical, easier to learn, and more useful than either karate or boxing.
heh, just put some high-explosive mines on his way...Quote:
Originally posted by Amethyst Star
But only at a certain distance. *It's estimated that, assuming it's holstered, in the time it took to draw it, aim, and fire, a person could potentially cover up to 20 feet. *Granted that person would have to be fast, but still. *A gun's good if your attacker is not up-close.
ehhh I'm not sure I believe that. Having a gun doesn't prevent you from engaging in hand-to-hand combat, but not having one certainly keeps you from engaging in ranged combat :P Plus, if you have the gun drawn, it's a well-known fact that they're just as effective at close range... (looks for the smiley blowing his brains out with a gun, can't find it)
A gun does carry the weight of the possibility of convition of murder, provided you kill an unarmed man in a fight. By the time you've taken enough injury to justify killing him, he'll have probably disarmed you, anyway, and you're stuck with no fighting skill because all you did was carry a gun around.
Being a point blank range, you'd still be facing tough odds, unless you planned to shoot first and ask questions later. If your tactic is to aim the gun at the assailant, point blank, and hope he throws up his hands and surrenders, it's important to remember that it's easier than it looks to get clear of the barrel before the attacker reacts by firing the first shot, and take control of the person's wrist, especially for a martial artist. After that, the person with the gun is going to have to struggle with anticipating what the martial artist is going to do because, without having full control of the weapon, at that close of range, he stands the very good chance of shooting himself in a struggle.
A gun is the more effective killer, when in a life threatening situation, but If you're planning to shoot someone in a street fight, you'd better be prepared to take whatever comes along with that decision.
I don't take any martial arts now, but i have become interested in Aikido, The art of using your opponets force against them.
Yeah. This is a biggie. Now, I'm not ENTIRELY sure, but, from what I can remember from my crim law class last year, in NZ, the law takes the use of weapons in self-defence VERY carefully.Quote:
Originally posted by Oneironaut
A gun is the more effective killer, when in a life threatening situation, but If you're planning to shoot someone in a street fight, you'd better be prepared to take whatever comes along with that decision.
For instance, if you're facing an unarmed person, even if they're bigger and stronger than you, AND have martial arts training which is KNOWN to you, IF you use a weapon to defend yourself, even if it's only a knife, and the situation results in their death or injury, the defence of self defence has a good chance of failing.
I THINK the law is somewhat different in the States, but yeah... use of weapons in self-defence results in a drastically increased chance of liability.
As for guns?
I dunno. In New Zealand, gun use ISNT very prevalent. I don't know a single person who owns a gun. Only very occaisionally do we hear of any gun-related crime such as murder, and when we do, it's big, BIG news. Gun violence is pretty non-existant down here. Our gun laws are very restrictive. Like... even the GANGS down here don't carry fire-arms. Not that we actually have many gangs. Black Power, the Mongrel Mob, Headhunters... actually, from memory, those are the only main ones, those three. But yeah... most gang violence, to my knowledge, DOESNT involve firearms, and I think NZ is a lot better for our restrictive gun laws and the very low availability of firearms...
I wish I could say it was like that, over here. I have every guy's usual, childish fascination with guns, and I can definitely shoot, but I don't like having the feeling that I have to get one. But, shit, especially after that "deadly force" law that was passed, allowing you to use deadly force when- and wherever you "feel your life is being threatened," Florida isn't getting any safer.Quote:
Originally posted by The Blue Meanie
I think NZ is a lot better for our restrictive gun laws and the very low availability of firearms...
Yeah. Well, the thing is, America's never gonna be like NZ with respect to guns, and it never can. NZ has NEVER had a very big gun culture, and there's never really been a great many guns in circulation.Quote:
Originally posted by Oneironaut
I wish I could say it was like that, over here. I have every guy's usual, childish fascination with guns, and I can definitely shoot, but I don't like having the feeling that I have to get one. But, shit, especially after that "deadly force" law that was passed, allowing you to use deadly force when- and wherever you "feel your life is being threatened," Florida isn't getting any safer.
America on the other hand, does have a big gun culture and does have a large, nay MASSIVE, number of firearms in circulation. Because of this, even if the governemt WERE to enact the same laws as currently exist in NZ and other similar countries, it'd be ineffective. It would be practically impossible to remove guns from circulation... there's so many out there, you just can't do it.
I'm afraid that it's never going to be like that in the US. There's always going to be a huge number of guns in curculation, and there's always going to be a phenomenally high level of gun violence. I wish I could be an optimist on this one, but... I just find myself unable to come to any other conclusion.
Kung Fu has no black belt...Quote:
Originally posted by InTheMoment
Third degree black belt in Kunt Fu.
In some parts of the world I'm known as the Nookie Ninja. :ninja:
http://www.wahlum.com/
10th level 2B Rank @ present...
Somehow, I don't think "Kunt" was a typo, Awaken4e1. :chuckle:Quote:
Originally posted by Awaken4e1
Kung Fu has no black belt...
:doh:Quote:
Originally posted by Oneironaut
Somehow, I don't think "Kunt" was a typo, Awaken4e1. :chuckle:
a well-armed populace is the best defence against tyranny, my friends.
True,Quote:
Originally posted by Dangeruss
a well-armed populace is the best defence against tyranny, my friends.
here's what your government has in store for us.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/Northwoods.html
so many words, what do they all mean????
oh and I heard today that fully automatic weapons are no longer illegal in the US due to some law expiring? Any truth to that?
Thanks, man. I've been looking for more credible information on Northwoods. Nice link. :goodjob2:Quote:
Originally posted by Awaken4e1
True,
here's what your government has in store for us.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/Northwoods.html
I would love to play capoeira in a lucid dream, to get all that creativity flowing. Since capoeira is so much improvisation it might be a good thing to try it out in a LD. It might improve my game in real life as well. :D
I think Capoeira would be an excellent style to practice in dreams. (It's also one of my favorite styles and I'd love to learn it, but as of now I don't have the flexibility for it :( ) But anyway, it focuses more on grace and smooth transitions than power and solidity. There's a plus and minus to that though, I'd think, when it comes to practicing in your dreams. The minus would be that you can't take into account exact waking-world physics, so it would be much easier to do some of the flashier, higher-risk moves while dreaming, and they may disrupt the way you percieve doing it in waking life, but if you moderate between the two practices, I don't think it should be that much a problem.Quote:
Originally posted by Cabeleira
I would love to play capoeira in a lucid dream, to get all that creativity flowing. Since capoeira is so much improvisation it might be a good thing to try it out in a LD. It might improve my game in real life as well. :D
The plus side is that most of the high-risk flips and spins are founded upon the confidence that you are going to complete the rotations required for the move, much like, say, breakdancing and acrobatics. You have to go into the moves confidently and casually if you're going to be consistent and I think practicing the acrobatic moves in dreams will definitely help build that confidence.
And....yeah...Capoeira kicks ass....just in case I forgot to mention it. :putemuppunk:
Sadly i no longer play capoeira cause i broke my leg twice playing capoeira and don't want to risk further injury my nickname in capoeira was "sonador" ("dreamer" ) because my teacher had never previously encountered someone who would on a regular basis relate their dreams like i do, now I only play capoeira in my dreams, sad but true