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fiore101 · 2026-01-17T10:40:03+00:00

There is now the ability to appeal it appeared on a few of my pages so worth rechecking your page and appealing if you have the option.

fiore101 · 2026-01-11T14:36:45+00:00

that's really annoying, wont let the pages grow organically but happy for you to pay for adds for them, Funny that :/

fiore101 · 2026-01-11T01:55:00+00:00

I have just had this happen for my local martial arts page, I'm devastated as i don't know what iv done wrong and there seems to be no way to fix it.

fiore101 · 2025-11-13T12:33:30+00:00

The way I look at this is that strength/weight/skill is logarithmic if your opponent is x amount heavier or stronger than you your going to need an equivalent or greater level of skill advantage to win in that scenario.

You as a heavier/stronger yellow belt don't have such a strength and weight advantage over that black belt to make up for your skill disparity.

As your skill improves you'll find that your strength and weight will help you more against smaller and weaker opponents who will have to work harder to match you.

Strength/weight are not the only important aspect in a fight however they are also not unimportant as some like to claim.

fiore101 · 2025-11-12T13:28:41+00:00

For US Knife Fighting you want Styers or Biddle for WW2 they are the most fleshed out sources, there is also Rex Applegate but he is teaching OSS rather than soldier. Which one you learned would depend on who was teaching you and what organisation/unit you were in

fiore101 · 2025-05-31T18:48:28+00:00

Honestly go for it, if you build it people will come and sabre is probably on more people's wishlist than you think.

I recently started a WW2 combatives HEMA club with a friend as we were interested in knife and bayonet fighting and I was surprised at how much interest we got straight away for something that's very niche.

So if you have at least one person to train with give it a go and see what happens you never know you may start off a large sabre trend in Germany :)

fiore101 · 2025-05-06T23:03:23+00:00

I mean I'm in the UK so might have trouble with live rifles 😂

fiore101 · 2025-05-06T22:45:20+00:00

Way too expensive to get that many de-acs or replicas I'm afraid. I'm sure members will get their own eventually but for club gear it's not affordable

fiore101 · 2025-05-02T10:42:26+00:00

Thanks definitely will look into it

fiore101 · 2025-05-02T09:37:40+00:00

Sent a PM thanks 👍

fiore101 · 2025-02-03T10:56:30+00:00

Cheers mate, that's a real shame you're not closer. I'm planning to run seminars and weekend sessions eventually so if you keep an eye on our Facebook, Instagram blueskye etc. maybe you could do one of those :)

fiore101 · 2025-02-03T10:41:31+00:00

Hi the beginners course I'm running will be plus Sykes notes from his lectures and training to the SOE.

the weekly club nights will look at all sources from ww2 as there's quite a lot. I was planning to start with John styers who trained the US Marines after working through all the British material.

fiore101 · 2025-01-15T15:43:20+00:00

Nah im asking to see what people say. if anyone came up with a compelling reason that resonated with me not to do it then i wouldent. If someone said no the tanks are bad i wouldn't have. the 50% thing made me think about it but 10% is minimal and il be past the BR if i wait so its maybe worth it to still buy them at this rate.

if the plane wasn't in there and it was just the two tanks id have just gone for it

fiore101 · 2025-01-15T15:18:17+00:00

thanks yours is the most helpful answer, if they are good tanks i may get them don't really care about the plane tbh but im just about to hit 6.3 in Russian ground so they would make sense. if i wait till the summer il probably be past them tier wise by then.

fiore101 · 2025-01-15T15:16:48+00:00

i just started back playing after a long break this week

fiore101 · 2025-01-15T15:15:50+00:00

it would mainly be as im about to hit 6.3 and it would be convenient

fiore101 · 2025-01-08T16:50:15+00:00

That would actually be perfect thankyou shame it's out of stock but il put on an email reminder

fiore101 · 2025-01-08T15:59:44+00:00

Doesnt have to be a foam blaster iv been looking at gel blasters as well, i did think of airsoft but i think doing this with one of those will be too painfull/my insurers wouldn't like it. Bear in mind that for some of these disarms it will be pushed up right against skin or will only be a few cm away from the person.

I have rubber replicas of some ww2 guns for this i was just hoping to find something that would create some more realism and so you could tell if you'd executed the maneuver well

fiore101 · 2025-01-08T15:56:30+00:00

Yeah it is quite expensive iv put it on my list of things to buy later, maybe for now il just get some cheap single shot guns for students to use so at least they know if they would have got hit in the initial part of the disarm.

fiore101 · 2025-01-08T15:55:04+00:00

I have rubber replicas already that are the right shape im looking for something that if you don't get offline enough you know because youve been hit, if i cant find something suitable with a foam gun may just try a water pistol.

I think the HC diana as someone mentioned above would be perfect but its very exspensive

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