A knee to the groin is better than a kick. You have better balance. I've heard.

Depends on circumstance. You can kick someone in the groin and be outside their arm range. If you're going to knee them, unless you're performing a flying knee you're within arm range--you want those neutralised or mitigated, because it's really easy from that position to end up on the ground, and on the bottom to boot.

You have to be close to punch someone in the nuts, but your feet can be dedicated to moving you in and out quickly, whereas with a knee you have to get there, make sure you're in a good stance for power (which isn't always the first stance you end up in, deliver the blow, recover your stance, and get out.

This conversation makes me think about my own engagement ring, which was my grandmother's, so it's an old, mine cut diamond. It's small and pretty and I love it because it made my mother happy to give it to me.

I never really had a thing about diamonds either for or against. I like other precious gems just as much as diamonds, but I like diamonds too. But I definitely prefer older settings.

True. I'm thinking if I'm kicking or punching, I'm already in his clutches and trying to get free.

I love my great-grandmother's ring. It's a european cut diamond in a platinum art deco setting with hearts and four leaf clovers.

Fucking gorgeous colour.

I'm thinking if I'm kicking or punching, I'm already in his clutches and trying to get free.

It's hard to kick someone who already has you in their clutches, though. Unless they're a lot taller than you. A lot. And/or you're flexible.

The sapphire is beautiful.

I avoid diamonds b/c I don't want to support DeBeers, not to mention the blood diamond trade, but I have no idea if other gem industries are similarly affected. Anyone know? Or even better, have sources?

There are some things you just learn from the culture around you, you know? Like, I know the difference between a morning coat and a tuxedo jacket

Now I would have said that the difference between morning coat and tuxedo jacket is much more esoteric knowledge than the difference between wedding and engagement rings. That said, I am hard put to come up with a male gendered equivalent. Maybe the difference between a washer and a gasket?

Maybe the difference between a washer and a gasket?

Many of the things under the hood of a car or that happen on a football field.

Though I'd think knowing engagement and weddings were different might be a big tipoff...

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This is my second favorite stone and I wear one almost every day.

It's hard to kick someone who already has you in their clutches, though. Unless they're a lot taller than you. A lot. And/or you're flexible.

Which is why I would use the knee. I wasn't very good at giving full context. I can't imagine kicking or punching, when running is an option. So I was imagining that someone already had me by my upper arms (I don't know why), and a knee to the groin felt more forceful to me than a foot to the groin, even if I could pull back, a little. In truth, I've only ever applied a knee to the groin. I wasn't standing though, and neither was he. It did work (and I was grateful).