Formosa Neijia

When you get the same comment twice in one week, you know that you’ve hit on something.
This tends to be the most common comeback you hear: “Yeah, that’s okay and all but it ain’t gonna stop a 300 lbs. guy on PCP.”
The problem is that you can shoot down too many things with that comment. [...]

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So before anyone else’s head explodes over me “lowering” myself by actually getting in shape and studying judo, maybe people should first learn about the events that shaped my life.
I’ve had the unfortunate experience of being in 8 fights in my adult life. Here are some interesting facts about them:

7 of the 8 involved standup [...]

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Lots of good stuff out there these days. I was impressed with the fighting style used in the Dark Knight. I thought it looked a lot grittier and more realistic than the Hong Kong crap we’ve been seeing for 30 years now (thanks Bruce, if only you had known). The use of elbows seems smart [...]

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I came across this some time ago, and I still don’t know what to think about it. This is Silat Mubai as taught in Taizhong, Taiwan. As you can see, this is extremely hard-core stuff. Lots of throat-slashing and organ stabbing going on there. This looks like pure military arts being taught to civilians, and [...]

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Rory at the Chiron blog and Steve Perry at Old Enough to Know Better are having a great debate. Any run down I give of the debate will just shortchange each of their positions, but the heart of the debate seems to be more traditional MA training vs. “training for real world violence” (I don’t [...]

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I need some time to write up the Scott Sonnon review. In the meantime, I found this interesting.
Part of my passion for MA is keeping up with the latest trends in crime. If we’re going to be serious about self-defense, then we must take these things into consideration. With that in mind, this article below [...]

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