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During my various rants about sparring, I sometimes imagine the effects of WTF style fighting if applied in the real world. I stumbled across a posting suggested by ethesis in the comments section of 24fightingchickens.com. It was a page simply entitled, “How to spar a Tae Kwon Do Black belt.” It reminded me of a […]

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Once again on Youtube, I found another demo:

It was put together by a couple of folks at The Martial Way, a kempo school in Vermont. The description was:
Two Kempo / Kenpo practitioner-instructors from the Martial Way Self Defense Center in Vermont demonstrate the crushing power and speed of Kempo Karate. Both are full-time Police Officers […]

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There’s a thread going on over at martialtalk addressing the point raised (in various places) that the combinations don’t necessarily need to be trained off of only a step through right hand front punch. Many of us already address the problem in a variety of ways, but the point was raised that perhaps there […]

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Legally blind man teaches alleged intruder a lesson - Yahoo! News
Stories like this give me the warm fuzzies. I think that it brings up several important points. First - visually impaired folks would do well to learn a contact / grappling based self defense system. Second - a knife can be a great equalizer apparently. […]

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