Favorite JA acting moments

Oh good lord.

off the top of my head, anything in WIAWSNB

I think my favourite JA acting moments default to him crying and my favourite JP acting moments default to him being hardass or evil.

I'm going to have to think long and hard to get outside of that.

Ah, well.

When do we get our 100th episode? I'm messed up because of the writer's strike season and I have lost track. Did it air already? Surely it is still to come. I'm going to have to snoop to see if I can find any party pics.

Made me miss krav something awful too, fighting unarmed against a knife.

I copyedited a book years ago about self-defense, and it said if someone came at you with a knife, the best defense (if there was no other, I guess) was to actually grab the blade and suffer the injury to the hand rather than elsewhere.

That seems like ... more badass than I can imagine being unless my life was really at stake. Is that even a true thing, though? I remember him also saying to go for the eyes, which is just ... ick.

I remember him also saying to go for the eyes, which is just ... ick.

The one quickie self defence lecture thingy that I attended recommended eyes also and I had the same ick reaction. Then I get mad at myself for having a hard time of getting out of victim mode and being willing to do some actual damage to them.

If my math has it right, episode 18 of this season which airs on April 15th. And judging by the title of episode 17, I think my math is right.

I think I would be willing to do a lot of damage if it didn't involve using my bare hands. Um.

Then I think about someone hurting one of the kids and the whole picture changes to me in berserker mode.

was to actually grab the blade and suffer the injury to the hand rather than elsewhere

I'd never do that! It will take them just a moment to disengage and stab you where they wanted, and you're out one hand. Go for the wrist. Wrist on wrist blocking is what we teach in krav. I don't see any advantage to grabbing a blade. It's not like you can wrestle it away, and you'll definitely sustain damage.

Eyes, crook of the throat between the clavicles, testicles, all sorts of soft and squishy places that being muscular can't protect.

I thought it sounded stupid, ita.

Soft and squishy places, check. Also, ::shudder::.

Then I think about someone hurting one of the kids and the whole picture changes to me in berserker mode.

Oh yeah. Cross my kid and I lose any pacifist particle in my being. As Alan Tudyk said in A Knights Tale, "I will fong you!"

I was thinking about the knife thing as well. It would be so hard to grab a blade because it is cutting the tool, your hand, that you would be using to grab it. It would just cut and then be gone and you would be injured. However, I guess people would instinctively hold up their hands and therefore you get defensive wounds.