[razor840]

Well, I do work at a pizza shop and I have to deliver late at night. I've had some close calls in the past with would-be muggers. We have several public housing areas and every once in awhile there are delivery driver robberies. I got in a fist fight with a guy one time and another time, someone threatened me with an empty forty ounce bottle of beer. Also, like I alluded to in my earlier post, the meth problem around here has gotten pretty serious and in the rust belt, there isn't enough money for the police we need. I've actually been training BJJ off and on for a couple of years now but I haven't been able to find any boxing, thai boxing, krav maga, or any kind of legit stand up places to work at (I'm not saying they don't exist but I haven't been able to find them). So really, I've decided to lean on guns and knives as self defence options but I know they're really just one part of the puzzle. I'm in Law School as well, so hopefully I won't have to stay in a bad neighborhood forever.

I hope none of the heroes that post here who have been gallantly defending our freedoms in Iraq and in our other wars against terror don't think that I was making light of their situations. I certainly wasn't. I don't know anything first hand but I know that it must be hell over there and you're all heroes. I still feel that is a great deal of danger out there, right in your backyard, and it pays to be ready.

Of the four or five fights I have been unfortunate enough to stumble into, all but one of them went to the ground and in two or three of those, there were several people involved on both sides. My basic question was more about your general strategy when involved in a street confrontation and I apologize for garbling the hell out of my post and sounding somewhat psychotic. It was really more of a semantic/grammar problem and I apologize.

I know of kali and escrema but there aren't any places to train those around here so I just thought that maybe some people might have some philosophies about how to mold self defence and BJJ together in a cogent way, or just their personal philsophy on the matter.

Any way, I just want to apologize again for the bad post.

[pittfrog]

Get yourself the kevlar vest, and buy a sword from those guys on late night TV with the Southern accents. You'll be able to tell the quality blades with the one true test of a fine sword: log chopping.

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