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.
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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.
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.
Apple store and Lush in one afternoon? Not sure I could handle that.
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.
I could totally fight a stick. Grab it, break it over one knee, and it's paralyzed.
It sucks to be me, la la la la la! Move along, nothing to see here.
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.
Wussy stick, yo.
That's why I took it on. If it had been mobile acid jello? Forget it, man.
Betsy. Nutty (in the cheetahskin gloves). Sturdy stick. Squash court.
Three persons/object enter, one person/object leaves.
WHO/WHAT SHALL IT BE?
