It's all very simple

"Move.......or......die"


"1..........2.......3"

"Past..........present........future"


(But quite difficult to do).

Fri, Feb 22, 2008

"TEN suspects in a Tampines knife attack that left a 19-year-old boy with a gaping wound in his forearm a week ago were caught after a 30-hour police operation on Thursday.

And it turned out that the youths, aged between 14 and 22, are believed to be behind at least three cases of rioting with deadly weapons in Simei, Pasir Ris and Tampines between Feb 10 and 18 2008, said police in a statement on Friday.

Seized from them were two daggers, three long bread knives and a parang."

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The other day someone asked me why I bother to train to deal with knives and parangs.

"After all, I just take out a gun to shoot you, and that's it!"

Ok, so let me see you take out your gun in Singapore. Not very likely.

On the other hand, it is close to impossible to prevent anyone from carrying knives in any country. Kitchen implements can't be banned.

I don't need to teach you how to use a knife to kill or hurt somebody, that act of killing and maiming can be done by any Tom, Dick or Harry. What I train is to respond appropriately to an attack by someone armed with a weapon.

Why not just train in the empty hands?
That is because in the real world, if someone is upset with me and wants to do me harm, they are not going to train for 6 months in a Muay Thai gym before coming after me. What they will do, is to go to NTUC Fairprice and buy a $3 knife, and come after me.

Can I respond appropriately when I am attacked with a weapon? That is the question on my mind.

The Key

I finally understand the key, after 2 years.

The is the trunk, and there are the branches, and there are the fruits of combat.

I knew what the key was, but I couldn't do it.
I couldn't understand why I couldn't do it, even though I knew what it was.

But now I understand it, and I can do it, and I can teach others how to do it. Without the key, all the techniques will not work as effectively.

With the key, all the techniques will work like magic.

I must be one of the slowest Bahad Zubu students around :-)

Training Dec

Because he is your friend, you hug him and put your head next to his.
Because he is your friend, you hug his knee with both hands.
Because your grandmaster is a "crazy" master, you do bathing.
Because your grandmaster does not like martial arts, you do dancing.
Step, anticipate, step, anticipate, step. Heel and toe, heel and toe, heel and toe.

Knife attacks in Singapore

Although Singapore is one of the the world's safest cities, and its citizens and visitors enjoy a great sense of security when walking around the streets, sometimes a few criminal elements cause harm to people.

In the following article, which was published in The New Paper, a local Singaporean newspaper, on Nov 7 2007, you get to read for yourself the horrific facts about the way in which some criminals attack others. This article was written by Kor Kian Beng.

(Start of article)

'They came out of nowhere'

THE parang attack ended as swiftly as it had begun.

In less than five minutes, the attackers had fled the scene after pouncing on a group of seven friends.

The silence was telling too. It was as if the gang of around eight male attackers was focused on just slashing their victims.

One victim said the attackers were so quiet that all he could hear was the sounds of parangs slicing their bodies.

But the ferocity of the attack was never in doubt.

It left two victims lying in a pool of their own blood.

One had his left hand nearly chopped off - he "could feel it dangling".

Another victim managed to flee the scene, but not before getting a deep cut that stretched from his right ear to his mouth.

A fourth man and the three women who were with them escaped unharmed.

All three victims, men in their mid-20s, survived the vicious attack, which happened outside Liang Court shopping complex near Clarke Quay at about 4am on Sunday.

It was the latest in a string of similar horrific incidents.

The trio, who are colleagues at a pest control company, and their family members declined to be identified when The New Paper spoke to them in hospital.

All three victims claimed the attack had been unprovoked and that neither they nor their friends had offended anyone recently.

They also insisted they had not stepped on anyone's toes while partying at the nearby Ministry of Sound (MOS) on Saturday night, shortly before they were attacked.

Other knife and blade attacks on victims in Singapore in 2007

• Bar manager Eugene Chua, 31, beaten up after leaving a pub at Clarke Quay on 23 Apr. He died two days later. Three women and two men have been jailed for the attack.
• Five friends attacked by seven parang-wielding men at the void deck of Block 13, Eunos Crescent on 7 Sep. They suffered injuries to head, stomach and hands.
• On the same day, a 17-year-old was attacked by six parang-wielding men at the void deck of Block 463, Tampines Street 44. He suffered injuries on head, back and shoulder.
• An 18-year-old attacked by three parang-wielding men near Block 159, Tampines Street 12 on 15 Jun. He suffered hand injuries.
• Mr Zainal Nek, 46, died after being attacked by a motorcycle gang near a Central Square nightspot on 17 Sep last year. Six men have been jailed for the attack.

For more details of the horrific attack, get your copy of The New Paper today.

(End of article)

The way I look at it is -- it doesn't take any training for a person to pick up a kitchen knife from a supermarket, and kill or seriously injure the common man. Therefore, training a person does not make him a killer, since training is not a necessary component for killing somebody.

However, in order to respond appropriately to an attack, takes some training and common sense.

Train hard and train often! (with understanding....)

Footwork!

"Footwork!"
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(No response)
POW!




"Footwork!"
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(Footwork)
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"Good!"

Special training this Friday

Welcome to Guro Jon Chan, who has been training under Gm Yuli Romo for 8 years. We look forward to training with him soon!