Duke Nukem

I've been doing MA for about three years now. I know the basics of Taekwondo and Brazilian Jujitsu. It's good exercise and I enjoy it, but lately I've been troubled with something.

Humans are not designed to fight. Physically we're poorly equipped- We're weaker than most animals and have no natural weapons at all. Our flesh is soft and frail. This is a planet filled with powerful animals like big cats and saltwater crocodiles, any one of which would level a human in seconds.

Yet it is humanity that rules. We have huge brains and hands to build things with. We dominate because of language and tool use.

You could train martial arts every moment of every day for your entire life- and then fight a grizzly bear and be torn limb from limb. Or, you could swing your credit card, shell out a few hundred bucks for a high-powered rifle, blow its brains out from a half-mile away and be home in time to watch judge judy.

We're tool users. We don't have claws, so we invented the samurai katana. We can't run fast, so we invented the motorcycle.

So what's the point of training your bare hands at all?

would you need a .50 cal? or something smaller? A rocket-propelled grenade? an elephant gun?

would you need a .50 cal? or could you do it with something smaller? A rocket-propelled grenade? an elephant gun?

I read about an FBI agent who was killed after being ambushed by an axe-wielding criminal who was hiding under the stairs.

How could anyone live through that kind of attack? I know you should run, but how would you survive the first swing? Is there a martial art that would be most useful?

And why?

Feudal Japan- A sentry hears footsteps in the grass. Through the night, he sees movement in front of him. He draws his katana and orders the subject to identify himself. Silence. The movement is gone. The sentry is surrounded by darkness. Every shadow looks like an enemy. Frozen in terror, he is easily dispatched.

Your best weapon is in your enemy's mind. Confrontation can often be avoided simply by scaring your opponent away. How do you accomplish this? How do you make an enemy fear you?