Oh, one more thing - nice way to take my post out of context - "Martial arts is supposed to be about body, mind and spirit", which you so politely replied to, finished with "do we teach the skills to kill without the compassion to temper them?" Obviously a rhetorical question, si...

My point was, the guy shot and killed his neighbour for having the gall to step onto his property after said guy shoots said neighbour's dog. This is the kind of thing that can be resolved by calling Animal Control and/or local law enforcement and reporting the neighbour, not shooting him with a sho...

Finally back to take a look at the board, and I've got a few things to say, that is, if my right to free speech isn't compromised. Taking care of a small issue first - sensing a lack of respect for a feminine presence on the board, particularly for one so un-martial as to choose the name of a 1960s ...

Something I learned about in my karate class years ago - drawing a weapon immediately escalates a fight to a whole new level. For instance, if you are walking down the street and some jerk starts shoving you around, and then he pulls a knife, your sense of self-preservation is going to cause you to ...

Maybe I'm overstepping since I just joined this afternoon, but I'm interested in the variety of topics you have on this site, and I like debates. Registering guns (although I support it) has little to do with the outcome of a potentially violent situation - if you're defending your family you're not...

Speaking from experience, there are a lot of real creeps who ride the bus late in the evenings specifically looking for women coming home alone - or even worse, watching where they get off the bus. So my early-warning responses are to vary the routes I use to get home and avoid dimly lit, isolated s...

I heard there are two uechi-ryu schools in the HRM, is anyone here from either one of them? I have been out of martial arts for about a year and half but I would like to come back. I took goju-ryu karate in the past, which I've been told is similar to uechi-ryu. What I liked about goju was its empha...