Really enjoyed this thread. I about busted my gut laughing over some of the comments. More interesting to me was who took the bait and who didn't.
Okay, let's break it down for the more befuddled.
"Chasing the hole," "dotting the i," "kicking the can," "slicing the pie," "splittin' the cherries" - whatever - are just cutesy names of shooting "techniques" people have developed that may or may not have any real-world defensive benefit.
Take a look at that group on the target in Sean's first post. When you can shoot COM that tightly, and under stress, it doesn't really matter much what the technique is called that got you there. (This is a lot like people debating whether the techniques of Tae Kwon Do are more effective than the techniques of Wing Chung. If you've trained hard and well, then the techniques of either fighting style are sufficient to save your a**).
About Seagal there are many opinions and a few facts. Good or bad actor? The quality of his "action" movies? Those are matters of opinion, and everyone has one.
A few facts are matters of record. He's a Life member of the NRA, an active shooter, and has appeared at NRA-related events, like other progun Hollywood stars ( e.g., Heston, Selleck, Willis). His public statements that I've read were all pro-RKBA, which automatically puts him way ahead of 99% of the left-liberals in the movie biz.
Those who've met or dealt with the guy have differing opinions of his personality. Some say he's a real nice guy, while others claim he's an arrogant a-hole. From some of the publicity, it appears Seagal's worst enemy is himself. Probably this issue can be argued either way, but since I don't deal with him I don't care.
For the benefit of the couch-potato commandos, those who've read about martial arts but never got past a white belt in family-room wrestling, Seagal is - or was - the real deal as far as Aikido goes. I can't speak to the other stuff he says he's trained in. But in his early movies the speed, fluidity and advanced way he blended various Aiki techniques was quite apparent to those who trained in Aikido for any appreciable time (especially a "hard" style).
The problem is, over the years Seagal's put on a lot of weight and has slowed down in the way he enters and executes. And some of his more current stuff (the close-in fight scenes) looks sloppy and staged. This could be due to age (51), injury or not training regularly, or all of these, but it shows in the recent movies, I think.
And given the demographics of action-movies, it was probably a perceptive marketing strategy to start partnering him with Gangsta Rappers.
