My head just exploded

[mbt2001]

"Even when called out by a single foe, remain on guard, for a host of enemies always surround you." Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace

It is incredibly ignorant to assume that martial arts can do anything beyond help you to understand the nature of conflict. No one wins a fight and, as you rightly pointed out, the "city" has animals of it's own. In Japan and China, martial artists devoted their lives to their craft. Daily practice, meditation, excercise, again and again. Did they go to war emtpy handed?? No, they didn't.

 

[Cliff47]

I'm sorry, my head just imploded. Glad I got past Monday...

 

[Odd Job]

Of course, if the assailant takes your gun away, then he's in a bad spot because he has the gun and you don't. You'll just take it away from him.

I just laughed like a zebra on novacaine. Thanks for that.

 

[Macpherson]

What's good is training that incorporates martial arts and firearms. This video has some good examples of using fighting techniques to buy time to draw a firearms, or to counter someone with a knife/firearm. I admire Krav Maga because of its simplicity and practicality; there's nothing fancy or stylish about it, but it gets the job done.

 

[El Tejon]

From my many years in martial arts, I know this type, don't. They are deceiving themselves so they are feel better about the time they are spending in their art or do not want to "open that door". If you study martial arts then you know about the Boxer Rebellion and what happens when people deceive themselves.

At 38, martial arts are for fellowship and defeating myself (e.g. physical fitness). The only fighting I am doing is fighting the "desk and telephone warrior" that I have become and that is the only fight I am looking for.

 

[mbt2001]

People see Martial Power / Skill as an end. If I take Karate long enough, I will have "power". They fail to grasp (and in doing so never reach any kind of enlightenment) that in WANTING to ACHIEVE our goal, we completely miss it.

It is only when we quit WANTING that we can gain inner peace and insight.

"To do one thing, at the expense of all things is to lose the spirt of the thing itself." The book of 5 rings

Sorry to sound so fluffy, but anyone that is taking martial arts to "learn how to fight" is wasting their time and money. Take that idiot on the link doing Krav Maga... He is leading with his head, has no guard at all and is purposefully (it seems) taking the arc from his punches and elbows.

He is "learning how to fight".... I then refer to my other post.... You have to understand the nature of conflict before you can win

So... errrr.... I agree with El T. As usual.

 

[Orthonym]

What Halftime and El Tejon said. I'm getting on in years and was never all that big and mean to start with.

Sorry, Mr. Bad Guy, I cain't afford to spar with you, I'm just a little guy who's also old; I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you.

 

[.cheese.]

If your head just exploded, how are you able to type?

I'm calling shenanigans on your claim. Provide verifiable proof that your head exploded, and we'll take it from there.

 

[neviander]

Nobody has mentioned it yet, so I will.

"Yo homie, is that my briefcase?" *push gun away, pull your own* BAM!, BAM! *turn to other attacker* BAM!, BAM!..BAM! The last one he put in the already downed attackers head was probably unnecessary, but you see my point.

That little bit of gun-fu that Tom Cruise portrayed was totally plausible.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Tell him to meet you in your backyard wearing pads.

Show up with a paintball gun.

See where things go from there...

 

[Deanimator]

Shooting is a martial art.

Teppojutsu and or hojutsu.

 

[falkon]

he probably got his CCW denied or revoked.

 

[h-word]

I have a friend who questioned why I carried a gun for self defense. She thought I should learn Kung Foo...

 

[Realbigo]

Now this is interesting. I actually just returned my High School Tan Soo Do teacher's 1911 after replacing a couple of springs and the firing pin for him. He asked me to do it because he's so busy these days teaching disarms.

 

[conw]

I have to respectfully disagree with everyone who said that his "job security" would be his objective here.

More like "self esteem." He's just an absolutist and can't stand to be wrong.

Aside from that, learning martial arts AND basic handgun operation is much more effective than one or the other...duh...

There are probably some neighborhoods where the locals could beat the most bad-assed Delta/SEAL/Ranger/Recon guy to within an inch of his life without even dropping the ash off their cigarette.

IMO no one is good enough to fight in an uncontrolled setting without really NEEDING to fight...hell, yes, there are ghettos and such where a "trained" person, even trained for war, will get killed. It doesn't necessarily take training to defeat training, it just takes training to stay consistently alive while completing the task at hand...then getting the hell out of there. All you have to do to kill someone or beat them is be crazy and not care. You don't want to be around crazy people who don't care, no matter who you may be.