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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 684384" data-attributes="member: 5171">Re: Why is it...So you didn't read the part where I said that taking Kenpo made me realize how fundamentally chaotic any fight is going to be, as well as the damage that I could do, and caused me to walk away from or avoid most fights?  There've been situations where I knew that if I hadn't taken Kenpo, I'd have been scared or angry enough to get into a fight.  My training got me to walk away, because I don't have my ego wrapped around beating people up.Again, you don't really know what you're talking about.My school teaches us how to defend against guns, knives, and clubs.  The first lesson is "Run".  We're taught to give up our wallets without hesitation -- and, in fact, to throw them to the ground and then run like hell when they look away.Our teacher basically said, "Your wallet isn't worth your life.  If you think that you can give them your wallet and they'll leave you alone, give them your wallet.  But if you think that they're going to kill you no matter what -- if they try to get you to come into an alley or get into a car and you have the gut feeling that they're going to kill you -- then fight."  A variation of the same thing was used to talk to women in the adult class about dealing with would-be rapists.  Survive first, fight if you have an opportunity.So perhaps you'd like to actually study an art that teaches this kind of stuff before you decide that it's just teaching us to kick the guns out of people's hands and stuff.Darius, Kail:My school has some good pressure point stuff already, although it's not taught as such.  We do a lot of key strikes (um, striking with the knuckle of the middle finger) and spear-hands and things like that.  Looking through an acupuncture book, it was fun to see how much we already had just by having good techniques.  It's also really neat to be at a level where I can really understand what a technique was teaching me.  There are techniques that I thought were dangerous or impractical, but now that I can see what they do with body positioning, checking, and pressure points, I love 'em.  That's fun.Read the Dillman, liked it.  Planning on going back to it.As for the meditation and such -- I occasionally feel as though my hands are suddenly heavier and warmer, but I don't get any kind of "waking up from having my hands asleep" feeling, if that's what you mean.  I've felt a cool energy flow a few times when meditating right before a workout, and I think I know what you're talking about there.  In any event, I plan to see how the Reiki goes and try to incorporate it -- I can already get rid of the average headache for a friend using the stuff I picked up on my own, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the attunement process does.-Tacky</blockquote>

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