>> ^phelixian:
apparently he lived and didn't press charges the following day. i hope that is true. that is what the black belt's son is saying on some message board:
http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=88535&page=45
it doesn't change the fact that this is the scariest seen i've seen in a long time, but snuff film is probably not true. attempted snuff film i'd say.


Just because his son said so, doesn't make it true.

apparently he lived and didn't press charges the following day. i hope that is true. that is what the black belt's son is saying on some message board:

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=88535&page=45

it doesn't change the fact that this is the scariest seen i've seen in a long time, but snuff film is probably not true. attempted snuff film i'd say.

That black belt was a pussy. What they did to that man was despicable. Even in street fights, people know when to call the fight, and usually the crowd wants to make sure no one has to be sent to the hospital.

These assholes have probably gone on to have happy, productive lives, with families, jobs, vacations, weddings, and all the other joyous occasions we all want to enjoy in life. I wish I could go back in time to every happy moment those fucktards had in their lives since 1984 and play this video on a projector, just to constantly remind them of what they did (or allowed to happen).

And I know "violence is never the answer", but I wouldn't mind taking on that pussy black belt and teaching him a thing or 2 about a thing or 2. He wouldn't last 5 minutes where I grew up.

^ You should sift that, KnivesOut. Guaranteed #1


As for the black belt "Marine" who decided to go past winning the "match", there's probably about 3 million other black belts -and more than a couple Marines- out there that want to kick your ass. You have no honour.

good news: you reached black belt. Bad news, your eight and will still get the sh*t kicked out of you at school when the other kids gang up 10v1 on you.... prolly due to the belt.

Whatever. I could take him.

This is obvious proof of how the US accels above all other western countries in the martial arts. We have thousands of 8 year old black belts all over the country. You can find them in practically any strip-mall. We have 8yo Ninja black belts, 8yo Kung Fu black belts, 8yo TKD black blets, 8yo Judo black belts... Why, you practically can't walk anywhere near a strip mall without stepping on an 8 year old black belt.

Makes me wonder why I've studied all these years to get my San Dan when I could have just gone to a strip mall when I was 8 and gotten a black belt with a side of french fries. And you know those kids are legit because by the time they're 18 they'll have promoted themselves to 10th Dan and started their own martial art form complete with shoulder patches with tigers on them.

I didn't think you could get a black belt that early? Isn't there like a time restriction working through the ranks?

This stuff is hokus pokus.

But dont kid yourself, Im sure that the black belt in the video is not all hokus pokus.

I have visited schools, and left schools because they show some sort of psychic bullshit.

One thing is true, you do have to believe what you are doing will work. That is called confidence. For instance, I know that when I pull the trigger of a gun it will shoot (in most cases). I tend to believe it will work, the same way I believe a arm bar will hurt.

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>> ^quantumushroom:
Norris = self-made man, millionaire, author, black belt, movie star, author and Total Gym infomercial master. Tears cure cancer.
Huffington = "earned" wealth by spreading her knees for Michael Huffington, and married him knowing he was bisexual.


Which is another way of avoiding altogether the point of their conversation, and the merits of their arguments.

Norris = self-made man, millionaire, author, black belt, movie star, author and Total Gym infomercial master. Tears cure cancer.

Huffington = "earned" wealth by spreading her knees for Michael Huffington, and married him knowing he was bisexual.

Not to nitpick, but even Black Belts are a relatively new phenomenon. The story I heard was that the founder of Judo, Jigoro Kano, was quite blind in his later years, and used lengths of black cotton to tell his senior students apart from the newer ones.

The other story I heard was that you originally only used one belt from the time you took up an art. You were a black belt when your belt was black from dirt and sweat.

Sadly, I know what he is talking about first hand.

Only I was old enough to defend my self.

Laura, there are some situations that a person cannot in any way defend themselves physically, with out the use of a weapon.

A Black belt:

Yudansha is a honor that denotes the martial artists length of training, not necessarily their skill.

I liked this video, but have to disagree with him on one thing.
I don't want to see my government be more responsible for helping to stop domestic violence.
I don't think that's government's place.
I want to see more of the decent men in this world (which I have in recent years learned that there are more of than there are shit-heads) step up together as they find themselves neighbors or friends of men who beat their wives.
I would have loved to see the men peeking from the windows of their cars or houses, the men standing across the street when I was being abused...step up and beat the living daylights out of my ex. It's something men need to do for other men, I say.
Women can't defend themselves the same way men can (basic physiological differences unless of course the woman has a black belt...) and I like the idea of decent men putting indecent men in their place/teaching them some manners.
But that's just me.

While Competition is for the most part shunned by the Aikido community, "Tomiki" Aikido was developed to introduce Aikido to Japanese School systems and to replace existing Judo programs by adapting it to a competitive setting.

Basically, Tomiki Aikido competition is performed with one competitor wielding a wooden dagger (a Tanto), while his opponent attempts to disarm him. Points are scored to the wielder for successful attacks with the dagger, and to the unarmed for performing successful takeaways - the dagger is then placed on the ground and he retreats to neutral territory to await the next attack. Halfway through the round, they switch roles.

As NordlichReiter pointed out, Aikido-ka are trained first and foremost to avoid confrontation. We are trained to diffuse situations with diplomacy to let cooler heads prevail.

Chilax, you would be VERY surprised to see just how effective these techniques are in "street" settings, and as I said before, these Aikidoka are very skilled. The techniques they demonstrate are based on concepts that are centuries old, and have survived the test of time. Not to mention that Aikidoka are trained to take falls and throws with control and grace. Most Yudansha (that is, those who have attained a first-degree black belt or higher, usually requiring 5+ years of dedicated training) gain not only the requisite toughness through ukemi (safe-falling), but the confidence to tap into their knowledge at a moment's notice. Irimi-nage, and Kote-Gaeshi, as well as the perennial hip-throw technique, Koshi-nage, are all swift techniques that use your opponents energy against them while exposing the user to very minimal risk, and Aikidoka are trained to initiate these techniques from a wide variety of attacks.

You can divide basic hand-to-hand attacks into two basic categories: grabs, and strikes. Strikes can be further subdivided into at least three deliveries - from a tsuki, or thrusting attack (like a punch), shomen-uchi (a vertical-motion attack, like a hammer swinging downward), and yokomen-uchi (a horizontal-slashing attack, like a slash with a dagger or sword). Grabs are more numerous: same-side grabs to your wrist, cross-side wrist grabs, both wrists grabbed at the same time, two-hands grabbing one wrist, lapel grabs, chokes, grabs from behind like sleeper-holds... the list goes on. Aikidoka learn the basic techniques, such as Ikkyo, from simple grabs and shomen-uchi strikes in the beginning, and move on the more advanced techniques from stronger attacks as they progress.

You don't start by teaching a white belt hip-throws before they know the basic concepts of ma-ai (literally "distance harmony" or your basic attack range - I'm 6'1", so my ma-ai is going to be wider than someone say 5'5"), the importance of being centered and grounded (you're going to be supporting the weight of your attacker on your hip, if you don't know how to keep your feet and knees, you'll buckle under their weight), or the ukemi to take the fall without injuring yourself.