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My GOD ! Someone put me onto a video suggesting I might like it . Like it !? I love it ! .. and I feel vindicated ! I got so sick of the lame martial arts I was associated with and people telling me what I did was wrong or somehow incorrect ..... " But the other guy is on the ground ! " - Well, not wholly true , it was mostly 'instructors' that complained . Some students actually came and trained with me on the side . I didn't negate their training ... what I taught them helped develop what they were trained in . Here is the vid I wowed just after the beginning ... not because she is a woman but because of what she said and did ! If she wasn't so awesome I would suspect I had a doppelganger .... she declared my central strategy ; to mix and add all the things I learned but application depends on what they other does .... what they 'offer to you ' .The foot control and placement ( pinning down theor feet with yours ) , simply walking through (with a knee to the head on the way ) subtle use of elbows (including a 'back hand' elbow strike ) , hand on shoulder or side of head - finger or thumb reaches around to target eye , and especially striking the inside forearm nerves when they strike , ( but she does it from the outside ) , enter 'arm tangle' take down , switching inside to outside , 'spreading their stance' with a foot sweep, 'flow from one thing to another ' ( a LOT easier if you do actually respond to what they are doing , the 'shape' they make, how they fall ... taking advantage of what is 'right in front of you ' * . Also her stance and delivery .... its something I battled for years ; " You look 'sloppy' you are just standing there doing stuff ! " True ... but other dude is on the ground ! Why ? because they held their 'perfect rigid form' and couldn't adapt what they supposedly;y had learnt to a new situation . * I find this lacking in a few . I would do something considered radical , with , a weapon and people would ask 'where did THAT come from !? I would say , for example ; " Gojushiho form move 14 " ... but that is an empty hand form ! they would protest .Adapt guys ! Adapt ! ! I never seen any one that close to my own individual style, adaptions and philosophies .Except I don't use a 'soft weapon' (scarf of similar ) .- Look at his face at 10:40 '' He might also have a weapon. ' ' again ! Indeed ! I just assume he has and hasn't showed it yet . And also exactly what I say now ; " I cant run fast anymore ( no run away option ) so I do what I can - to survive ." ( I also assume he has mates hiding watching and waiting nearby ) AND using the environment around you whatever it is ( " That was a Volkswagen I just shoved your head into ." ) .The main difference between myself and her is her awesome level of skill ..... I'm not near that .She had Dan Inasanto as a teacher ! ..... someone I always emulated and agreed with ( I got his first comprehensive book with a personally signed inner front page .)her cred : Sifu / Guro LaVonne Martin has been in martial arts for 47 years training with some of the top instructors around the world. She is one of a handful of women to attain FULL INSTRUCTORSHIP in Jun Fan /Jeet Kune Do and the Filipino Martial Arts under Dan Inosanto, the late Bruce Lee protégé. Her current credentials include: Full Instructorship in Bruce Lee’s Jun Fan Gung Fu / Jeet Kune Do Instructor Level 1 Maphalindo Silat Senior Full Instructor in Wing Chun Kung Fu under Sifu Francis Fong in Atlanta. Associate Instructor under Ajarn Chai Sirisute in Muay Thai Thai Boxing. Black Belt in CS_Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Under Sensei Erik Paulson Coach Level 1 in Combat Submission Wrestling – Erik Paulson She has studied several different types of Pencak Silat including Mande Muda with the late Pak Herman Suwanda and Serek with Pak Victor DeThouras. Full Instructor in Filipino Martial Arts of Kali / Silat Sifu Martin attained rank in the following arts: 3rd Dan Shuri Ryu Karate 5th Dan Shintoyoshin Jiu Jitsu 2nd Dan Tae Kwon Do Brown Belt Kempo Jiu Jutsu'.

They even survived an invasion !

No .

Doggies ! - I was a postman for a few years . Ya gotta learn all the tricks ! The above stuff wasn't required .

and the definitions of the terms

By fulfilling your own definition of what you think it is . Or maybe you have adopted a specific definition ?

Yes, that's the way to go about . read up on the planets and what they represent , then the houses they are in then the aspects they have with each other . Its tricky at first but after a little time it all starts coming together . When you have that down start adding the other planets and aspects and influences . Eventually it will be like a jigsaw puzzle, bits and patches of the picture will start to emerge . Eventually it should all fit together in your understanding ... like a giant kaleidoscope of 'person' . Then if you want to go further , you can turn the kaleidoscope and watch it change ( that's the daily or current chart . ) Then you can superimpose your natal over the daily - then you have transits . ... but that's in the future , don't rush ahead , get solid on the basics . ..... how do you feel today

" ... universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. " I am taking the three forces as 'unreal' and not the Universes .... no doubt a variation on the 'purport' I have written a lot about this ...... beyond the concept of the three Gunas . They are 'unreal' as they are not 'material ' ... solid .... three- dimensional , but their existence is postulated as factual as their evidence is everywhere found . The three modes of nature interact ( on which ever level we consider ; eg the strong force, the weak force and the electromagnetic force ) but are 'beyond the veil' , 'above the abyss ' , 'behind material existence ' . But when these 'ideal' forces interact the produce another thing that is 'real' and material - or a 'multitude of things ' ( everything ) which is the '4th' stage of the manifestation ... connected to the other three but not in a way we can 'see' ( to follow the above example those three forces can fit into a 'unified field theory ' but the 4th force, gravity , does not - as it is a product of the first three , not part of their 'set' . ) Which is why, in the Tao . 'the three gave birth to all things ' ; people mostly consider the duality of yin and yang and acknowledge that 'signature' in creation , but the 'principle of three' seems little discussed. And not only do these three lead inevitable to 4 , but these 4 operate in three modes ; have a look at the way your fingers are constructed . " Mysterious Energy, triform, mysterious Matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division, the interplay of which things weave the dance of the Veil of Life upon the Face of the Spirit ... " Here the sevenfold division relates to the planets and represents 7 forms of energy interacting within the 12 (3 x4 ) modes or 'fields' . ,

We got lots of wild dogs here . Sometimes I hear them across the river at night in the forest . One crossed over the other night and nabbed a neighbors chicken ... that must have been a rare treat ! No other trouble though .

Chain mail ... a good option for daily wear ? ? ? are you being deliberately silly again ? Have you ever worn it ? Its heavy ! Haven't you heard of kevlar ??? Amazon.com: Cut Resistant T-Shirt, Knife Proof Shirt Clothing, 5-Level Protective Anti-Cutting Protective

and that is a perfect example of 'black school Gnosticism ' For me , the lesson in Ecclesiates is not to finish it ! The actual answer is not to have empires, wives, riches, etc etc It is to do a good hard days work that achieves something and at the end of the day to relax with a glass of wine (or whatever ) and contemplate the good works you have done that day . ( Ecc , 2:24 )

Well apparently of you get 100 monkeys at typewriters ..... you will eventually get a piece suitable to post on Daobums !

Don't ask Lairg about it then ! When all else is defeated .... " Look Ralis ! I just KNOW ... okay ! " First they start with language , a challenge , some theory and logic . When that is met or pointed out to be wrong , sometimes even in their own 'field' and explanation .... its a 'default position ' ... " I just KNOW I am right ... ok !" This the way of the world nowadays or they don't answer , and go off elsewhere to do it all over again . and they will get likes ... and you be unpop . (and I don't mean you will get younger ) But I ask ... what 'diamond clarity ' perception does one own ... where 'just knowing' is pure and not influenced by that very 'knowing apparatus', its development upbringing and conditioning , in the first place ? THAT would seem a mistake of denying ANY ego influence . .

Well ... you might ..... if 'commies' start swarming out your drain inlets ! ( I saw a movie with that in it once .... a Russian invasion that landed on the coast and soldiers went up all the drain and sewer outlets and emerged in peoples yards, parking lots ...... You might need guns like that ... you might need Chuck too !

Its effected some archaeology as well , especially in my area of specialty ; south Central Asia / ancient Margiana Archaeological Complex / BMAC / 'Oxus Civilisation' . Previously access was a little difficult , but one could 'play ball' with the Soviets , once you were 'in' you only had to deal with the central authority . Now one has to deal with Uzbekistan , Tajikistan and ( forget it ! ) Afghanistan to gain access to what was previously one area . (And it is just as bad the other way around .... back then one Soviet archaeologist specialist in that area was invited to USA for a conference . he was taken on sightseeing trip as well and like tourists do he was taking photo ... and talking in a Russian accent . later he got all messed up in some 'spy ' BS until his US counterpart professor bailed him out . ) And the most relevant parts ? Forget it ; aside from the difficulties of terrain isolation and weather ..... i the political / military situation there is near impossible . There has been one recent doco on it though ;

Possibly far north in the Volga Delta and then into the Central Steppe area . But that general area , especially to the south and into Ukraine had some of the largest human settlements of the time .... vast ! yet little known as they did not 'classify;' ( in the resent past ) as 'civilizations' . New Research Suggests Ukraine May Precede Mesopotamia as Home of First Cities

A joke from my Persian boss about being a new migrant and trying to understand English ; " A man rushes into hardware store ; " Quick, sell me potato clock ! " Assistant; " I'm sorry a what ? " " A potato clock ... quick ! Or my boss sack me .... I need job bad ." " Hang on I am not understanding you ... slow down and tell me what you want ?" " I don't understand , all new and confusing . My boss tell me quick I get a potato clock or I get the sack from new job, I don't understand please help me ! " " You better tell me the whole story, that might make it clear on what he wants . " " Yes, ok, very good ... my name is Massoud, I come from Iran , I have work visa . I get a nice flat nearby and luck, I also get good job, just around the corner , near flat, I can walk to work . I start work at 9 am , so easy, I get up 8:30 ... easy to make on time . But I want to look good for first day , so iron best clothes , have good shower, deodorant, shave , after shave , do hair ... shine shoes ... I get carried away ... turn up 9;10 . Boss very unhappy he ask 'Massoud ! I give you job and you turn up 10 minutes late on first day ! Why ?" So I explain to him what happened , how I get up 8;30 but it took too long as I want to make ready for a good impression and that's when boss say to me ; " Well Massoud , if you want to keep your job ... you better get a potato clock !

Most of this area , aside from the coast has little development . The whole country is a bit like that . Many don't realize, including Aussies . Now we seem to have a mass of smaller National Parks all over the place . The green bits : Map Apps ! Some one registered their business at our address and wanted it located on Google maps . Now the map shows a star where that business is supposed to be ... its way up the back of the property in the wild, with no road or track to it ! The people that live in the last house 'up the back ' have an old logging track that goes behind their place up to the back ridge' . Sometimes they notice a car going up that should not be - meaning a nice, new clean low car ... that gets stuck . When asked why they were there , their satellite navigation directed them there to go to the business . And a weirder one . I was looking at a map and if I do a run up the mountain, out to the north east , cut across some forestry, national parks and farmland I can come down the highland and into Coffs Harbour at the north . yet on the map, the southern extent of Coffs harbor goes west . Why did it never expand a bit more, over that ridge into the next area and valley ? That valley runs north for ages , parallel to the coast . That whole area is closed access for everyone that lives there and getting farm produce out and supplies in , takes a long journey north up that valley , then around to the east to go down this road north of the city . A 1 km new road linking the two would make it a 10 minute trip . Maybe the map is confusing me , so I went to satellite map ... looks the same .... if one could just 'hop over that hill ' . So me being curious as I am went for a ride out there to check it out . So here is the gist ; when I get there ( from the city side ) .... the road ends and looking up a grass hill I see a tree line . That is where, on the map, it goes down the other side into this 'isolated valley ' , I am still flummoxed; 'Why did they never build that little bit of road ? Then coming back I see the property nearest to it has some paddocks with cows in it and driveway that goes up in that general direction and it has a big hand painted angry looking sign . 'private property , this is a driveway to my house NOT to the valley on the other side SAT NAV IS WRONG ! DO NOT enter . ' One gets the impression that several people have been directed by sat nav up there ,. So how did THAT get into the system ... did sat nav AI (or whatever the hell it is ) look at the map like I did and decide a road SHOULD be there ... so it 'is ' ? Weird ! I want nothing to do with it ! Once I had to drive a work van full of high tech very expensive camera equipment from Brisbane to Sydney ... half way the God dam thing is screaming at me that I have gone off road and driving through farmland , the map screen is flashing and you can see the road way over there away from the car . But my own senses are telling me I am driving down a four lane highway ! Its the beginning of the end I tell ya ! We need Magnus ! Damn AI sat nav BS ... take this ... and this ....

You must have typed something into your search engine to get those pictures , so I am wondering why the question ? You could have just typed the question in and got a whole page of images of martial arts armor , for sale, in use during competition , in reviews . . .

" Excuse me madam .... I believe you mentioned the unmentionable around here ... and changing the spelling will not excuse you ! " .......

My Persian friend told me that's where ' Good Iranians ' go for 'holidays' ( to be naughty ) .

True... for ' most ' ... but I taught them . one example ; my garden hose was coiled over our grass training area at my place , one of the guys offered to move it before we began ; "No, leave it there . " Also training outdoors is a BIG difference . But even then one should 'mix it up' . the Saturday class was in town by the river . Once I got them to go through a pattern NOT facing the river ( which was usual ) and some got mixed up and confused ! An interesting lesson . My secret weapon No one thing is so justifiable .

I got one of those ... not the Kwaka* (niiiiiice ! - by the way ) , but the home . parked at local shop having a drink , a couple of riders are refulling about to go 'up the mountain' one of the premier rides on the east coast . One of them, to me " You are riding light ! " ( no bags, back pack , no full riding suit ) "yeah ... I'm a local ." The look ! Gotta mate that rides and lives in the city - 40 mins of traffic and lights to get anywhere enjoyable . * mine ; But with lowered seat and hot dog muffler . TRy from 1:50 , going from the southern end of the plateau 'over the edge ' (down the mountain ) .

Hi Constantine , it seems we have some interests and practices in common , I highlighted them above .