Kilted Hero in Ottawa

[Dreadbelly]

That's not as funny as it sounds. Some of the things the Stooges did to each other, if they had actually done what it appeared they were doing, would be severely disabling.

Who said I was being funny?

All jokes aside, I grew up in projects, ghettos, reservations, all sorts of places unfit for human beings to live, yet they do. Do you really think I would be typing here today had I chose to be gentle? The only person looking out for me up to this point has been me. And that has meant fighting dirty. Not all of us are so fortunate to have civilized upbringings. Not all of us have loving fathers and mothers. Not all of us have spent our childhoods sheltered and nurtured. This is no slight on anybody here, just a sad statement on how life is. I can't say I am proud of everything I have done, but I can say I am still here.

As it's been said already so very well, the only time you find "fair" and "fight" together is in a dictionary.

[Archangel]

Musashi teaches whatever you are good at should become your martial technique. I was watching the sheep shearer at Fergus last week and somewhere through the process I started thinking I wouldn't want to fight this guy. He controlled every movement of the animal and cut its wool.
My friend from Glasgow is a master of "anawtha". Karate, Kung fu, judo, anawtha.

[davedove]

I was watching the sheep shearer at Fergus last week and somewhere through the process I started thinking I wouldn't want to fight this guy. He controlled every movement of the animal and cut its wool.

SO true! Especially not any kind of grappling! Having grown up around animals, I know how hard they can be to control if you don't know what you're doing. I imagine if that guy got ahold of you, he could pretty much make you do whatever he wanted.