Car-crash Kung Fu

[Ray Pina]

Experienced how training comes in usefull all the time last night.

Was coming back from dinner with my new girl last night and some dope infront of me slows down and starts to turn left, I bare right a bit and contiue on my way. OUr of nowhere the guy decides to cut back right but I saw him but knew by his actions he didn't see me. Here's where training comes in:

1) was aware of his actions in relation to mine.

2) cut the wheel to absorb his entry into my space a smuch as possible.

3) left hand on wheel absorbed my body movement in Peach Palm type fashion.

4) right hand absorbed girlfriend's body movement in a similiar, try to collapse me and I'll move a bit and spring back fashion.

5) stayed calm in the face of all this, and actually saw it all in the throw-down slow motion associated with combat.

Immediately I thought of that article someone posted here about knife fighting, and studies about tunnel vission. I was in a tunnel vision state (heard less but focused visually) but the tunnel was broad, I wa spretty aware of everything.

Well, all that's left not if the insurance fight. I'm being pegged at passing on the right (true) because he can't "remember, it happened so fast" about turning left first. The kicker: poor man's $2,000 deductable. Good thing I don't rely on my car to get girls.

But I feel training helped this situation. I always train when stepping off curbs (hang time) and opening doors and what not and feel disapointed in times like when my teacher was able to lift my pocket knife from me without knowing. I felt kind of stupid when he handed it to me with the look of, "What type of martial artist are you that you lose your weapon."


One with lots more to learn....

Peace all
Ray

[fa_jing]

It's amazing how quickly and clearly one's mind can make decisions when the situation demands it.

[David Jamieson]

well that's good taht no one was seriously injured.

defensive driving will give you better awareness on the road than any martial arts system will in my opinion.

You should always have a 2 to 5 second gap between you and the car in fron of you. This allows for you to reacty to situations like this with 0 damage incurred.

Being a motorcyclist myself, I am in a hyper-aware state when I'm out riding. You have to be, people have a tendency to become duller witted when driving a car in comfort, listening to the radio, looking around, one hand on the wheel, cell phone, eating while driving etc etc. ON a bike, there's just you, the machine and the road. A much purer experience with the road. Plus you must take full responsibility for yourself on a bike. Even when you have the right of way you lose the battle against the cage driver.

You cannot win on a bike, so your best defense is awareness.
Everyone is your enemy when you are on a motorcycle.

cheers

[GeneChing]

I have the sense that over time, there have been a lot of these coming up in the news feed - cars crashing into martial arts studios. I think I've posted one or two before, but I'm not sure where, and I've ignored many over the last few years. So I'm going to poach this thread to post these, just to see if it's a 'thing'.

Car crashes into martial arts building
POSTED:APR 20 2016 09:33AM EDT
UPDATED:APR 20 2016 09:33AM EDT
ORANGE CO., Fla. -

A car slams into a martial arts building on Edgewater Drive in Orange County early Wednesday morning.

Florida Highway Patrol tells FOX 35 that the car was stolen and the suspect used a screwdriver to start it.

The suspect fled the scene and is still at large.

Thankfully no injuries were reported and there was only minor damage to the building.

Check back for updates to this developing story.

[GeneChing]

2 people injured, Chicopee martial arts school damaged in car crash

By Jeanette DeForge | jdeforge@repub.com
on September 16, 2016 at 10:32 AM

CHICOPEE – Two people were injured and a martial arts school was damaged in a Thursday night accident at the intersection of East and Carew streets.

The driver and a passenger of one car were brought to the hospital by ambulance with non-life threatening injuries. One driver was also cited for failing to stop for a red light, said Michael Wilk, public information officer for Chicopee Police.

The accident happened around 9:20 p.m. when the operator of a Chevrolet Trailblazer failed to stop at a red light and collided with a Toyota Corolla. The impact sent both vehicles careening into the Kung Fu Academy building, 551 East St., he said.

"The building did sustain some damage," he said.

I knew there would be another eventually.

[GeneChing]

This time, with chips.

Frito-Lay truck plows into Danielson martial arts studio
Tuesday
Posted Nov 22, 2016 at 7:36 AM
Updated Nov 22, 2016 at 2:03 PM

By John Penney
jpenney@norwichbulletin.com, (860) 857-6965



DANIELSON - A box truck slammed into a Danielson martial arts studio early Tuesday morning causing major structural damage to the building.

At approximately 4:45 a.m. firefighters responded to the Danielson Martial Arts Academy at 30 Wauregan Road after a Frito-Lay truck slammed into the front of a garage attached to the structure, South Killingly Fire Department Capt. Joseph Lee said.

“The driver was able to get out and suffered minor injuries,” he said. “But it looks like there’s heavy damage to the building, which was unoccupied.”

According to a state police report, Jewett City resident Robert Morano was driving the Frito-Lay truck south on Wauregan Road when he crossed into the northbound lane, striking a parked Ford Ranger before hitting the building. Police said Morano was taken to The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich for evaluation.

Donald Laperle, who owns the building and the martial arts business, said he received a call at approximately 5 a.m. from his son, a local volunteer firefighter, about the crash.

"I used to have a welding business here and now use the bays to store a race car and a backhoe," he said. "By the time I got here, the driver had already been taken to the hospital."

[Orion Paximus]

This time, with chips.

Hopefully Myagi had a lesson called "grout the block"