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There is an extremely respected US unarmed combat teacher, Jack Perkins, who would agree with you. His site (the not very well named http://www.attackproof.com - good site though, and said to be excellent tuition) has a video of his countering a BJJ style grapple. I think the first 2 seconds consis...

And...totally unrelated: Considering the extreme physical realism in computer games novadays, are anyone but me excited about the possibility of Online Virtual Reality with swords sometime in the future? Facing other humans with swords in a digital unverse where steel actually acts like steel? I ca...

There were historical blades from the 15th century with screw on pommels. One technique in the armoured texts describes unsrewing your pommel and throwing it at the other guy as you close. :shock: Is there any good way to test this? It seems at first glance like the fechtbuch equivalent of some of ...

What accommodations would be available down there? I might be able to take a Greyhound down during that timeframe. If I could possibly camp out in someone's backyard, it would be a miracle for me. I will have limited space at my house. My wife has already agreed to turn over the first floor of our ...

What accommodations would be available down there? I might be able to take a Greyhound down during that timeframe.

If I could possibly camp out in someone's backyard, it would be a miracle for me.

From my extremely limited vantage point (I have not yet even attended a 1.0 seminar due to location, time, and money constraints, so keep that in mind), it seems to me that one of the factors in this problem is thus: People like to have titles. It's as simple as that. We are all students of the swor...

While we're on a similar topic, can anyone answer a question for me? I have a copy of Wallerstein, and would like to work on adding some of the unarmed techniques there to my mediocre wrestling repertoire. Is it frowned upon for an ARMA member to work on this sort of thing with non-members (there is...

Chris, that sounds great, although actually becoming a member can be a tough first step (or at least a lengthy one). Would your friend be interested in dagger and wrestling experimentation as well? Those two have interested me a lot lately for reasons mostly related to their current-day practicality...

Nathan Dexter wrote:Now your making me wish I was there even more.

Hear, hear. But nonetheless it's good to know everything went well.

Excellent. Get ahold of me on AIM, if you frequent it, and we can plan something out.

And you're less likely to end up in that inverted ground fighting position with another guy in ARMA. Wow, like that one hasn't been done before. ;) Christopher, if you're interested in another clueless student of the sword joining you, definitely get ahold of me. I'm afraid I don't have a car, but ...

I have next to no experience, but I attend SUNY Albany, for what it's worth. I had been intending to start working on boxing and wrestling this fall for my self-imposed "combat general education requirement," but if an ARMA group were to appear in the area all MMA bets would be off (time w...

Oh, the ninja might beat samurai. But the Vikings' pirate allies would drink the ninja under the table as a warm-up for their celebratory carouse with said Vikings!

...yes, that's a pretty silly argument.

Hi Eric, ever tried to cut through multple layers of linen and wool? Europeans clothing was made of layers of these type of fabrics, plus sometimes they were stuffed like a gambeson. More layers to get through to find flesh. Plus on the streets of America today when someone attacks you with a knife...

I don't mean to intrude on a discussion on a subject about which I'm not very knowledgeable, but is it possible that in the time the fechtbuchs were written knife attacks happened differently from those that happen today? For some reason, might knife/dagger attacks have been more likely to be commit...