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ShaolinTiger00
08-02-2004, 02:03 PM
Article (http://martialarts.jameshom.com/library/weekly/aa021201a.htm)
Fu-Pow
08-02-2004, 02:45 PM
Neat article
Oso
08-02-2004, 03:58 PM
I've always subcribed to this ethos

Avoid
Evade
Control
Control w/ Pain (yes, that's been talked about here but let it stand for now.)
Maim
Kill




seems the same to me.
Goldenmane
08-02-2004, 11:25 PM
He's a nice bloke, James is. He used to have my current job.

He'll be pleased to hear that someone posted a link to one of his articles here. :)
ShaolinTiger00
08-03-2004, 07:29 AM
thanks.
David Jamieson
08-03-2004, 09:00 AM
seems the same to me.

Well it is.

But people remake movies to move them forward in time. :p

Old songs are rearranged everyday and ultimately..."The medium is the message".

As a meme, it's not such a bad one to bring forward.

If you look at the extreme ends of the concept, it is common sense.

I.E one doesn't lay the smackdown heavy on someone right out the gate because they glanced at you funny. That sort of behaviour is psychopathic or sociopathic in the least.
scotty1
08-03-2004, 09:35 AM
It does seem like applied common sense.
red5angel
08-03-2004, 10:35 AM
dang, I thought it was a primer on the use of force lightning, something I haven't quite mastered yet as I make my way to the dark side.
Goldenmane
08-04-2004, 05:37 AM
I've found that most things, when it comes to fighting, really come down to applied common sense.. not that such sense is all that common.
cerebus
08-04-2004, 05:44 AM
Avoid rather than hurt
Hurt rather than maim
Maim rather than cripple
And cripple rather than kill, for all life is precious nor can any be replaced.

-Old martial arts saying often attributed to Shaolin.
Goldenmane
08-04-2004, 06:01 AM
...and one I disagree with.

But that's probably just me.
cerebus
08-04-2004, 06:06 AM
Well, there's also:
"Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out!"

-old military saying.
Oso
08-04-2004, 08:56 AM
KL, just found it cool that they were so similar.
David Jamieson
08-04-2004, 09:22 AM
oso- i understand :)

I think it is interesting how the old becomes new and how the only things that are really new are those that are so old they are out of conventional memory.

well, barring alien technology and what not. heh heh...but i've said too much now...run!
Oso
08-04-2004, 09:36 AM
even more interesting that ST00 posted something he apparently liked that has a parallel in TCMA.

:)
David Jamieson
08-04-2004, 10:15 AM
as long as you call it a jab and not yut gi choy, most mmaists will give buy in to trad martial arts. :-)