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What I suggest is taking the strikes that you use in sparring and preforming them on a test target. In a fight you should not worry about killing but incapacitating your enemy,the human body can be incredibly resilient. You say cutting someone midway will kill,you're probably right,the question is w...

That is great to hear,thanks for the response.

I am not much for belief as I am for proof. As I've stated before,one of my concerns is that the sparring becomes like the shotokan karate point systems. Some of the practitioners might think they just made a debilitating fight ending blow when in fact it was just a good bite. I understand your poin...

A soldier has to carry a lot of of weight,but most infantry will probably never be in a situation where they will have to stab someone.Rifles are better than swords and knives,and no matter if a soldier chooses a sword or knife he will have a firearm. Swords can generate more power and have longer r...

Personally I think Systema is useless in a fight,the non contact part is definitely the worst part about it but someone made a remark about solid bio mechanics,maybe he said it in a different context but from a scientific point of view systema doesn't have that either. As I see it Arma exists to rev...

Reading through some of the articles on the website I noticed that there are a lot of critics towards the arts that center on Asian swordsmanship,from my limited experience in the martial arts in general I can see a lot of the critiques being accurate. I think that in order for Armas system or progr...