Mike Brewer

Lilwizard, try and relax. He may not like you, but it's public, and he's not required to like you. You may or may not have noticed, but there are several of us here who don't like each other. That's just part of the forum experience.

Second, he's got a valid point. You've waffled pretty seriously as to what you want to do with your training, and some of your ideas have been waaaay out there. As I recall, you solicited information about how to train, and when several of us gave you some solid, sound, good advice, you ignored it completely and brushed us all off. You can't act surprised that your queries might now be met with some skepticism. Don't take it so personally. You sowed those seeds yourself.

Third, I told you why I personally didn't feel comfortable sharing weapons training ideas with you, and it's largely for the same reasons I already mentioned. I also, however, provided you with no less than 23 listings in your area for martial arts schools. The kind of training you're looking for is very, very easy to find in just about any martial arts magazine. Just look at the advertisements and pick something that looks like it's in line with what you want to do.

Fourth - and this is important - if you go through all this and still don't take anyone's advice? Well, you can pretty much expect to be written off by the whole forum as nothing more than a troll. You've asked for this kind of advice on other arts before, and you obviously haven't taken the first step toward actually doing anything with that advice, so if you blow us all off this time, you're really only showing us how little you value our time and input. So if Michael's treatment of your posts is not something you like, I'd seriously consider your approach here, because you're setting yourself up to receive similar treatment from virtually everyone else here too.