Silat Mubai: Muslim Silat Combatives

[BoarSpear]

I hope they picked up alot of Doritos and funions while they were here

And some real beer

[medic06]

What would you think if this dude sat next to you on your next flight?

[BoarSpear]

What would you think if this dude sat next to you on your next flight?

Whew im glad he is sitting by me, and not some 300lb couch potato...

[medic06]

Good answer!!!

[BoarSpear]

I like this stuff...ALOT

http://www.shastarvidiya.org/video/video.html

Looks like a very nice style similiar to the flows of Kali and Silat



where the hell do i get me one o them hats?

[BoarSpear]

Hehehehe i believe i hid those in a good spot...

[seanyseanybean]

wow, i never knew indian arts were so in depth. I have seen the sword and tiny shield before but i never knew they had H2H as well.

hehe check out video 15, it starts pff like a bitch slapping fight.

[seanyseanybean]

but yea it does look like like FMA, esp the knife fight in clip 30.

[Garland]

Whew im glad he is sitting by me, and not some 300lb couch potato...

unless the couch potato has an aisle seat and is dead asleep, blocking the dude. If you've ever sat in a window seat next to a morbidly obese person and tried to GET OUT....you'd know that it's damn near impossible unless they move first, which takes awhile anyway.

[Garland]

by the way...what part of India is that from? Looks alot like FMA, not as dynamic as kalarippayat.

[kerambit]

These arts are all through india, they're the arts of the fakir. Very similar to silat.

[Makkhatter]

[QUOTE=Mike Brewer]It's my own humble opinion that Americans have become such sensationalists that they cannot see that losing 2,000 soldiers out of the 300,000 that have rotated into the war zone is, statistically, a completely acceptable loss. Nearly 20 times that many people die each year in car crashes. Nearly 100 times that many die of tobbacco related illness.


Completely acceptable loss
I'm so pissed by this I can barely formulate a thought to respond to this. I don't think theres such a thing as an acceptable loss, when it comes to the soldiers fighting beside me dying. There's nothing acceptable about it.

[medic06]

[QUOTE=Makkhatter]

It's my own humble opinion that Americans have become such sensationalists that they cannot see that losing 2,000 soldiers out of the 300,000 that have rotated into the war zone is, statistically, a completely acceptable loss. Nearly 20 times that many people die each year in car crashes. Nearly 100 times that many die of tobbacco related illness.


Completely acceptable loss
I'm so pissed by this I can barely formulate a thought to respond to this. I don't think theres such a thing as an acceptable loss, when it comes to the soldiers fighting beside me dying. There's nothing acceptable about it.

My family is trying to figure out this one too. I already lost one cousin and another got activated (his wife left him when it happened).

[BoarSpear]

http://www.sikhworld.co.uk/page17.html

"Gatka has been used over the centuries to great effect. Besides the numerous conflicts and wars in the Sikh homeland of Punjab, or the famous Sikh regiments of World War II, Sikhs armed with lathi were employed as riot police in the rough-and-tumble streets of 1930's Shanghai. The British police instructor, William Ewart Fairbairn, a pioneer in close-quarters battle and riot police tactics, found the Sikhs to be very effective at quelling disturbances due to their gatka-derived skills."

[BoarSpear]

Great post Mike!! Thanks for all you have done to strengthen our military, and thanks for all you will do as a part of it. I understand at least one of my guys is heading BACK in a couple months...