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How do you prepare for the stress of a real self-defense situation? @Swift We were addressing the point that "If you are at the stage of a physical confrontation [...] you have already failed as a martial artist." |
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Feb 2 |
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Do shock knives make a good 'training' alternative to real knives for knife fighting sparring? We used to use pens (normal ballpoint pens, caps in place). Worked rather well. |
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Feb 2 |
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Do ninja follow the bushido? Fixed grammar (treating "ninja" as the plural). |
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Feb 2 |
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Rule 1: Cardio. What exercises are worth doing to increase cardiovascular fitness? Making the title clearer. |
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Feb 2 |
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Rule 1: Cardio. What exercises are worth doing to increase cardiovascular fitness? In my mind there are still too many questions, independent of the topicality of the theme. |
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Feb 2 |
asked | Going up on the ball of the foot for a front snap kick |
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Feb 2 |
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Are there legal ramifications to being a trained martial artist? Yeah, the fact that he had a gun and it was in your home frequently–though not always–makes it a "lethal force warranted" situation under law, which simplifies things significantly for force short of lethal. |
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Feb 2 |
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What martial notation systems exist for describing techniques in writing? If you do play with it and it works well, let me know how it turns out ^_^ I'd be interested to see. |
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Feb 1 |
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Are there legal ramifications to being a trained martial artist? The basic rule in the US is that "A person may [...] use physical force upon another person when and to the extent he reasonably believes such to be necessary to defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by such other person" with a few added caveats and conditions. Very similar. |
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Feb 1 |
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Feb 1 |
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Feb 1 |
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How do you prepare for the stress of a real self-defense situation? Agreeing with GrandmasterB: I think there is a confusion of different types of confrontation that can occur and what you can realistically do to avoid them. There's a difference between a "monkey dance" (which is a mutual engagement), other social violence dynamics (sometimes mutual, sometimes avoidable but not trivially so, etc), and what happens with a predator who has specifically isolated you in a situation you aren't realistically always going to be able to avoid (e.g., in an apartment alone). |
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Feb 1 |
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Is practising techniques on both the left and right sides beneficial or detrimental to martial development? This is partly a difference in large weapon training versus hand-to-hand or small weapon training. With large weapons you tend to focus heavily on one side, since switching is cumbersome. The angles also change more dramatically when the opponent switches hands, so you tend to focus on one direction. Meanwhile, with a small weapon or with hand-to-hand things can be a little more fluid and the angles don't change quite as dramatically. |
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Feb 1 |
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How do you prepare for the stress of a real self-defense situation? deleted 1 characters in body |
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Feb 1 |
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How do you prepare for the stress of a real self-defense situation? edited tags |
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Feb 1 |
answered | How do you prepare for the stress of a real self-defense situation? |
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Feb 1 |
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Is aikido a good addition to Karate? Or shoud I go for jiu-jitsu? edited tags |
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Feb 1 |
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What characteristics should I look for in a sensei? edited tags |
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Feb 1 |
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Are chi-sao-style drills found anywhere other than in Wing Chun? We did a variation of it in my tantojutsu class (derived from aikijujutsu) as well. |
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Feb 1 |
answered | Which martial arts focus on self defense? |
