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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 668826" data-attributes="member: 6469">Heh, not at all. I loved my karate classes. I went three to four times a week for about six months. Two of those classes were meant for advanced (black & brown) belts but I didn't know and just kept going until one day the sensai said, "Umm... you do realize this is the advanced class, right?" and I was like, "Err... heh, nope... it ain't advertised as such! Can I stay?" and he was ok with it mainly because I'd spent several years beforehand practicing on my own time and my style, in his own words, was "...better than most of his seniors..."The only thing that stopped me was a nervous breakdown and financial ruin. Unfortunately, I haven't gone back since.My comments, however, are related to actual experience in stand-up fights. I've been in five fights where my life depended on the outcome, two of which involved knife-wielding maniacs (and I don't use that term lightly, one was high on amphetimines, the other thought it grand to suck on aerosol cans of paint thinner) who didn't just want to scare me off, but wanted me dead and came after me for that specific purpose.Anyone who knows me from the past on these forums could probably argue that they had justifiable reason <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />As for the comments, re: krav maga, yeah, sure, you 'can't' use them on the street... but I sure as hell would if it came down to it. By the time a fight has gotten to the stage where it's lethal, whether a fist has been thrown or it's still a standoff, to me, there is no in-between, it's kill or be killed, and I'll be damned if I'm the one that's gonna go down...Since I've smacked people in the past who've threatened me, I can only say that cops understand the situation much better than most people give them credit for and the fact of the matter is, is that the matter pretty much starts or goes with them. If they think you used excessive force, then something will be made of it, but if they think you just defended yourself to the best of your abilities and the other guy was just a punk... then most cops I've dealt with would push any complaint the guy had under the rug, 'cause they know he's just a punk and deserved all he got.Oooh, I WANT ONE! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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