Hey, ita, does krav teach you how to break up fights? It occurs to me that's a skill I would find handy. The last one I was in was more playful than not (although it definitely looked more serious than it was) but I could really stand to have the ability to make people move away from each other.
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Liese S. - May 18, 2007 9:53:53 am PDT #8094 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Jessica - May 18, 2007 9:55:26 am PDT #8095 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
IcompletelyON, DH just told me that he and Adam Baldwin are the same height (as an aside to IMing me about fall pilots), and now my mental image of AB is all screwy. How can he always look like the tallest person in the cast if he's only 5'7"? It just ain't right.
§ ita § - May 18, 2007 9:57:04 am PDT #8096 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, ita, does krav teach you how to break up fights?
Not primarily, no. That's more of a sideline, and comes with the law enforcement/close body protection training, since it's not self defense. And it's be risky to try and break fights up without knowing how to fight yourself--so it's not taught straight out of the gate.
Kathy A - May 18, 2007 9:57:20 am PDT #8097 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Adam Baldwin is almost as tall as DB, if I remember my Angel correctly, so that can't be right.
amych - May 18, 2007 9:57:46 am PDT #8098 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jess, I think Fone is messing with you. That, or he's planning to surprise you by coming home with a shiny new set of leg implants.
Jessica - May 18, 2007 10:00:09 am PDT #8099 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Adam Baldwin is almost as tall as DB, if I remember my Angel correctly, so that can't be right.
See, apparently he's not. He just looked that way on the show. Or else DB is also not as tall as I'd been assuming.
Liese S. - May 18, 2007 10:00:24 am PDT #8100 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
And it's be risky to try and break fights up without knowing how to fight yourself--so it's not taught straight out of the gate.
Yeah, I know. That's the thing, though, even if I knew how to fight, I don't think I could do it in the context of breaking up a fight. It would involve hitting students, which I think is generally frowned on. Heh. I think I can only go into that situation with the option of getting hurt myself.
But I have no doubt that I'll need to do it, again and again, so it seems that I would be well advised to get some sort of training.
askye - May 18, 2007 10:01:05 am PDT #8101 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I had my picture taken next AB at DCon, he's tall! I'd say he's around the same height as my brother who is 6'3".
Jessica - May 18, 2007 10:03:38 am PDT #8102 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH swears they were eye-to-eye when he was on the Serenity set.
ChiKat - May 18, 2007 10:03:54 am PDT #8103 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Adam Baldwin quoted here (http://www.celebheights.com/s/Adam-Baldwin-268.html)
US Actor from Full Metal Jacket and more recently Firefly and Serenity. Said in 2004 xpose magazine, "I'm 6'4. David Boreananz is a big guy too, maybe 6'1". I am 230 pounds so he's probably 200, 210. He's a formidable presence so it's not like I can dominate him. Plus, they put the camera angles lower so it makes him look bigger."