Subj : Re: Rescue Me
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 16:29:59

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Trouble wrote:
>> weirdwolf wrote:
 
>>> Do you mind if I ask you if you have trained in anything in
>>> particular? 
 
>> Its all weapons training I'm afraid, longbow, compund bow, rifle, 
>> shotgun, pistol, muzzle loaders, foil, and greatsword.
 
>  Lucky more like. Tut tut, I would have thought you would have been
>  more of an epee type,(see an insult only fencers understand.)

My first instructor only taught foil, second one only used foils in class 
as well... some of my second class were stage combat too, and so there were 
saber fencers in the group as well. When we wanted big toys, we played with 
big toys; Claymores, Zviehanders etc...

I liked the fact all the foot work and foil work brought out speed I didn't 
know I had.

>  I'm surprised you haven't done more knife work, you can't defend
>  against it if you can't use it. 

That would imply more hand to hand technique than I've been taught

Some of the guys would fight Rapier and Dagger, or Rapier and Main Gauche 
  
>> I saw my stage combat instructor Monday for the first time in 10
>> years... 
 
>> It was in the federal armed guard training I took, that I first found
>> out that standard police handcuffs don't fit my wrists.

>  Definitely going to be more polite to you now..

My instructors reaction on finding this out was he'd just have to shoot 
me... I asked him if he'd ever heard of cable ties, he said he'd STILL 
shoot me...

>  Blergh, I've never seen the interest in TKD as martial art, if you
>  want to learn how to kick and strike boxing and Muay thai are vastly
>  superior. 

This was what I wanted to study, but everybody's knee jerk reaction is I'm 
too big for muay thai.

>  I'm not knocking it as a sport but I've never met a single solitary
>  TKD guy who could really mix it up. 
 
>  My main teachers were both ex-police and had taught the police. In
>  the end they both got pissed off at what you can teach

A living attacker wounded by his intended victim will proceed to sue them 
for damages over here, so yeah, nobody wants to teach life protection.

>> There was a video done on rape victims, and rapists, the best thing
>> you can do is struggle, the rapist wants to get the woman somewhere
>> quiet where he can do his thing, a woman who struggles, or fights is
>> not the victim that he wants.
 
>  yet the police in this country still trot out the old don't struggle
>  and you won't get hurt chestnut. Obviously the people behind this have
>  never dealt with a rape victim.

Despite all the people's beliefs of an armed society being a polite one, 
Law Enforcement NEVER condones people taking matters into their own hands 
as a matter of policy. 

Whether or not this is an extension of government liking to encourage the 
sheep to be passive or not, I dunno.

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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