Bhajneet

yeah, that makes much more sense, haha. i was definitely just reading it wrong.

but now that naam jap mentioned it, where do the mythical thingies come form? the hindu relgion or..?

{edited by user}

{edited by user}

{edited by user}

I'm sorry if this was already stated, but i read the first page and just wanted to say that I personally know the person who is making this. A very nice fellow and yes all the money he makes will be used to help him make another movie.

I mean come on, the poor guy just invested a lot of money to help sikhi, not let all the money go to waste!

{edited by user}

Tru dat mate!

i see.

one i can't take that to school.. heh

and two: that's just dishonorable.. other guy dont have one, i want a fair fight even if the other guy is doing something wrong.

and it helps reaction times

But anyways, I'm still gonna be doing some martial arts just for everyday uses like a fight in school, or..... new york, haha.

Pretty pointless being a nihang if you dont know how to ride a horse.

96600[/snapback]

pretty pointless being a nihang who can ride a horse in modern times though. I mean sure, its great you can do it, but why's it matter? I understand that traditionally they used to ride horses into battle, but seeing as we don't ride horses anymore, why would it matter?

And even a lone person with a simple bow could kill the horse that the nihang was riding on.

I'm pretty sure that a horse rider can be defeated by a lone person on the ground. And i don't see how you HAVE to ride a horse to be a nihang.

Understanding Violence

Since June 1996, I have interviewed hundreds of survivors of violent attacks. They are a diverse lot: from Iggy, who tends to wind up in the wrong place at the wrong time, to Betty, a secretary who witnessed a fight between two huge young women on the sidewalk beneath her office window.

Interview notes were transferred to a graph-paper index and used to answer eight to 42 questions, depending on the complexity and intensity of the encounter.

As of January 2000, I had recorded 1,600 incidents and done a statistical breakdown of the first 1,000. The edged-weapon stats presented in this article are derived from 256 such encounters involving 512 parties and constituting 275 uses. (Note: Three men stabbing one man equals one act, two parties and three uses.) The following statistics were gleaned from the study:

40 percent of all acts of violence involve a weapon

27 percent of armed encounters involve a firearm.

44 percent of armed encounters involve one of a host of improvised - and mostly blunt - weapons. The most common is a beer bottle; the most injurious is a baseball bat, pipe or two-by-four; and the most deadly is an automobile. Most martial arts training is more useful against high-commitment blunt, weapons than against firearms and edged weapons.

11 percent of all violence and 29 percent of armed encounters involve a knife or knife-like weapon such as a razor or shank. Although these are the preferred weapons of the lone male felon, their practical application is the least understood of all. Knives are also among the most deadly of weapons.

For the purpose of this study, I have ranked edged weapons from most to least common:

knives (including fixed and folding blades)

razors

shanks (prison-made stabbing weapons)

swords (including oversized knives and edged tools)

The complete study encompasses 50 photos, 100 stories and 737 statistics. Compressing this information into an article would either distort the picture or put the reader to sleep. So instead of abridging the study here, I will answer the blade-fighting questions posed by eight Black Belt readers in hopes that they might address the concerns of thousands more.

Im not stating that wrestling shouldnt be done, your martial arts should combine aspects of distance striking, close combat, wrestling, grappling, counters, locks and weapons, wrestling alone will not make you a complete fighter.

Totally dude, this is the list i have so far:

Distance Striking - Kick Boxing

Close Combat - Muay/Thai Boxing

Wrestling - Jiu-Jitsu

but i dont know about counters or locks and weapons (prolly cause i have no idea what your talking about )

And i think we should just stop calling it martial art and change it to martial arts

On a side note. Have any UK nangs or nihangs ever ridden a horse ? I bet closest most have got is donkeys at the seaside. One key thing for Nihang is to be able to fight whilst riding. I bet the UK nihang/nangs could not tell difference between a Marwari, Arabian or Thoroughbred let alone ride one.

Umm.. what kind of side note is that?! One, i was interested in self-defense or coming to the aid of someone else's defense which is how this whole topic started. And two, thats just mean... i mean that is just hitting on some other human, think about it man, same blood, treat your veer jee with a bit more respect. This goes for more than just kurtas, some of y'all beating down on Niddar. I don't personally know him so i can't judge him, but why don't we all just keep our judgements to ourselves?

and to All-Info i don't know if you got this or not but yh, i am living in the states.

About conditioning though, should i do anything before i go to a school? or will they tell me what i should have to do and just lay back until then?

thanks for all the info, its good! keep it coming guys!

Let's be logical: If we had the shastar vidya millions of years ago our primal instinct would have been to take over the world (since no one could stand up to it), so why is it that we didn't?

all martial arts stem fromt hat

thas the oirginal and unspolied version

96324[/snapback]

Err.. Jiu-Jitsu (or known as the "gentle art") is one of the oldest forms of martial arts and it originated in India like 2000 years before Christ. It was for when the monks who could not use any weapons to defend their lives agains the barbarians. Then it spread through China and then was modified in Japan where it became the first martial arts style. The samurai clans adopted Jiu-Jitsu as their traditional style to defeat an opponent regardless of what technique (striking, grappling, throwing) then they split this technique which developed into judo, akido, karate, et cetera.

Yes, i live in MIchigan (next to the big lakes on the map), but i don't think my parents will fly me to England any time soon to learn some l33t skillz.

Okay, i did some looking into on the subject of grappling and i'm quite impressed. Apparently the main ones are Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Thai/Muay Boxing (which really confused me because of the word "boxing" but is actually just a standing-up grappling technique).

Then there is akido (which i saw mentioned here) as a form of Jiu Jitsu and such.

I have also agreed that one should learn a mix of techniques (grappling, far away, close up, any others?)

However I have finnally found my issue: There is no where i can go to learn! I live in MI and no where close by teaches the stuff i wanted to learn. So maybe this summer i'll have to go to NJ or somewhere???

so the whole soft-weapons was overkill, heh.

Thanks a bunch on that stuff (now i just have to find an instructor)

i think you got the wrong impression, i mean like....... did htey just push people in a lotta places and wait for them to die?

so how did the indians find this? or was it Guru Jee who gave it to us?

that's very scary, and even scarier is that fact that there are people out there that know them......... WHAT REALLY SCARES ME THOUGH is that the person can hit it precisely........ i mean....... it can't be that big can it?

guess Uncle Ben was right:

With great powers comes a great responsibility (or something)

I'll have to take my martial arts seriously then, not as a fanatic.

!!!

pressure points, meaning as in like accupressure? and some of these things are fatal?

*touches self*

Like...... is it supposed to be a certain nerve that you can cut or depress?

weird. they wouldn't even let me take a sooaa in my tachee...................

i would definitely do so, or if possible have THEM mail it to your house.

and is a shastar basically like a knife without the handle tied to a string?