Nungali

...... arrrghhh ! .... my epilepsy ! You make me fit !

Nah . its that we get 'nodes' and peaks of genius , sometimes in clusters ( I mean , look at what was going on around 500 bc *! ) ... we seem to have been in a slump for a while . Edit : * I meant generally, not musically

He needs to ....

with 3 yo boy twins ... they wait and lurk ... then strike in unison !

a crab ? well, I didnt look that closely !

Close ... but in the one Lima hung sent me they didnt have pants on !

Kids used to love that ... get right up close with the pop gun and ..... blam ! right in the head .... when you couch napping .

Ha har ! The 'secret ' of ' karate bunkais' or as I call them ; 1001 defences against oi tsuki - basically, they stand back one step in a deep , hard - to - move - quick - from - stance and then have to do a giant step forward to get in range . I like doing this ; face off in this (usual) position . I say " Punch " ... and as they start to move, I just turn and walk away . even fairly slowly , and I am way outta their range . It mystifies them ! My God there is so much crap in karate ! I know .... I know ... one time some guy is gonna get me with a flying oi tsuki right in the back serves me right for teasin them .... if they ever figure it out !

I won a few bets like that " I bet I can punch you from here ." ( I call it 'the flying oi tsuki )

Yep , we practice that . 'Nobudhi Nogada and Oshimi Passai forms are full of such disarms (if you know how to 'read' the form ) The first move in Nobudhi is against a circular staff strike ; move inside the arc, absorb the blow with palms, towards the middle, followed by an immediate flick in their eyeball, punch down through their hands to brake their grip, , circle up with a r shuto turning it over to a wrist lock while manipulating staff with other hand so the other end is between their legs , press staff down and lift wrist lock and they end up doubled over in standing positing with the staff now an making an elbow lock on one end and the other end pressing up into their ..... ' margita gambolas ' , a motion to kick makes them turn their face away (and usually try to shield with their free hand ) exposing the region just below the ear and back of jaw for a big toe kick . The whole thing is very fluid and doesnt use strength or force at all . I also did a lot of 'weapon taking' in Aikido , but they dont seem to want to try it out in a free for all situation or with variation or 'tricks' ... that is the one with the weapon is REALLY trying to get the other ... not just 'offering' themselves up to do a 'disarm drill' . Hard to progress towards 'real' by doing that ^ ... it does look flashy and efficient to some though

What ? You never been 'popped' in the forehead ?

WASPIE rap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant

Dont play dumb ! And stop sending me those pornographic pictures !

Again ? Okay . I was at big professional martial arts club in nearby city , teaching the owner instructor some rare kobudo forms . I was asked to come when no one there, and 'park around the back ' . There are a lot of clubs in this area, big competition ( both types, I mean , also big business competition ) . They all have their system of 'recognition' ( and charging and fees ) to get up through the (their ) grades . I am outside of that so 'unrecognised' ( means 'unqualified' to them ) . But still , I am secreted in to 'show' the 'top qualified' . Anywayz , we did it, then shared some techniques and on his large weapons rack I noticed he had wooden hand guns . Me; " Dont tell me you are teaching unarmed defence against a hand gun ! " " Sure, why not ? Wanna try it out on me ? " " ....... Wot ! ? " " Take up a gun and I will show you some of our moves ." " Seriously ? " " Yeah, go on . " "Okay then . " I took a gun off the rack, looked at it, held it my hand, (and from my spot at the gun rack ) simply raised it and pointed it at him from about 15 metres away . " Put your hands up or I will shoot you . " He did . " Now take out your wallet and toss it over here on the ground . " - he threw it in front of himself . "Not there, wise guy , over here I said . Now you back off , way over there and go home . " and he goes .... I dont care , that wallet has no ID , cards and only $30 cash in it . " Me; " Yeah ? " I aimed the 'gun' at his knee and said " BANG ! - Thats for being a smart arse . ..... .... I hope to hell you aren't teaching the kids this stuff ? ! " ( If anyone doesnt know what I mean ... check out the 'range' the 'projectile weapon' is being used at in the above vid ... and all of them actually ! ^ This range is only necessary if your weapon is

And you get in your car and you drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and lands on the ground And out comes a man from Mars And you try to run but he's got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head And then you're in the man from Mars You go out at night, eatin' cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercuries and Subaru And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars Then, when there's no more cars You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet Face to face, dance cheek to cheek One to one, man to man Dance toe to toe Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall He's gonna eat 'em all Rapture, be pure Take a tour, through the sewer Don't strain your brain, paint a train You'll be singin' in the rain I said don't stop, do punk rock

Some 'blame' it on this .... others say it was a first attempt at 'upper class acceptance ' ; as one 'famous black musician ' said : "We didnt know what the fuck she was talking about .... but we know where the rest came from. " ( from 1:55 that is ) . (

Why is it so ? And what happened ! ? Somehow we went from this to this

15 households and their gardens over about 50 acres plus a community house barn amenities block, orchids and festival site , one gravity feeding central water tank, one pump by the river and ...... 40 years of hippies laying ag pipe (as domestic supply line ) - with gate valves - all over the place , where ever ... ! Black underground spaghetti ! And you guys talk about water problems ! (The most recent adventure was the old original farm metal pipe from pump house under the main external sealed road to the residential side {and the only line there } rusted out . Drill under the road ? Dig a trench and re tar ? (At the moment its a dodgy 'quick / emergency' patch up job - done 10 months ago ! )

As long as you understand all the Freudian connotations of what you just said

... you just had to add that. didnt you .

a little more than halfway through ? .... looks like a gun ??? ... I am sure you know my take on that ? " could move people who were uncooperative and insensitive to energy at a distance just by using his mind, no hands. " I can do that ... they usually get 'moved ' to a state of engagement ...

Except I didnt point out that a lot of the 'empty hand' techniques of Karate and Aikido were developed with the consideration that you were wearing a sword anyway (and may chose to use it or not ) , or were against a sword , or were designed to stop a sword draw, or to counter a stop from a sword draw. A few years back I did a very enlightening seminar on all this, with (the now passed over ) Dave Browne ... very interesting ( and fun ! ) Did Samurai use the staff much ? or did they just 'knock the end off' for 'peace time training' ? ... and check your training weapons ... I seen a few rather nasty accidents from damaged, worn , weapons or badly made ones, or ones made from wrong material .... like a shard of split bamboo piercing someone's eyeball ! That was horrible ... really horrible ... they managed to recover okay ... phew ! do not do bamboo 'staff fighting' ... if you do, chuck them after a few hits and get a new one .

Oooo ! Look what popped up at the end of that vid ... haven't seen that before !

I like using the reverse grip when someone tries to stop the (wooden) knife with some dodgy karate type 'block' . Especially the 'upper block ' . Instructor tried to 'teach us' some knife defence ; a downward overhand strike , is countered by an 'upper block' and the other hand reaches up to grab the attacks knife wrist ....... With reverse grip, as soon as the block is attempted I just pull my arm back, slashing and / or trapping, ' he 'blocking' arm . The blade can also be used to 'grab', hook or something with the blade's back and hold it against your fore arm , giving applications like a 'short kama ' . And a good grip for swift slashing 'figure 8 attack ' - see Dan at 0:35 , 0:57, 1:07,