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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: RE: Navy SEALs and Jeet Kune Do
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 15:25 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- >I heard that they teach military martial-art to Korean Airborn-troopers in ROK
- >It takes 2-3 months to master it, and you should be able to defend against
- >around 10 people, sounds unrealistic?
-
- For how long? Probably until somebody on one side or another slaps a new
- clip into his M-16 (yea for the good guys) or AK-47 (uh oh, Boo Boo). Or
- fixes bayonets. Or interrupts the kumite with a mortar (dulce et decorum).
-
- >Of course, they keep practicing it after the initial training until they get
- >out from the army. Maybe, you can go there and test them. :-)
-
- Boy! yeah, I want to run right out and see if a 20-year-old paratrooper
- can kick my kneecaps off faster than I can dodge. :) More likely, though,
- we can go there and test the other side. The ROK guys probably have a bit
- better motivation than we do.
-
- >It's pretty cold here.
-
- North Dakota, eh? Well, you can always practice H-Bomb-Do (kata only,
- please) in the underground dojang near Minot...
-
- Gloomily,
- --Joe
- "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
-