johnwang wrote:
Your thought?
Trick wrote:A long time ago i read somewhere . That during Japan’s occupation of Korea that Japanese soldiers/Karatekas tried out the “effectiveness”of different strikes and kicks on captured tied up Koreans, much like how they also tried cutting with the sword.....Horrible, and hopefully not a practice that’s going on in today’s world ?
During the Korean war he along with most other young men from his home town were recruited to fight for the south as guerilla fighters not actually associated with the formal army. After the war he was able to relocate to the south and has not seen his family since then.
Shifu Park Chil Sung worked for some time after the war for the South Korean equivalent of the American CIA, training in hand to hand combat.
oragami_itto wrote:So if I'm tracking this argument correctly here...
You're saying that a technique isn't effective unless it's lethal?
johnwang wrote:When Adam Hsu taught me the 7 star preying mantis of the following move, I asked him, "Can you use this move to kill your opponent?" [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXDd99 ... e=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePJrPGkqb8U
johnwang wrote:oragami_itto wrote:So if I'm tracking this argument correctly here...
You're saying that a technique isn't effective unless it's lethal?
If you can knock your opponent out in one strike, your opponent will have no chance to hurt you after that. We all try to develop some dependable finish moves through our life time.
When you
- were young, you can still depend on your endurance.
- get older, you have to end your problem quickly.
So this issue is more important for the older people.
Am I the only person in RSF who feels this way?
johnwang wrote:oragami_itto wrote:So if I'm tracking this argument correctly here...
You're saying that a technique isn't effective unless it's lethal?
If you can knock your opponent out in one strike, your opponent will have no chance to hurt you after that. We all try to develop some dependable finish moves through our life time.
When you
- were young, you can still depend on your endurance.
- get older, you have to end your problem quickly.
So this issue is more important for the older people.
Am I the only person in RSF who feels this way?
oragami_itto wrote:
The goals of my training, in priority order:
1. Avoid conflict
2. Escape conflict
3. End conflict
.
Let's be perfectly honest. We live in the age of the gun. No matter how much you want to put into honing your human weapon, some shithead with a gun and zero training can take you out without a whole lot of effort.
I am also getting a fragmented story from a certain group of people, that they hired a 14 year old to show up at his door, and fired four shots from a .22 caliber pistol. someone i know met the man since he has been released. how the entire trial process was carried out, etc. is not something i know about. what i know of the assassination is in line with what "once ronin" says it to be. that's the only account i've ever heard of in regards to your grandfathers death.
Training consisted of forms, meditation, and iron robe. I punched rock filled bags. I beat my body with a bundle of chopsticks. I kicked trees until my legs were bruised and bleeding. We would apply some of Law Wei Jong's herbs, and I would be kicking trees the next day.
Ng Yim Ming would teach me a move, then send me out in the streets to fight.
If I lost I would have to train twice as hard, so I learned not to lose.
I would join a kung fu school only to defeat it's teacher, then collect twice my money back to leave.
Ng Yim Ming said Hop Gar was a fighting art and must be learned by fighting.
In 1970, Ng Yim Ming left Hong Kong to start a business in San Francisco. I remained in Hong Kong to run the school until I could get a visa from the United States. Ng Yim Ming had a school in San Francisco for about a year and a half. In 1972 he was shot and killed.
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