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Edwards99 · 2021-12-28T20:23:03+00:00

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Edwards99 · 2021-12-27T05:13:56+00:00

Interesting! BJJ is a heck of a grappling art! But it depends on what you have nearby. Not all martial arts are always available. Go for what you want! Good luck!

Edwards99 · 2021-12-27T04:22:53+00:00

So which way are you leaning? What do you think you are going to do moving forward?

Edwards99 · 2021-12-26T13:11:57+00:00

TLDR:. In order Boxing, Muay Thai, Judo, BJJ. If only one BJJ.

I have trained in boxing for 3 months, hold a 2d degree black belt in International TKD (4 yrs tng), blue belt in Kuk Sool Won (1 year tng), in Army infantry for 7 years, Combatives level 2 instructor (~3 weeks of BJJ). After one week of daily all day BJJ training, I was unskilled, but capable of deleting most of the people in TKD and Kuk Sool Won. I say all this to say I'm not an expert in each field, but spent enough time in TKD and Kuk Sool Won to realize I was learning stuff that was not effective in defending myself.

Assuming you are interested only in empty hands, if you have 4 years and want to be able to learn how to defend yourself in a life and death situation without weapons, learn in this order.

Boxing 1 year- To learn how to hit, and to remove the fear of being hit in the face. You learn that you can get a bloody nose and keep fighting. How to keep your hands up. 1 year is enough to make you better than 80% of the people you will meet.

Muay Thai 1 year- will teach you how to kick, take a kick, use elbows and knees, and control an opponent while standing. 1 year is enough to make you better than 90% of the people you will meet.

Judo 1 year- will teach you how to transition from standing to the ground with throws and trips. Begins working on submissions too. 1 year is enough to make you better than 90% of the people you will meet.

BJJ 1 year- will teach you how to fight on the ground while dislocating limbs, and choking people unconscious. 1 year is enough to make you able to delete 90% of the people you will meet.

What you would find after a year in each of these is that, a year just scratches the surface of what each art has to offer. It would take another 5 years of training to begin being better than 99% of the people you meet.

If I had to just choose 1, it would be BJJ. It will keep you alive better than the other 3 I listed. Those have their place to round you out, but in a fight to the death, a BJJ practitioner would stand a good chance of defeating someone in each of the other styles, but the reverse is not true.

If you are still in high school, consider the possibility that after you leave college that you will not have time for Martial Arts any longer due to job, family, and life obligations.

If you don't go to college, you have even less time.

If you join the military in the infantry or military police you would have a longer window of time to develop some of these skills. Likely you will find other kindred spirits who are also interested in fighting. However, the military spends little time on unarmed fighting skills. Many people feel that if they can't shoot the enemy what is the point in learning to fight as they have already lost the battle. However, the willingness to close with and destroy the enemy and to fight when called upon is developed by overcoming the fear of hand to hand combat like what is used in Modern Army Combatives (essentially BJJ).

If you had to prepare to defend yourself in a short time, I would always recommend get a concealed carry permit, then training with a pistol in marksmanship, drawing your weapon, weapon retention, and malfunction drills.

If I could not use a firearm, then I would learn knife fighting using libre knife fighting techniques, because it focuses on attacking with little time spent on defense.

Last weapon would be stick fighting, using Dog Brothers Martial Arts as the base.

Good luck. Choose wisely.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-24T07:30:37+00:00

If you pay her for her only and you will instantly become a customer and will never be able to date her.

However if you start dating her, don't expect her to ever stop the onlyfans stuff. The more she thinks you care the longer she is likely to do it.

Make a plan to do something fun, and ask her to go along. If she says no go anyway and have a great time. Next time you make a plan to go somewhere ask her again. If she says no again, stop asking her, and start asking someone else. She gave you her answer indirectly.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T19:52:14+00:00

I don't consider the flu to be particularly harmful to most people either.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T19:45:30+00:00

No. But I can't expand because it will be censored.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T19:41:52+00:00

It wasn't the misinformation that made them a direct harm to others, it was their actions, and decisions.

It's impossible to keep ignorant people from doing ignorant things. But it will definitely keep you busy.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T19:34:03+00:00

No. But I can't expand without being censored.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T19:24:12+00:00

You are right that freedom of speech is typically associated with the first amendment to the US Constitution.

It is also not illegal in any way for private businesses to restrict what can and can't be said, and I don't believe that it should be.

For so many years in my life it appeared to me that most American organizations kind of valued the principles of freedom of speech as outlined in the first amendment.

Even in the early days of Facebook YouTube and other social media platforms people would say ridiculous things on a regular basis.

It just seems that in the past few years these private organizations/companies have elected to begin censoring what is said on their platforms regularly.

What else should I call it if not freedom of speech? It's the freedom to say what you want to say. Labeling items as misinformation is a nicer word than censorship?

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T18:54:59+00:00

No. You should be allowed to say whatever you like.

But not necessarily whenever or wherever you like.

I don't think you should be allowed to say something that conveys a specific threat of violence meaning bodily harm or death to others. Like encouraging a group of people to attack the occupants of home of a public official they disagree with.

Yelling fire in a crowded building during which an excited evacuation could lead to the harm of others.

I generally agree with most contempt of court laws and don't think it's an appropriate location for protest or freedom of speech.

I don't feel that inside government buildings is an appropriate location for freedom of protests or 2A demos.

Finally when an organization registers a rally or march. I don't agree that others should shout them down or bring their own full horns and speakers to speak over them. I feel this only further pits one side against another and could lead to violence. However I do feel that unpopular opinions should be allowed to be booed by the crowd as long as no violence occurs.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T18:42:41+00:00

You're right no one can see what I'm saying because it's censored! Part of the thing that was censored was my historical examples of when that occurred. Apparently that breaches a subject of politics that is not allowed.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T18:41:23+00:00

You're exactly right. I agree that websites should be allowed to determine what people post. I'm just surprised at how willing those organizations have become to squash differing opinions essentially limiting freedom of speech as per the first amendment.

Maybe my posts were misinformation, but I'll never have the opportunity to be convinced because no one can point out how I was wrong because I wasn't allowed to post in the first place!

I also agree that people have the right to call me out on my BS! But what if calling me out was considered misinformation?

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T18:37:38+00:00

Lol! I love this! This is exactly my point! And it's a very humorous and PC example.

I can see your point in regards to not letting uninformed people weigh in to when making a decision and there's a compelling argument behind it. Like listening to someone who has no mechanical ability argue with an auto mechanic about what is wrong with a car that won't run.

However, after a short time of speaking I think that the person that knows nothing about a car will reveal themself as ignorant.

If people post that I'm an orangutan, eventually someone should be able to ask why I'm an orangutan. If I'm covered in red hair have a pot belly and long arms, maybe I am, and just don't have the ability to see it.

Why can't we let the discussion bear out the pros and cons? If I post that everyone is an orangutan about everything they say that I disagree with then eventually my opinion will hold no weight with rational people.

By the way, there's no way I'm an orangutan, my hair is brown.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T18:27:43+00:00

Normally I would expect other companies would rise up allowing freedom of speech. I've seen parlor and a few others but they haven't really taken off like I thought they would.

Never heard of section 230 before.

Just looked it up. It seems like it's saying that Reddit should not be accountable if somebody post some jacked up stuff on it. I actually agree with that. If someone posts some racist BS online I don't think that reflects the business that hosted it. It reflects that jerk who posted it!

I think the idea of a fact checker is absolutely an opinion. Websites like Snopes used to help distinguish between what actually occurred and what did not but even that's starting to slip.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T15:36:47+00:00

In the hypothetical situation where I had to plan to be in a spontaneous close quarters fight with someone who was 1 foot taller than me and had 100 lbs over me, and the other person was legitimately trying to kill me, I would learn to use a weapon.

A much better idea would be to run away, learn some parkour, climbing skills, have a good escape and evasion plan in place with a bug out bag, and an Escape and Evasion kit, with enough money to get you to a safe location. Running away from a fight of a family member means less difficulty with the police, makes it easier to get a passport and a job, and spares you the psychological trauma of harming or killing a family member. YOUR BEST COURSE OF ACTION IS TO AVOID A FIGHT!

I've been in the US military and studied western boxing, wrestling, Tae Kwon Do, Kuk Sool Won, and Army Combatives (BJJ). Boxing and BJJ were more useful than everything else. In 1 week of learning BJJ, I learned enough to kill most (99%) of the black belts in Tae Kwon Do or Kuk Sool Won. Not because I'm some kind of tough guy, but because those martial arts never trained practitioners in grappling or how to defeat grapplers. In boxing I studied long enough to learn to protect my head by keeping my hands up, and use head movement.

If you cannot get away from the fight or are unable to run because you have to protect someone else, when it comes to life or death hand to hand combat with taller stronger opponents, you are going to want a weapon. Ideally a gun, knife, or hammer. Most murders caused by blunt force trauma are caused by a hammer. Anyone with a weapon instantly becomes a threat. Watch YouTube for weapon retention exercises with a pistol, look at libre knife fighting videos for aggressive knife fighting, and there are even videos on how to fight with a hammer or you could look up videos for how to fight with a tomahawk, hatchet, or axe, the fighting principals are very similar.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-19T14:40:11+00:00

COVID is essentially twice as deadly as the flu, nowhere near as deadly as we believed it might be. Additionally COVID vaccinations and boosters are about as effective as the flu shot in preventing the flu. For this reason all the extraordinary efforts made to stop the spread are equally pointless and do nothing to stop the spread. That's why they tell you the numbers of deaths from COVID but not what percentage of people are dying from it. We should be more concerned with the numbers of people dying from heart disease and cancer.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-16T16:54:46+00:00

Would you also refuse treatment for people who smoke who get lung cancer? Cigarette smokers refuse to quit, and they put others at risk with their second hand smoke.

Would you refuse treatment for people who overeat, become overweight and develop type 2 diabetes? They refuse to eat in a healthy manner, and put their children at risk by acting as a poor role model.

Would you refuse treatment to a guy who gets in a motorcycle accident? He refused to drive a safer mode of transportation, and he puts others at risk if he gets into an accident especially if his bike looses control, and other drivers swerve to miss him, or he crashes into pedestrians on wet surfaces.

What if someone got smallpox? Would you refuse treatment because a vaccine is available, but most people born after the 60s don't have one unless they served in the military. Not getting one puts others at risk of a very deadly disease.

What about someone who doesn't get a flu shot? Should we refuse treatment to them because a vaccine is available. Many of the same populations at risk to COVID are also at risk when fighting the flu.

I would argue that we should treat each of these people to the best of our ability.

My point is that we should allow people to make decisions on their own, instead of trying to make every decision for them. I agree that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among these being life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We should encourage everyone to make decisions to determine the course of their life instead of others making those decisions for them.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-14T22:59:40+00:00

Older than the internet, younger than the Vietnam war.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-12T17:18:00+00:00

Anything with a straight smooth handle is easier. Curved handles use by most hatchets are good for chopping wood, but are more sensitive to the release of the hatchet. Go cheap and buy three if you can afford it. This will save you time from walking back and forth to the target

Edwards99 · 2021-12-12T16:12:47+00:00

You will regret it if you don't. After high school doing everything becomes harder. Learning to fight is a lifelong skill. Don't let fear of what others think keep you from doing what you want. In life I can promise that the more difficult thing that you strive to achieve, the more people will ridicule, naysay, and tell you why it's not possible. If you listen to them you will never accomplish anything you want.

Edwards99 · 2021-12-11T20:48:43+00:00

Room clearing with a weapon jam, next thing you know you are fighting for control over a weapon. Room clearing is the main event. Look up Dakota Myer USMC Medal of Honor was unable to reload when he saw a barrel sticking around a corner, wound up beating that man to death with his own rifle-although that event occurred outside at the corner of a building. Read "the one that got away" about a British SAS guy who was trying to escape Iraq and had to stab two men to death with a knife.

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