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- Subject: Re: Happenstance Weapons
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.211126.41475@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:11:26 GMT
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- |>In article <1993Jan18.185815.1701@netcom.com> dsmythe@netcom.com (Dave Smythe) writes:
- |>>I was just thinking the other day that a properly-held car-key would add
- |>>some real pain to certain Praying Mantis techniques. We do 2-finger
- |>>push-ups to strengthen the fingers for the point-strikes, but a key seems
- |>>to give you a nice extra advantage. Maybe I'll try some car-key push-ups...
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- In my school (which is also Mantis) we were told to look out for
- certain things (particularly as Westerners traveling around Chinatown,
- in NYC). One was to look at hands.
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- I have heard a number of stories of Mantis and Snake Stylists with
- carefully manicured (sharpened is a better word) nails on the index
- and/or middle fingers (razors taped along the edge of a finger is
- another popular variation). Needless to say, it doesn't take a lot of
- imagination to think of several brutal applications.
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- Chris Cowan
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