Recent content by Wyes

I just wanted to point out that while this is true, it isn't the whole picture. You can do interaction-free measurements and you still mess with the system. This is because the method of measurement isn't what matters, it's the fundamental act of measurement itself (which is even weirder)...

I never had any issues with stealth in Metro? Just remember that 'silent' guns aren't silent, enemies can still hear them within a small radius. The exceptions are the throwing knives and pneumatic guns. The throwing knives can be stopped by armour though. Otherwise, I found I could still do...

It really, really depends on how you train. While it's kind of true you can never really train for a street fight/self-defense scenario without just getting into that situation all the time, there are plenty of training methods out there that can help. Now, most modern martial arts schools...

Which is why you should look for an art that tries to simulate this as close as possible (if that's what you're looking for).

Maybe, but there's also just a lot more bad martial arts schools out there than good, in my experience. The more popular a style is, the more likely there are to be bad schools. I have (thankfully) only been in a small number of (minor) self-defense situations, before I started training...

I didn't really want to address this because it's not always a side of martial arts that people want to talk about, but it does exist. Martial arts are, by definition, martial. With very few exceptions, any martial art that's been around for a while was designed to let you disable or kill...

Indeed. If we continue it shouldn't be here. I was trying to avoid the gun-control debate but I didn't do a very good job of it.

You misunderstand me - my point was not that the Hemingway source was valid, but that the NRA are no more likely to be unbiased. They clearly have a vested interest. This is not me saying that the NRA are lying about Hemingway, it's me saying that they have no reason to promote any valid...

Look, I'm not interested in getting into a debate about this, there would be no point, so I'll say two things and leave it at that; 1. Why would I trust a biased source from the NRA anyway? Maybe this Hemingway chap is biased too, but I have no reason to believe an NRA source wouldn't be just...

Point 1: Really? http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/ Still, even if that is not the case (this was just from a brief google, I certainly haven't done in-depth research on it so I may be very much wrong), guns are not legal to carry in...

To be honest I find the idea of guns for the purposes of self-defence lacking regardless (most of the time you have to defend yourself from a serious threat, you don't have the luxury of drawing your weapon first, and I'm hardly the first person to point this out). My point though is mostly that...

The issue with those arts is not the arts themselves, but that there's very few people out there training them in a fashion useful for anything besides tournament fighting. Out of curiosity, why do you feel a striking art is more appropriate for self-defence? You said yourself that...

Why are we playing 'who's got the bigger martial arts penis'? It's a stupid game, nobody wins.

As a fellow swordsman, I completely disagree with this. Knives scare me a lot more than swords do - they're easy to conceal, they're easy to deceive with, and even a dumb brute can completely mess with what most places are teaching as knife defence. Unfortunately this is only possible in a...

You framed that much better than I did. Kicks, cuts, thrusts... testicles were not made to endure such things.