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I was disappointed in not being able to fight more and have the opportunity to earn  my name, but I would really like to thank Guro Crafty  for the opportunity to play and and both Corey and Dennis for playing with me.  I would particularly like to thank Cindy "Pretty Kitty" Denny for directing me to Company of Mary hospital where they fixed my dislocated shoulder.  I will be out of the sling in a week and will begin rehabilitating my shoulder as soon as I can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfZ9C9vJso&search=pekiti%20blades

"If one side is unaware that an attack is impending it is inconsequential what weapon the other party has if it is remotely lethal. "

This is all I'm saying Michael, I'm not saying that the knife is superior or that the video is evidence of it.  I'm only asking if this is the Tueller drill and making the point that initiative is king in most encounters.

In fact I agree with pretty much everything you have said so far.

Respectfully,

Carlo

is this the drill?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1459052511793821456&q=knife+attack

check out isrmatrix.org the cops/military section. spider guard vs knife to buy time needed to draw.

cool stuff but in the footage you mentioned the gun guy lets the knife guy stab him in the femoral a couple times as he draws his weapon

"Bat man" Guro Crafty?   Well if it was Batman I'd vote for him.  Seriously, Ive been hit with a hardwood stick.  It didn't stop me, I'm with the knife guys.

I love how this question pops up every few months or so.

Thats Candidate Grinning Dog

yeah its me.

Ditto everything Guro Crafty said and, now this is important, find a willing partner.

How much did lacrosse play into your skillset development?

Respecfully,

Carlo

There are a few contributing factors to the level of injury manifested at the gathering.  One is skill level, some of the fighters have become quite adept at not getting hit in vulnerable places.  This is an instance not of shots being pulled but rather shots being effectively defended.

  Also, not everyone walking in is skilled enough to generate enough power under duress with proper body mechanics at a moving and alive target to cause the injuries you mention.  Another factor is relative distance as mentioned before, a man crashing in on you will smother a strike.  If the other man is clearly a better stickfighter, don't let him swing.  The nature of the sticks themselves help mitigate injury, they are rattan not bahi or kamagong.  The physicality of the participants is another factor, skull thickness (TrueDog, i'm looking at you:D),  and sheer size and strength can protect you.  Hitting a 300+ pound man in the arm with a rattan stick will not stop him.  

One of the most important factors is intent, it is in the nature of the event that we walk in there as friends.  We push as hard as we can.  Not hard enough and we are not transformed, too hard and we incpacitate our friend and prevent him from being able to fight by our side when the time comes.  Full contact, yes but it is understood that a full power strike to the back of the head can kill a man.  He is your friend.  Don't take that shot.

Your ability to make moral decisions in a high adrenal state is one of the most important transformational experiences you get out of the gathering.

All that being said, the participants actually do get  a fair bit of injuries.  Broken hands and concussions,  and a collarbone here and there.

Some cry,"this is not real fighting".  Save wrath for your enemies, when playing with friends and brothers, there have to be some limits.  On the other hand, no  one hits you as hard as your brother.  I've never faced anyone on the street as tough as the guys I've "played" with.

-C

http://sayoc.com/vidclips/20040203trailer.wmv

check out the Tuhon Felix Cortes stickboxing stuff.

Thank you for the info haumana2000.  Im saving money for the trip as we speak.

-C

BTW, next time i'll log in, HA.

-C

Stories about what it means to be a person who throws the first punch... and how hard it is to give up.
http://www.thislife.org/ra/98.ram

-C

here's the discussion http://www.fightsport.com/fsport/jsp/message1.jsp?updateHit=yes&fromList1=yes&Id2=0&Id=73125&AuthorId=1

-c

Martial arts expert kills two raiders

Philip Willan in Rome
Monday October 13, 2003
The Guardian

A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning the tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and seriously wounding a third.
The 28-year-old man, known as "the doctor" for his practice of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, managed to seize one of the two knives carried by his assailants and saw off the entire group with the ferocity of his reaction.

Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of force.

The butchery, worthy of a Quentin Tarantino film, began shortly before midnight on Friday when the four men knocked at the apartment of a Chinese hairdresser in the centre of Empoli.

The hairdresser, her assistant and "the doctor", who operated from the same premises, were reportedly overpowered and tied up before the group, all thought to be in their 20s and 30s, ransacked the apartment.

Disappointed by their meagre booty, the attackers allegedly threatened to rape the two women unless they told them where the rest of their money was hidden.

At this point the doctor managed to free himself, seize a knife from one of the aggressors and deliver a series of lethal stab wounds.

Investigators found the body of one man, who had been stabbed in the heart, sprawled on the staircase and another man bleeding to death in the street from a wound to his leg. A third man is recovering in hospital from a punctured lung.

The doctor was found crouching in the entrance to the building with cuts to his shoulder, face and hands.

Investigators are trying to determine whether he inflicted the injuries while defending himself inside the apartment, or hunted down the burglars after they had fled.

Special report
Italy

Great article.  I would hate to fight a guy like Rampage Jackson, much less if he were using "illeagal" moves.   A Profighter with a paradigm shift makes a devastating streetfighter.

-C

On a MMA forum a taekwon do practitioner was defending the high kicks of his art by once again stating that they were designed to kick a man off a horse.  I am not a TKD basher in fact i admire the athleticism of many TKD practitioners but an unarmed man against a man on a horse with a lance.  Let's be realistic.  After the BJJ guys flamed him, I answered with this.

What do you do against a guy with a horse and lance?

TKD answer "Jumpkick the rider"

BJJ answer "Choke the horse"

Kali answer "Eat the Horse"

Muay Thai answer "What's a horse? we use elephants"

Maybe it's the way I look but most people assume I know something without me ever mentioning MA and are genuinely interested in understanding what I do when the subject of martial arts pops up.  I am always patient in explaining and they are often very polite and if they are ignorant, they try not to show it by making bruce lee noises.  Maybe if I weren't a scary looking gorilla and looked more like Lynda I would attract more jerks.

As for women.  I have a tendency to attract women who are into martial arts or even find it downright sexy.  My lovely wife is often my training partner.  So again no problem there.

In fact I only get "YOUR CRAZY" looks from other martial artists when I tell them about the dog brothers.

BTW I know I told you before, but great work at the Gathering Lynda.

-C

Thank you lynda for posting.  Your point of view brings a welcome balance to these forums.

-C