by klonk on Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:03 am
Funny you should mention umbrella. My teacher's teacher's or whatever, Funakoshi the karate guy, once did exactly that. It's in his memoirs. Intention is related to vision and his umbrella screwed with what they were trying to hit.
This was bare hands, two against one, but if they don't know where the target is, it may bumfluster the average sorts of mugger.
I define internal martial art as unusual muscle recruitment and leave it at that. If my definition is incomplete, at least it is correct so far as it goes.