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Reading the top story made me feel sick to the stomach.

I can understand people's reluctance to get involved, here a story from the other side of the world (Australia) that unfortunaly didn't work out any better.

Bikie hunted for city street bloodbath
Email Print Normal font Large font Andrea Petrie and John Silvester
June 19, 2007 - 9:13AM


Wanted... Christopher Wayne Hudson.
 
A HELLS Angels motorcycle gang member who was connected with a gun battle in Queensland last year is wanted over a triple shooting in central Melbourne yesterday that left a father of three dead and two people in a critical condition.
A manhunt was under way last night for Christopher Wayne Hudson, 29, after he allegedly shot three people at point blank range at the corner of William Street and Flinders Lane about 8.15am.
Victorian police released a photograph of the alleged shooter late last night after initially refusing to do so.
Brendan Keilar, 43, a solicitor, was killed in front of horrified rush-hour bystanders after he tried to intervene in an altercation between the gunman and a dancer from a nearby club.
A man, 25, who also tried to intervene, was shot in the upper body and remains in a critical condition.
The other shooting victim, Kara Douglas, 24, a former Sydney travel agent, is believed to be a friend of the woman involved in the original altercation.
Ms Douglas, also known as Kaera, is in a serious but stable condition at Royal Melbourne Hospital with family members by her side.
The shooting happened after the alleged gunman and the two women had been at a nightclub, Barcode, in King Street, and emerged into the morning light.
Closed-circuit television footage captured much of the violence that preceded the shooting.
It shows a man picking up the dancer by the hair, hurling her onto King Street and throwing her suitcase, handbag and make-up kit at her head.
As she tries to get to her feet, she is kicked in the head and appears to fall unconscious.
Minutes later, Ms Douglas is seen walking down the stairs and finding her friend prone on the pavement.
"It was brutal and completely unexpected," a witness said.
Witnesses to the shooting said that when the two men tried to intervene the attacker pulled out a handgun without warning and, coolly and at point blank range, shot the two men in the upper body before shooting Ms Douglas.
Detective Inspector Stephen Clark said the dead solicitor's last act "was one of extreme bravery". "It's a tragic, tragic set of circumstances, and it does appear as though he's been in the wrong place at the wrong time and has gone to the assistance of a female," Inspector Clark said.
As Ms Douglas lay in intensive care yesterday, her mother, Linda, and brothers, James and Richard, kept vigil at the hospital. Mrs Douglas said she feared the gunman "could come after my daughter".
The Queensland gun battle happened at a kickboxing event at the Royal Pines Resort at Southport attended by 1600 people in March last year.
That fight was allegedly sparked by Mr Hudson defecting from the Finks to the Hells Angels and encouraging others to follow. Mr Hudson was shot in the chin and back.
He was also a suspect in NSW for assault and 40 fraud-related offences. He was previously convicted of adopting another man's identity to steal $100,000.
Police believe the simmering feud between the Hells Angels and the Finks relates to control of the growing market for drugs in the Gold Coast nightclub strip.
Mr Hudson is also wanted for questioning over an incident in which shots were fired near police when they tried to pull over a car in Melbourne this month.

with Cameron Houston / AAP

The bikie responsible handed himself in a week later after having his Hells Angels status/tattoo removed and is currently standing trail.

Hi, I am up in Darwin Australia (long way from nowhere), and I would extremely interested if you where to come down to Australia.
Jason

I have a question regarding footwork for everyone, when kicking in a point oriented sparring you can land more successful kicks if you lift your leg before you move in, as timing and distance changes.

Now my question is do you find you can acheive more successful combinations when you:
1. move your leg before the rest of you body
2. body first (lean, kind of fall)
3. together
4. or makes no difference at all
It sounds abit silly but if play with it you will find you tend to move one way or the other.

Thanks,
Jason

The way I understand it is that they are both equal in all areas, I have never fought with a baseball bat, or anything close to real knives, I would go with the baseball bat purely for the longer range factor. If they are in anyway not equal then I would have to side with the knife.

I recently recieved Kali Tudo, I have enjoyed it alot! I had just worked Trigg 101 for myself, along with a step to the outside into my game, yet had not gotten a strong enough understanding to pass them onto someone else.

The information and footwork is so similar to what I have been training (traditional karate) for years that it could be the same. Kali Tudo as with many of your teachings have taken it to the next level. The best way to explain it is that my footwork till now has been like driving, and knowing where you want to finish but not knowing the exact road to take just the direction you need to go. The footwork matrix that you have been teaching is like looking at a road map before you start driving. See it used in real time also makes a huge difference.

It has also saved me alot of mental strain in working out how to counter each.

The professionalism of your products keeps getting better with each release.

Trigg 101 and 102, are they named after the maths formulas, Triggonmentry or some thing else?

A Couple of other thoughts that came out of watching kali tudo:

On the origins of boxing, that it is was a line/scratch in the dirt and each person put one foot on the line and first to fall or move off the line lost. Which is where common phrases such as to step up to the line, put it all on the line and to scratch (eg. sprinter pulling out of a race) come from.

When you are standing toe to toe with some one bare knuckle it requires a different stance in regards to the hands for protection. Which is the reason for the palms facing towards your own face. This is a common defencive position even in modern boxing today, it can also be seen by those covering up while trapped on their back on the ground in the UFC.

Jason

Is there a rough release date for DVD of 'A Dog Brother's Gathering Of The Pack'?

Thanks,
Jason

Hi I am a lefty and i find it much easier to a technique with on both sides of the body if I started the technique on the right, and i find i don't need to train the left any where near as much i can get away with doing half of what i do on my right and be equal if still not better on my left than my right. It is an instant advantage in sparring. As everyone else is basically stuck on one side. even with stuff they have drilled for years.

I have heard that one of the differences in men to women is the amount of connections between each side of the brain. One side controls left the other right. As a result most women do not have a distinction between left and right and often get them confused. kind of explains their ability to multi task, where as men tend to be more focused, tunnel vision, one track mind. Opens the door to all the jokes about guys not being able to find something in front of there face.

Have you found a difference when training women vs men?

I agree with the theory of training complimentary side first, even if it is not to perfection, as this will create a more relaxed and fluid approach later on.