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- From: gt1274b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dan Puckett)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Combat effectiveness?
- Message-ID: <75941@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:29:16 GMT
- References: <722248782snx@paragon.folly.welly.gen.nz>
- Organization: Screaming Lizard Propulsion Systems
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- richard@paragon.folly.welly.gen.nz (Richard Parry) writes:
- & Now, I want to know what you lot consider the single most effective
- & fighting art. Look at it from all angles - sure, and aikidoka can grab
- & a karateka in an arm lock, and break his arm, but while he's doing that
- & (assuming equal speed on both parts), the karateka can punch him out.
-
- Buy a gun.
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- Learn how to shoot.
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- It'll do ya in most places with most cases.
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- Comparing martial arts is like saying "What tool is best?" The answer
- is another question: "For what purpose?" Different martial arts are
- good for different things. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
- Declaring one to be better than the rest says more about the person
- doing the declaring than it does about the art.
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- Dan Puckett: rugged, revisionist, runcible.
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