Defending against live knife.
Holy cow. Didn't you tell us somebody inevitably gets cut in a knife fight?
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
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Betsy HP - Mar 21, 2005 12:30:21 pm PST #9229 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Theodosia - Mar 21, 2005 12:32:11 pm PST #9230 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I learned a lot of things from karate, but perhaps the best was the understanding that the part of my brain that works out physical things is nearly non-verbal -- if someone gives me instructions, what I really need is to step through the desired movement at half or quarter speed, and repeatedly, until the kinesthetic brain can think its way through without resorting to words.
That's when I realized I truly wasn't a klutz, I just had a learning disability. t knock wood To this very day, I've never broken a major bone, or for that matter delicater ones like digits and nose, et cetera. Last year when I tried curling and wiped out, the instructors were actually really impressed by how well I'd fallen.
Kalshane - Mar 21, 2005 12:33:21 pm PST #9231 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
You gotta earn the privilege of playing with real knives. And don't think people don't -- the part of a putative black belt test I'm least looking forward to? Defending against live knife.
Yikes, ita! I mean, I understand the whole preparedness aspect of it. If you've successfuly defended against a real one, it's less likely to phase you if someone pulls one on the street, but still. Yow.
brenda m - Mar 21, 2005 12:35:05 pm PST #9232 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Apple store and Lush in one afternoon? Not sure I could handle that.
DavidS - Mar 21, 2005 12:36:41 pm PST #9233 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yikes, ita! I mean, I understand the whole preparedness aspect of it. If you've successfuly defended against a real one, it's less likely to phase you if someone pulls one on the street, but still. Yow.
At least she's not a stick fighter.
Betsy HP - Mar 21, 2005 12:37:21 pm PST #9234 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I could totally fight a stick. Grab it, break it over one knee, and it's paralyzed.
Betsy HP - Mar 21, 2005 12:37:27 pm PST #9235 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
It sucks to be me, la la la la la! Move along, nothing to see here.
tommyrot - Mar 21, 2005 12:38:59 pm PST #9236 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I could totally fight a stick.
Two, even.
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2005 12:39:18 pm PST #9237 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Didn't you tell us somebody inevitably gets cut in a knife fight?
That's what we're told, over and over. However (I'm assuming) this shouldn't be a fight, so much as a sincere attack. Just -- can you do *this* technique against *this* style of attack cleanly?
That having been said, FUCK!!!!
At least she's not a stick fighter.
No, we do stick too. And sticks are always live.
eta:
Grab it, break it over one knee, and it's paralyzed.
Wussy stick, yo.
Betsy HP - Mar 21, 2005 12:42:25 pm PST #9238 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Wussy stick, yo.
That's why I took it on. If it had been mobile acid jello? Forget it, man.