my congresswoman was shot today

[KnottedYet]

Trek, you must have some rotten luck getting into so many bad situations). Makes me want to think about taking up a martial art but I would have no idea which one (would have to find something where being 5'2" and 110 pounds would not put me at a horrible disadvantage).

Trek is smaller than you.

Which is probably why she was targeted as an easy victim so many times.

I've seen her in action, she's pretty darn impressive! Tiny cute grandma-lady throws big burly dude across dojo, wheeeeee!

[Roadtrip]

Trek is smaller than you.

Which is probably why she was targeted as an easy victim so many times.

I think there is truth here and being seen as an easy target. I have always been a bigger gal at 5' 5" and over 200 pounds, hands big enough to palm a basketball, so I got my fair share of "space" when it came to "tough" situations. One one and only time I had someone try to rough me, I saw him preparing to throw a football tackle at me, so I lowered my shoulder and leveled the guy into a puddle of wheezing mess gasping for air.

I would still love to learn some real self defense and training on how to deal with the intense situation should I have to do that.

I've seen her in action, she's pretty darn impressive! Tiny cute grandma-lady throws big burly dude across dojo, wheeeeee!

Now THAT I'd pay to see!!!!

[Trek420]

I would still love to learn some real self defense and training on how to deal with the intense situation should I have to do that.

No predicting what happens in the heat of a moment but I'd hope that today in a situation like your football dude that I'd step aside. He'd miss me, go sprawling and/or hit a wall or sumthin'

That's Aikido.

You may find that martial arts are not about the situation "If he does this you do that and if it's ...". You can't prepare for it, so many variables. Life isn't long enough to learn it all. But with the right teacher/school you may find a certain calm within should you need it.

And it's great for core, aerobic strength, good cross training.

Good teachers in martial arts will have the attitude that they hope you never "use it in real life", that's not what the arts are for. Finding the right school is the key.

INow THAT I'd pay to see!!!!

I've posted this before. The blond chickie is my teacher I've trained with all the others in this too. You'll see Kayla Fedor start, the 2nd technique she does at about 40 seconds with uke's neck stretched backwards? That is what came to me on the train. I still have no clue how I got to that technique because I really should not have been able to get there from where he was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnHEu...eature=related

[Jolt]

No predicting what happens in the heat of a moment but I'd hope that today in a situation like your football dude that I'd step aside. He'd miss me, go sprawling and/or hit a wall or sumthin'

That's exactly what I was thinking as I read about that situation...I'd just step to the side and then laugh at him when he took a header .

[Trek420]

That's exactly what I was thinking as I read about that situation...I'd just step to the side and then laugh at him when he took a header .

Falling on cement is no fun, sometimes called a "crash burn landing".