New excuse for robberies:" This is for Trayvon"

Good stuff. I didn't last long in TKD before I found TSD. The part about not kicking the legs or punching the face was already nonsense to me by then, though I acknowledge there are several "styles" of TKD.

I was happy to leave the "pajama" styles behind when I found JKD.

For the katana roll, I'm thinking it's best to not be fat for that. Wouldn't want a (belly fat) roll to come up and circle the blade.

 

No, you can't be overweight and hope to get out of the way of the katana!

The problem with the Korean arts is always that it's become about business and making $$ with the schools here in the states. When I meet someone who has studied their lives in TKD, I am almost never impressed - with the skills or the person. However, go to Korea and see the Korean special forces train in it, and it's a whole different universe.

 

Is that stuff too technical? At the other end of a punch/knife/gunhand is a neck, no? get close, get control of the balance, send the guy to the ground, if you can guide the back of his head to pavement it buys you time, no? If he's down and you are up stomp his throat and run like hell to get away from his buddies [they always come with buddies, no?]

 

The best thing you can do for yourself and family is to move if your neighborhood is classified as "racially diverse" as per the article.

I prefer not diverse at all.

 

You've obviously never been attacked by a serious threat.

You can either rely on variables of chance, or you can train to master these variables and understand how to perform under varying circumstances. Ie, in an alley, a bathroom, an open street, with multiple attackers, against one individual, in a bar, with a broken bottle, or knife, on the ground, if you're being choked, etc.

All of these variables call for a different approach. Or, you can say I don't need training, I'll hope I'm stronger/faster/smarter than the person attacking me. Personally, I'll practice all sorts of scenarios until my body aches, so that when I have to perform, I don't even think.

 

Even so, the "loose" technique you describe here should be practiced. Do you practice it?

 

Well played sir.

 

No no no. You misunderstood him from his misspelling.

He's a Marshal in the Communist club he belongs to.

And, he is an artist having taken up the painting of Canadian pastoral scenes.

Therefore, he's a 'marshal artist.'

 

Long story short, I'm shocked we even reply to the lying little son of a bitch ricter.