This is an interesting post. In the martial art school I practice the unarmed combat (and the other weapons) are based on sword techniques. This is, as you point out, slightly different but not as different as you might think to the technique that a boxer would use.
To illustrate this, consider when cutting from bottom to top with a sword. To get power behind the cut you need to bend and straighten your legs as the blade arcs upward. The power comes from the legs not the arms. To me this doesn't seem that different from a boxer's upper cut. We have a similar strike to the chin with the palm of the hand (I don't punch with a fist as I have weak, girly knuckles that tend to break on hard surfaces).
I think that the issue with martial sports is that they tend to have the really useful (i.e. dangerous) techniques taken out or modified. If they didn't then you start to run out of people to practice with. You can't really have too many competitions where you can blind, permanently injure your opposition. You also can't talk your way through the bout and then dispatch your opponent when they aren't looking. It's just not cricket.
The problem with all this is that there's always someone tougher than you are out there and you can't watch your back all the time...
Off topic but....
The moral ambivalence is possiblely what I like most about the Sopranos. I like that none of the characters in the show are portrayed as totally "good" or "bad", including the FBI.
In my opinion it's what elevates the show above most dramas on TV.
"Ricing" in quotes, because what you described isn't ricing since you said it could be fast. Ricing a car is making it all show and no go.
Really? I thought the term came from the adding of alcohol, produced using rice, to motorbike fuel in Japan. I belive that this was done to make them go faster
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This is an interesting post. In the martial art school I practice the unarmed combat (and the other weapons) are based on sword techniques. This is, as you point out, slightly different but not as different as you might think to the technique that a boxer would use.
To illustrate this, consider when cutting from bottom to top with a sword. To get power behind the cut you need to bend and straighten your legs as the blade arcs upward. The power comes from the legs not the arms. To me this doesn't seem that different from a boxer's upper cut. We have a similar strike to the chin with the palm of the hand (I don't punch with a fist as I have weak, girly knuckles that tend to break on hard surfaces).
I think that the issue with martial sports is that they tend to have the really useful (i.e. dangerous) techniques taken out or modified. If they didn't then you start to run out of people to practice with. You can't really have too many competitions where you can blind, permanently injure your opposition. You also can't talk your way through the bout and then dispatch your opponent when they aren't looking. It's just not cricket.
The problem with all this is that there's always someone tougher than you are out there and you can't watch your back all the time...
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Off topic but.... The moral ambivalence is possiblely what I like most about the Sopranos. I like that none of the characters in the show are portrayed as totally "good" or "bad", including the FBI. In my opinion it's what elevates the show above most dramas on TV.
You be the judge http://www.remrock.net/remrock/gallery/picture.php ?jpgFile=rem/rem_95_01.jpg&picWidth=555&picHeight= 419/
A bit offtopic but...
Really? I thought the term came from the adding of alcohol, produced using rice, to motorbike fuel in Japan. I belive that this was done to make them go faster
Cadbury isn't American its English. http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolat e/history_cadbury/
This would reduce the need for people to commute as much and the fuel needed to do so.
If less people need to dry to work every day then they might enjoy their weekends more. http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/smoggy.html