Posted on 05/24/2013 5:28:39 AM PDT by jmcenanly
see #12, they have a smaller lighter version, plus some other handy items
Thank you so much for taking the time to give me such a helpful, detailed answer. Blessings to you.
Very good advice. Thank you.
Yes, you are right. And I would certainly never put myself in a dangerous situation, and, fortunately, I live in a rather low crime area.
However, these days, one never knows. I just may be in the wrong place when some mohammedan filth decides that attacking me may help him in his jihad.
A guy doing that is well aware of guns so your obvious advice doesn’t really fit, and having disarmed two men with guns in my life, it was something that I was aware of.
awesome
I’m afraid I can’t give you any more “fighting” advice. I can’t predict every situation you might encounter. The world is a dangerous place. I can give you advice on how to defend yourself, and your actions would only cause your attacker to kill you. Your best weapon is always your mind. Be prepared. I recommend Martial Arts training for everyone. I think that the instructor is more important than the style of martial art. Find somebody that you feel comfortable with. And, as my instructor said at the end of every class, “You should go with Christ.”
Blessings to you too. Keep your eye and mind sharp and you’ll be alright.
It is interesting that the three of us, from different cultures and (most probably) different fighting systems, ended up saying basically the same thing.
I’ve never had a system except roughly, “to close” (for me, getting my hands on the man or being body to body fighting within inches and grappling and wrestling, meant that it was over for him), but when I used to fight/train constantly with my friend, the only guy that I ever knew who really knew how to go for the jugular and who trained every day, he used to bring me guys with various levels of belts, including black belts in whatever thing they studied.
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard those guys whining that I “wasn’t doing it right” as I rammed right through whatever defenses they were putting forward.
The guys who had attended those ‘dancing classes’ invariably wanted to do things at arms length, and deliver theatrical kicks and seemed to be used to some sort of interactive routine and choreographed fights, I’m under the impression that in the last 20 years or so, that practical training has become more common and popular than it used to be (thank God).
A few universal concepts about martial arts.
1) Diplomacy and or “running away” are the premier martial arts skills.
2) Anything can be used as a weapon, if you have the imagination to consider it as such.
3) Strength, endurance, (adrenaline and alcohol) take over where skill and experience leave off.
4) Dog fights to win. Coyote fights to kill. Coyote wins.
5) Cheaters never prosper, except for that whole “dying of old age in their own bed” thing.
I believe a quick check of sources will reveal that Sherlock Holmes studied baritsu and NOT ‘bartitsu.’
Seldom are those two not handy, however :)
Very good. Thank you.
“You should go with Christ.”-— Love that!
In the article, it states that Conan Doyle didn’t spell it right. It was simply hand-waving to explain how Holmes escaped from certain death at Reichenbach Falls.
“In the article, it states that Conan Doyle didn’t spell it right.”
Odd, consideing that there’s no such thing as either Baritsu or Bartitsu; Conan Doyle invented the word from whole cloth.
Difficult to see how could have ‘misspelled’ it, therefore.
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