Oh I was the highlight of the evening, that was for sure.I wish I'd been there to hear the ER staff's response to your story.
When someone in class was going too hard, Sensei (a fearsome man) would jump in and give the offender a taste of his own medicine. It was very effective. A few years later I had a student (who happened to be a well known TV and movie actor) who did a takedown without controlling his partner's fall. I followed Sensei's example. Nothing personal, just a lesson. He became a friend and attended my wedding.
My staff bites me from time to time. It waits for the smallest opportunities to bite.
Nunchaku are known to turn on its owner. I've banged my knee with tonfa and grazed my side with a sharp sai. Luckily, I've never been bit by my sharp katana. I liken weapons to a wolfdog. They may walk alongside you and forge a delicate bond, but they are not quite domesticated, not really a pet. You have to know their ways and not get careless around them.
Oh I remember you doin that
A BBC news reported a fisherman off Grimsby, who (to cut a long story short) had his leg pulled off in the netting winch. There was only about a cup blood on the deck (arteries can sometimes self-seal when pulled or ripped apart) and he felt no pain. He informed the coastguard who were sceptical of his story and took a ‘couple of paracetamol’ in case the pain did kick in! Apparently he hopped over the into the rescue boat!
I believe the pain is derived from air acting upon the free nerve endings. That’s one of the reasons they suggest covering burns with kitchen cling film!
They key point missing is that they can spasm (resulting in little or no bleeding) FOR A WHILE. I sure hope the recue folks wasted no time in getting a tourniquet in place.
Agreed. That's the currently accepted theory anyway, and it's accepted because it both makes sense and fits with the anecdotal evidence. It's similar to the mechanism behind phantom pain from amputations.
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That dead drills don't teach fighting well.
Oh yes, absolutely. The accurate name for the practise is ‘suimonogiri’ which means cutting stationary objects. Enemies don’t tend to keep still! I personally think it’s of no real value to ones swordsmanship skills, but it is a lot of fun!
I never saw it as something that is done for fighting. I always saw it as a benefit to practice one's cutting swing. You can gauge the quality of your swing by examining how the object was cut. Sort of like punching a heavy bag, it's not just for hitting hard. One must pay attention to how first lands on the bag to gauge the quality of the punch. "Cut testing" where people are just cutting bottles and random stuff aren't testing anything which is why they never talk about swing technique. It is also why stuff like this happens
Oooohhhh Jeezuz…that was hard to watch.
What an idiot! (The guy in the video, I mean.) I won't even get into his "technique" as he had none. Just his posture guaranteed failure. People should not use any weapon without training. To reiterate:
Yes it was. But it's a really good example that highlights that there's more to swinging a blade than just hacking at it. So many things done the wrong way. Look at the cut. Even though holding the watermellon like he did was stupid. He was destined to be cut as soon as he started to swing.. I'm not sure why he didn't lay it on it's side. Either way. He probably learned a big lesson that day.
Yes, but at least now he knows he needs some lol.
This makes me happy for the friends that I've made in life. None of my friends would have let me do that. They would have pointed how all of the errors of me just trying to hold the watermelon and if they couldn't stop me then they would have at least offered a safer way to stablize the watermellon without me using my hands.
