Subj : Re: Rescue Me To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 22:09:28 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Trouble wrote in news:9KKdnYl8F5XaAr3eRVn-hQ@comcast.com: > 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. fuck em, if you are big enough to box you can try muay thai, one of the biggest guys I ever known was a pro. My mate sparred with him and then proceeded to tell me he had him worried. I couldn't believe it and then he told me "yeah he thought he had killed me!" This is the same chap who told me that he was now at his ideal fighting weight,"to fat to fucking run." The sod then proceded to smack me one while I was laughing. >;-) >> 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. Blergh it's the same over here. For many years I wanted to be a copper for as long as I can remember, never changed my answer when asked. There was then some rioting where I lived and I saw just how hogtied the coppers were. I decided I was psychologically unsuited to be a policeman right about then. >>> 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. Well considering that all the studies show that the criminals go for the weak and passive somewhere along the line thats one hell of a mixed message. A lot of it is covering there own arses, where I use to work there were two remand houses , where they used to shove criminals who weren't remanded in jail. Every couple of months they would get a new batch in and they would try it on, I would literally in some caes throw them out and word would get round and it would go quiet till the next batch came in and of course the cycle would repeat ad infinitum. These guys were on bail and they just didn't give a damn, nobody can tell me that isn't wrong. When the hell did it start that victims get treated worse than the criminals. Hehehehe and you lot all thought I was a really left wing liberal wacko. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .