In the one place that I go that the government gets testy about my sidearm, I'm likely to be seen with my big, stiff, 3' metal-shafted black...
Ohhh... great story. Nothing like a good martial attitude. :rolleyes: Ugh! Who has not come across those words? :rolleyes:
Funny. :D Then there's the old Babylon 5 angle on the letter psi. :D [IMG]
Wow... nice wasters! For a crude home-made waster, here is a how-to. I have one of those. I agree. Not pretty, but will take a beating and...
I'm in complete agreement with you there. It's an important point that can always bear mention from time to time.
:love: Wow, that's a very pretty shield! :love: Mine's ugly, but it has to be since I train with it... and it's home made. :eek:
:bang: False. False. False. False. False. False. False. False. False. False. False. False. :bang: That's a cheap, uneducated fabrication...
I've come to buy swords based on word of mouth from people whom I know train hard and put their weapons through a lot of abuse. Too much crap...
A small Bersa .380, extended magazine, total ten frangible JHP rounds. [IMG] My wife won't let me have her little compact .45. :)...
That's what I understand and have experienced from my training. (I also carry regularly.) Knives are nasty. Anybody that carries should practice...
If you're saying that there's no glossary or explicit list (such as Ringeck's explicitly listing the "three wonders"), I believe you're right....
Yes, absolutely. Most of the surviving Western material was for warfare, and assumed one had advance warning and preparation. Because armour...
In addition to the wild rose site with the Fiore manual, the most authoritative single source on the topic that I've found is at the ARMA site....
Yes, that's why I used the :D to show that I was being silly in my comments. I was not trying to criticize. I couldn't comment on that since...
Absolutely. I'm still learning to be aware of this... and get punched in the face a lot more than I should. :bang: (Yes, I'm wearing a mask.)...
In studying combat arts, I've also noticed that there is a huge amount of cross over. The open-hand block that I learned 16 years ago from kung fu...
*Copy*, *paste*, *attribute*. Very nice, succinct summary.
This is true. From what I understand, at least in the German schools, one was expected to be thoroughly versed in ringen (unarmed...
I'd be nice to have RSS feeds for following forums of interest.
I'll have to admit that I didn't understand a good deal of what you wrote. I can appeal to haste, bad planetary alignment, etc... but I won't try...
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