[UA] weapons

[David T. Moraski II]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Greg Stolze wrote:
> I've been studying the martial arts for about ten years.  No brag -- I
> still suck.  But I've met and seen people who don't suck at all, people who
> have practiced jujitsu for 15 or 20 years and used it in their jobs as
> police officers.  No one who seems credible has said that martial skill can
> do anything but make up ground in the threat gap between an armed man and
> an unarmed one.

I've been studying martial arts for a while, and I've found much the
same... no one I've trained with or talked to who's engaged in realistic
training has ever reacted to "The guy pulls a gun on you" with anything
other than "I toss him my wallet."

At the risk of sounding like a bit of a bastard... ask your ninjitsu
friends if they ever spar in class.  If they say anything along the lines
of "No, the techniques we learn are too deadly", start ignoring anything
they say about real combat.

Dave

"Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him."
                                           -- James Tiptree, Jr.



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