Damon Caskey said:Hilarious as that would be danno, I'd have to decline even if you were serious and nsw25 was interested. I think BAB is a funny concept, but I'm afraid in this part of the world there's a lot of people who don't share my viewpoint. Even a minor association could have real life repercussions for me, up to and including affecting my career. That's also why I won't personally go out of my way to advertise it.
AH, my bad, didn't think about that, I forgot how important your situations are outside of OpenBor.
Damon Caskey said:It's one thing to show off, but the essence of our system is brutal practicality - we learn the flashy techniques as a balance, timing, and speed building tool, and I'm not above using them to zone someone out in contact sparing. But if my old instructor caught me opening with something like that in a real fight, he'd probably jump in and pound me himself!
I lacked discipline when it came to martial arts, my Karate instructor told me to only use it for self defence, first thing I did out the door was use it to beat up a bunch of girls who were a few years older than me, It was the 1980's , Karate kid movie was BIG and I was Daniel San, Karate sufficed until I got into high school and my opponents had testicles.
Damon Caskey said:I have had to handle myself a bit the past, and my tools are much more pedestrian. Mainly knees and elbows mixed with simple take downs. Ended several issues just using my reach to snatch the other guy's ankles and up end him. Few good stomps later and that's that. These days the main dangers I'm likely to meet are frightened bears or illegal pot farmers. Both are both pretty common in the back woods here and I've no intention of slugging it out with either of them. For that and other reasons you'll never see me unarmed.
hahaha I just had this image of you round house kicking a bear who was just tryna protect his illegal stash, elbows and knees are my favourite, they never used to hurt the next day but thats changed with age too, elbows started to hurt my shoulder joints funnily enough and hips started to hurt after I'd use my knees, I was always shocked how easy it was to open up another human, how easy skin rips and bones break I remember several people ending up just feeling like jelly in my hands. the worst experience I ever had was when I was in Y.O (youth offenders) in a prison called stoke heath one fight I don't even remember thats how hard I got hit, guy was half my size and I underestimated him.
Damon Caskey said:Have you ever thought of biking? I recently added that to my hobbies, and man... I went out for a short ride and accidentally wound up two towns over (about 35K one way). You can just lose yourself and it's an awesome low impact cardio tool. Might help you drop some of the weight you were talking about.
DC
I was talking with my partner today about getting some bikes, we are going back to Italy in a couple weeks if our flights aren't cancelled again due to covid, when we return we decided to get some bikes and go on rides together so thanks for the recommendation, defo gonna try it out.