More good stuff from Ollie Batts. Defensive use of cane:
Also check out Glen Doyle’s Shillelagh work:
To see more of Glen Doyle’s work, check out byyon’s YouTube channel.
Month: November 2009
Oon Hak Hyung – Marlin Sims
Master Marlin Sims of the United Martial Science Federation (formerly of WKSA)
Compare to Master Sung Jin Suh’s interpretation. Both are valid, and knowing Master Sims, the power you see in the form is very much in line with his style of things.
Simple(r) Interface Design
Firearms instructor John Farnam writes about training experiences with particular pistols (with a follow-up article here). There are certain pistols that have external hammers but those pistols must be carried with the hammer decocked, such as the SIG 226, Beretta’s, H&K’s, etc.; to carry with them cocked is dangerous. What happened was experienced shooters were reholstering their cocked guns and didn’t realize it until an instructor pointed it out.
If well-trained people can forget….
IMHO, decockers add complexity. If I think about it from an engineering design standpoint, and more specifically thinking about the “user interface” to a pistol, decockers are a design feature that is more complex than it needs to be. Granted that’s part of the point, when you consider the evolution of where these guns came from, but it no longer has to be the case. When you have guns like Glocks, Smith & Wesson M&P, Springfield XD, and so on, they provide a much simpler user interface. You’ll also see that other manufacturers are moving towards similar designs. Evolution.
Read my write-up on choosing a gun for more details.
An Interview with KR Training’s Karl Rehn
Karl Rehn, the “KR” of KR Training, is my primary firearms instructor and an all-around swell guy. I find via Linoge an interview with Karl regarding the Ft. Hood shootings. Worth a read.
Sonny Umpad: Kali & Escrima Master
Courtesy of Low Tech Combat, Sonny Umpad: Kali & Escrima Master:
Been meaning to post that for a while.
Thank You
To folks like my father, my uncle, my brother-in-law, my father-in-law, and all those who have and do serve, thank you.
La la la
Something happened to me this past weekend. I have no idea exactly what caused it, but I woke up Sunday morning sore all over.
There was nothing particularly strenuous about the match. I did notice my quadraceps were sore so I chalked everything up to just muscle soreness.
Well, since then the pain has been pretty ugly. When breathing is difficult, when a burp causes you to yell out in pain because of how the muscles in your chest suddenly contracted, when you can’t sleep because of the intense pain… something’s wrong. Every other bit of soreness went away but this just lingered at about the same rate. I started to wonder if I cracked a rib; don’t know how that would have happened, but given the pain did seem to run exactly along some rib paths well… let’s see the doctor.
Doc checks me out. He’s checks for a lot of things but nothing really makes sense. He didn’t believe it was cracked or broken. So he wanted to do a few tests to rule out some other low-hanging fruit. But for now he thinks it’s just some really tight and sore muscles and prescribed some muscle relaxers.
Let me tell you… that stuff is… relaxing. 😉
So blogging hasn’t really happened today because I’m just too relaxed. Not loopy, but certainly sleepy. My brain wants to move at 100 miles and hour, but my body is content to just drag itself along. I’m motivated mentally, but physically… meh.
I’ll try to blog more tomorrow.
Blarg
Busy.
Lost time because of a doctor’s appointment. I’ve been in some serious pain since Sunday. Thought it might have been a cracked rib, doctor doesn’t think so (so no x-rays). Prescribed me some muscle relaxers and some tests are being run. We’ll see.
Meantime, I hope to be back here later.
It’s so good….
…. it’s criminal (potentially)
More about the iPhone dying
I mentioned how on Sunday my iPhone died, apparently of sudden and complete battery drain.
I’m still mystified as to why, but a friend read my blog posting and said he knew of two similar experiences. He said he believed the culprit at the time was a game called “Stick Wars Lite“. Funny he should mention that!
I was going to pick up foo.c to take him to the IPSC match but I arrived very early and didn’t know if he’d be up and about yet, so I pulled into a nearby strip mall parking lot and started to fiddle on my iPhone. To my surprise, foo.c pulled in next to me because he wa coming to grab some breakfast. I got out of the car and went into the shop with him. All this time the iPhone was in my hands. I heard some faint music and looked at my hand and noticed that the iPhone was still on and the screen must have been touched because it had brough up a game.
Stick Wars Lite.
I distinctly remember that game being active.
I then just hit the power button to put the phone to sleep.
Three people experiencing this? Might be more than a coincidence. However, I’m not sure that is the problem because I’ve attempted to reproduce it and it won’t happen (of course).
Nevertheless, I believe the phone did die because the battery was drained by something not playing nice and thus consumed all the power. One recommendation given was to never put your iPhone to sleep with an application active, to always go back to the Home screen before sleeping it. IMHO that should not be a requirement, or if it is then the iPhone ought to handle it automatically when you hit the power button.
I’ll keep an eye on things and if I can reproduce it, certainly I’ll report it to the developer. Being a developer myself, I appreciate it when people file (useful) bug reports, so I make sure to do the same for my fellow developer. Need a reproducible case first. 🙂
Stuff From Hsoi 