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However Tabu Soro is something that ties in with my traditional status. I am a part Eurpean and my ancestor brought Guns in and stopped the Tongans from taking control of Fiji. As a reward he was given the daughters of chiefs as his wives (something like 40 of them) he was made a VUNI VALU or War Chief a very high position. For a long time they killed all his male children because they would be to powerful, but in the end he managed to keep twenty of them alive. He did this by never showing the Fijians how to repair the weapons (thats what stopped them from eating him at first) and said he would only teach his sons...so they let them live.

The Bati (Warrior clan) is traditionally a male dominated section and I have decided that because alot of what i teach is tied in with the philosophies of the Bati that I wont teach it to women.

It is also part of a larger plan that i have.

Dude, that's frightening. What is this larger plan? Build a military and take over the islands?
 
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Dude, that's frightening. What is this larger plan? Build a military and take over the islands?

I will answer both your posts here...first of all perhaps you may want to look up the Dog Bothers...its similar to that. Also I train with the military so it is a military style we dont have kata or poomse just straight up fighting skills.

The bigger plan is to turn out gentlemen, as a part of the class all my students must take up music/flower arrangement/other art form. They are taught ettiquette such as always going to seek permission from a girls family before going on a date (a custom still practiced here) for example. They must achieve a certain level of academic sucess and things like that...I dont want to teach people to be killing machines, but teach people to be all rounded. The Catholics that I ahve (the majority of them) must attend mass and be knowledgable in their catchecism and doctrine of the Church.
 
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JesusWalks,

I can see where your worries stem with children getting into more fights than adults. Personally, if I thought someone was going to misapply a combative that they wanted me to teach them the would be denied training and asked not to re-inquire. My feelings on the matter (and this answers a few of your other statements) are pretty simple: Proposed students have the mindset to properly apply what I teach or they don't; I don't care what gender they are, what color of skin they have, their sexual preference, or what personal worldview they hold.

You seem very tied to your culture and religious convictions. While I can understand where you are coming from, my thoughts are stated at the end of the previous paragraph.

In regards to stamina I can see why its harder with kids due to their developing bodies, but I don't see how its impossible. Stacked with the judo and ukemi work stamina training could give them 2-3 years of work on their plate and offer you a very viable student in the long run. If you were meaning that you couldn't feel right with pushing kids to their collapsing points, real students of combative arts should willingly be doing that to themselves.

Also, for what its worth, I applaud your requirements for well-roundedness.

In our state they have actually relaxed the laws quite a bit as far as leathal force, they have what is called a stand your ground law, if someone attacks you, you dont have to make an attempt to run or hid and risk loss of property you can kill them on the spot and are automaticly relased from any legal persecution.
In Florida, even though we have castle doctrine, stand your ground, and the whole defensive bit outside of open carry and switchblades, some DAs are still anti and will drag a victim to court even if it was a lawful shooting and they really lay into them if there happen to be some holes in the back or if there was a statement saying the aggressor was on the ground. Its a good idea not to feed politicians anything.

Usually when I go into situations where something like that is more likely to occue I have a buddy with me that sports a H&K subcompact and an M-4. I have a remake of the G-3 with a 3-9 power leopold scope, a real G-3 is about 3,500$ so maybe I will get one one of these days. With the firepower we carry there should be no need for a mag change since we are both military trained.
I'm guessing you have a CETME then if its a G-3 clone and not a HK91. I'm also guessing your friend has a carbine sized AR-15 and not an M-4 since you don't seem to know (from what you've written about the G3) about NFA item transfers and laws.

In a fight I'd classify as worthy of keeping a carbine or battle rifle on hand, I'd want spare mags; because to get that far that means I'm expecting a paramilitary force to present opposition or anticipating long distance work (up in Alaska, I can see keeping the G3 clone on hand for bears though). Luckily, I've never been presented with such situations in the real world. Also, don't rely on military training. Its not perfect by any means at least judging by the current active regular soldiers I've outperformed in classes, placed above in competitions, and neutralized in simmunitions force on force fights.

Not trying to dog you, but I seriously believe you should examine your defense routine and preparations.

I studied ninjisu in denver colorado under shidoshi speakman and he was a 6th or 7th degree, when I found the school and was training I had no idea how rare it was to find someone who taught it until I moved back to alaska now im disapointed because there are no schools up here that teach it but a least I can finish up getting my TKD black belt, the TKD I had before was more combat oriented, for thoes impractical kicks, he would demonstrate them and have us do a few and that was it, he focused on stuff we could actually use, and then in ninjitsu it was all practical.
Ninjitsu is a hard one to get a credible instructor for. Speakman has good creds since he has studied under Hatsumi. I bet you got some pretty good instruction at his dojo.

TKD, while not an awe inspiringly strong art, has its merits if its taught as a combative instead of as a sport. I don't know Speakman's curriculum and how it deviates from the Bujinkan's or how far you got in it, but its possible your TKD could be a linear supplement to your ninjitsu.
 
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JesusWalks,

I can see where your worries stem with children getting into more fights than adults. Personally, if I thought someone was going to misapply a combative that they wanted me to teach them the would be denied training and asked not to re-inquire. My feelings on the matter (and this answers a few of your other statements) are pretty simple: Proposed students have the mindset to properly apply what I teach or they don't; I don't care what gender they are, what color of skin they have, their sexual preference, or what personal worldview they hold.

You seem very tied to your culture and religious convictions. While I can understand where you are coming from, my thoughts are stated at the end of the previous paragraph.

In regards to stamina I can see why its harder with kids due to their developing bodies, but I don't see how its impossible. Stacked with the judo and ukemi work stamina training could give them 2-3 years of work on their plate and offer you a very viable student in the long run. If you were meaning that you couldn't feel right with pushing kids to their collapsing points, real students of combative arts should willingly be doing that to themselves.

Also, for what its worth, I applaud your requirements for well-roundedness.


In Florida, even though we have castle doctrine, stand your ground, and the whole defensive bit outside of open carry and switchblades, some DAs are still anti and will drag a victim to court even if it was a lawful shooting and they really lay into them if there happen to be some holes in the back or if there was a statement saying the aggressor was on the ground. Its a good idea not to feed politicians anything.


I'm guessing you have a CETME then if its a G-3 clone and not a HK91. I'm also guessing your friend has a carbine sized AR-15 and not an M-4 since you don't seem to know (from what you've written about the G3) about NFA item transfers and laws.

In a fight I'd classify as worthy of keeping a carbine or battle rifle on hand, I'd want spare mags; because to get that far that means I'm expecting a paramilitary force to present opposition or anticipating long distance work (up in Alaska, I can see keeping the G3 clone on hand for bears though). Luckily, I've never been presented with such situations in the real world. Also, don't rely on military training. Its not perfect by any means at least judging by the current active regular soldiers I've outperformed in classes, placed above in competitions, and neutralized in simmunitions force on force fights.

Not trying to dog you, but I seriously believe you should examine your defense routine and preparations.


Ninjitsu is a hard one to get a credible instructor for. Speakman has good creds since he has studied under Hatsumi. I bet you got some pretty good instruction at his dojo.

TKD, while not an awe inspiringly strong art, has its merits if its taught as a combative instead of as a sport. I don't know Speakman's curriculum and how it deviates from the Bujinkan's or how far you got in it, but its possible your TKD could be a linear supplement to your ninjitsu.
I know about federal firearms laws all to well, and you are correct the weapons we posses are the semi auto versions of the weapons I named, most people dont know the difference so its easier to name what people know. I bought my G3 (I will call it that because its only 2 letters to type) because it can double as a hunting weapon and self defense weapon, it is a little less moble than my buddys M4 but the .308 round will mess someones world up if I need the range and power, for close combat I have the ruger 9mm.

The bottom line is I did martial arts when I was in college as a life goal and I only trained under speakman for 1.5 years because I did not own a car down there and my rides ran dry, one day I would like to start training again in ninjitsu, maybe I will email him and ask for recommendations for my area there may be someone that does not have an official dojo that I could pay to train me and have another friend to play poker and drink margaritas with, you never know. The guns are mainly a hobbie, im a shooting enthusiest but they can also serve me in an emergency situation, I always have lots of extra ammo just in case, just like carrying warm clothing and extra food, in alaska you dont last long if something happens and your not prepared, so what would seem melodramatic to most is the norm for me in alaska. I dont carry a hand gun everywhere but I do have it very handy at the house, anchorage is starting to get to the point where in a few years I may reconsider carrying. Also in alaska you do not need a permit to carry consealed. Speakmans curriculum was very good, the class was very layed back and he was extremely calm person but I felt passive compared to some of the other students, the students were nice people I got along with but I still felt passive, it was very useful though.

I went ahead and sent the email to Lary Speakman so with great luck I may be able to train in Ninjutsu again, I would much rather pursue Ninjutsu than TKD but a double black belt in both arts would be cool too.

Oh and you could not be more right about military training, it was marginal at best and I got out of the national guard after a year and a half because I could acomplish more on my own without going to iraq. The country has its priorities all messed up, the national guard is suppost to be a state defense force but now its just a pool for the active duty to draft from.
 
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Rppearso,

Sorry if I came across as offensive. The internet is a hard place to get a real feel for people so I just went off of what I could read.

7.62x51 is a good round for Alaska. Up there you've got a lot of big critters to deal with that require good penetration. You also have the cold and windy environment which makes little rounds flutter all over the place.

Anchorage is really getting that bad? Eeks...

For what its worth, I vacationed to Alaska one summer with my family when I was younger; beautiful, beautiful place.

Also, good luck finding a ninjitsu trainer!
 
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Rppearso,

Sorry if I came across as offensive. The internet is a hard place to get a real feel for people so I just went off of what I could read.

7.62x51 is a good round for Alaska. Up there you've got a lot of big critters to deal with that require good penetration. You also have the cold and windy environment which makes little rounds flutter all over the place.

Anchorage is really getting that bad? Eeks...

For what its worth, I vacationed to Alaska one summer with my family when I was younger; beautiful, beautiful place.

Also, good luck finding a ninjitsu trainer!
I have got my motivation to train all over again about a few weeks ago. Anchorage is not to bad relative to the lower 48 but for thoes of us that have been here all our lives (save college in colorado) we are not used to gang shootings and drug dealing (other than weed but that doesnt count no one shoots someone over weed when everyone is growing it). The .308 will also mess a gang banners world up, espesially 20 rounds of .308 with a few extra mags, of course loading a .308 mag tends to take longer becasue its heavier and more combersome to load a mag into a rifle with a scope.

I need a beer, im having flash backs from college days in chemical engineering, lol. Did you know Lary Speakman is a chemical engineer from the colorado school of mines as well.
 
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