understanding concrete.

[Knifefighter]

... but there are still who break legitimately and even some who break unsupported standing on end.

LOL... I have yet to see the guy who does his fancy breaking demo be able to go out in the back and put his hand through a brick wall.

[uki]

Uki seems to talk out of his backside and seems to hide who he is, who he has trained with, and yet seems to know everything when it comes to the martial arts.

things can seem what they are in fact not.

Some of the space cadet comments make me wonder if he uses illegal drugs.

define illegal einstein.

His comments on the cop being killed while he was bouncing showed his true colors.

yeah, people get what they have coming to them.

an angry anti establishment geek who probably could not fight his way out of a paper bag.

i notice you used the term probably because unconsciously deep down in your being you understand i speak the truth. i am a geek and i am anti-establishment... and i'd claw my way out of the bag.

He is the new troll here, and relishes the fact rather than realize the insult it truly carries.

what, can't trolls be martial artists? my you are a discriminating little bald guy aren't you...

I really do not have issues with him personally, just that I abhor people who spout the "I'm a cowardly little skinny stick propaganda" on and on and on when they should post way less and train way more.

how in hades do you know what i do all day knobby? really. how do you personally know what i do all day and how i go about doing it? answer a question for once.

Would love to play push hands with him on his bricks and see what kind of root he has.

i would too... it is called learning and practice. i never claimed to better anyone in this forum.

I can assure you that he will never be able to put his money where his mouth is.

i must admire your confidence.

Uki, Why not come out to the Zhang San Feng Festival where I teach every year and show me some of your wicked cool techniques.

you mean like iron ball juggling and spinning iron bar? sure... so you'd know marilyn cooper, gary torres, pat brady, chris meister, and alan then? i don't pay to hang out and socialize with other high end seeking martial artists... some folks are too concerned about elaborating the ego. the best teachers don't have any students...

I can show you some as well.

your malicious intent is quite obvious.

I would rather train, than post such as yourself.

my entire day is paid training... i am a mason, i work everyday... paid training.

I have been here since the beginning and have fewer posts than most.

most likely because you are too dimwitted to have anything interesting to say.

You have been here months and have almost half the amount.

should i really respond?? okay... because i have lots more to share than you do. iron body and iron shirt have been around for ages... people need something new.

Posting less and training more will do wonders for you.

at this point in the journey... training becomes obsolete...

Good luck in life, as you are obviously going to need it.

well for starters i am way ahead of you considering i am not married... besides, i'm a tiger... luck is my lttle sister.

[Akronviper]

LOL... I have yet to see the guy who does his fancy breaking demo be able to go out in the back and put his hand through a brick wall.

Apples and Oranges, he only needs to break your rib not the front of your house (Anyways the door or window would be easier unless their just showing off).

[uki]

sometimes tearing is more effective than breaking...

[Lucas]

sometimes tearing is more effective than breaking...

i prefer stabbing

[bakxierboxer]

all depending on how it's used.....

All the while thoroughly/"adroitly(?)" (not) avoiding mentioning some word like "Si + Fu"?
(and its (not)antonym "Si + Mui")

[sanjuro_ronin]

I saw a guy once choke out 4 house bricks one handed, just left them laying there in a big pile afterwards, not a one of them woke up... scary...

yes, its an advanced level BJJ move.

[sanjuro_ronin]

LOL... I have yet to see the guy who does his fancy breaking demo be able to go out in the back and put his hand through a brick wall.

You need to read more comic books, they do that all the time.

[bakxierboxer]

yes, its an advanced level BJJ move.

Don't they spell that form of "brick" with a "p"?

[bakxierboxer]

You need to read more comic books, they do that all the time.

Hey!
If he does that, he'll be around even less often than recently........

















Oh.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Hey!
If he does that, he'll be around even less often than recently........

















Oh.

Ah, Dale is a good guy, he knows his stuff, even if he is a tad closed minded.
Its understandable though, he's been around for a long time and the longer you are around the more BS you see.
Jaded and all that.

[bakxierboxer]

Ah, Dale is a good guy, he knows his stuff, even if he is a tad closed minded.

What makes you think that I noticed anything like that?

Its understandable though, he's been around for a long time and the longer you are around the more BS you see.

{snort!}
What makes you think that I noticed anything like that?

Jaded and all that.

I know a little bit about jade(d/s).......

[sanjuro_ronin]

Actually, this is a very interesting point, how can one be assured of consistant "tensile strength" in the objects ones choose to break?
Heck, even bodies are consistent so does it matter?
Not really, but for arguments sake I will take the engineers "tensile strength" gauge to the local Home depot and measure out some of their patio stones, just for ****s and giggles and let you guys know.

Ok, so I went over to the local HD, I brought over on of our tensile stength gauges ( the smallest and cheapest one was the only one they let me take, but it measures up to 1000 psi so it should be more than adequate).
I got 10 pieces of those red 2 x 8 x 16 slabs.
I measured them lying on the floor then I got 2 cinder blocks and measured them suspended between the 2 blocks as one would have them for a break.
All but 1 took the max 1000psi rating on the gauge, in both tests.
I then asked the HD guy that was with me if it was OK if I broke the weak one and one of the other ones to see the difference, he said sure and asked if I needed a hammer, I told him in my besy Chicano voice:
I don't need no stinking hammer !
( By this time we are joined by another HD guy and 2 spectators)
I slap the week one and it breaks, I then place the other one and slap it, it breaks and there wasn't much difference in "give", but to be truthful that doesn't mean much.
The aggregate inside them looked the same so you really can't tell visually why one was "weaker" than the other.

[TenTigers]

All the while thoroughly/"adroitly(?)" (not) avoiding mentioning some word like "Si + Fu"?
(and its (not)antonym "Si + Mui")

different character(hanji), same sound. In this case, fu means father, but it is not the character for man.

[SimonM]

Uki makes a serious mistake - the mistake of assuming that participation in a counter-culture ultimately equates to a challenge to the status quo.

What I came to realize is that the formation of fashion-based counter cultures (as hippies, goths, and punks ultimately are expressions of fashion more than meaning) was actually a re-inforcement of the status quo. When people have culturally accepted forms of rebellion they get caught up believing they are DOing something important when all they are really doing is BUYing something.

The first prerequisite for true subversion of the establishment is reason.
Reason leads to scepticism. This provides us with the basis to think clearly about what must be DONE.

As an example:

Like Uki I question the veracity of law. This is because I challenge the veracity of natural law. As all law is of human origin it is bound by the same flaws that bind all human endeavor. We are not perfect; our laws are likewise not perfect. However, unlike Uki, I don't respond with a knee-jerk disobedience to law either. Some laws are very valid. Others are not. I will disregard laws when my reason, tempered by compassion, tells me that the law is flawed. I will not flaunt laws nor will I attack police officers who are simply people doing a job... one rather necessary in a society of specialists.

Uki: you are a tool. Literally. The very jerks you believe you rebel against are using you to shape people's impression of how they should rebel and to simultaneously discredit the dissident voices of society because it's easy to disregard flakes who believe that men in black are hiding the flying saucers because they are a sign that the world will end when a rogue planet soars through the solar system during a galactic alignment on dec. 21, 2012 or some other such nonsense.

Dale: you are also a tool. Haven't you learned yet that crying "coward" in an online martial arts forum lacks any sort of validity or class. Are you trying to provoke Uki into an e-challenge so that, when he inevitably doesn't show, you can taunt him further for that? Because that is what it looks like. And the old provoking an e-challenge tack is stale. And it doesn't prove you are hard. There are videos available of you taking shots. Those have been critiqued and you have supported their veracity adequately for a lot of people here on the forum to accept that you appear to be, at the very least, able to take a shot. That does not put you beyond all reproach though and you are doing some seriously uncool mouth boxing.