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- From: snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt - K31)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Fighting against animals?
- Keywords: Yippee
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.204043.5571@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:40:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: relay.1993Jan26.204043.5571
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- Say what you will but I think the soccer style kick works well enough for
- rats..... ohhhhhh noooooooooo take cover :-)
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- Per animals in general, I have been working with one handed short swords
- recently 18 - 30". My instructor has told me that the high guard
- postion is excellent for sword on sword. The low guard, is valuable when
- facing an oponent who is on lower terrain (somehow I can't help thinking
- about erol flyn type movies when then jump up on tables) because you need
- a good low guard or lose your knees.
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- The middle guard though has advantage for facing wild animals incl tigers
- (Koreans talk about tigers a lot!). You can cut/chop down, but just as
- important, if you have missed (or have multiple animals) and the blade is
- at the bottom stoke, you still have a lot of technique that can be
- applied on the upstroke including stike to paws or bottom of throat if they
- are trying to jump up on you. My instructor doesn't like my MA dog BTW
- so I always have to hide him when we train :-)
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- Dogs, did someone say dog? I'll tell you what is NOT a good idea, get on
- all fours and try to bite them!
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