Do any of the grappling styles teach defense against weapons?

**Permalost** · Posted On: 10/10/2007 1:02am

Originally Posted by Vince Tortelli

Didn't Rigan Machado win the first ever Dog Brothers gathering via Grapple over Stick? I heard this somewhere else and would appreciate if anyone could verify this.

The Dog Brothers gatherings are not tournaments. Machado jiujitsu is part of the DBMA mix.

**Vince Tortelli** · Posted On: 10/10/2007 1:24am

Thank you for clearing this up for me, Codos. I got that info from a Kali guy, his point was that Dog Brothers is not real MA, it is just guys who beat the crap out of each other (???) I was torn over whether or not to believe him, because on one hand YEAH! Jiu jitsu wins again! On the other hand, the guy was kind of a prick.

**variance** · Posted On: 10/10/2007 2:32am

Originally Posted by Vince Tortelli

Thank you for clearing this up for me, Codos. I got that info from a Kali guy, his point was that Dog Brothers is not real MA, it is just guys who beat the crap out of each other (???) I was torn over whether or not to believe him, because on one hand YEAH! Jiu jitsu wins again! On the other hand, the guy was kind of a prick.

Replace the "Kali" label for that guy with Kenpo, or Wing Chun.

and Replace the dog brothers with UFC/MMA fighters.

Same thing. FMA has its douche's just like any other art.

**Jim_Jude** · Posted On: 10/10/2007 2:36am

Originally Posted by test1234

to beat people in duels of honour

+REP for fun spelling of honor.

**Lu Tze** · Posted On: 10/10/2007 4:27am

That's how it's supposed to be spelt you heathen colonial.

**variance** · Posted On: 10/10/2007 4:31am

Originally Posted by Lu Tze

That's how it's supposed to be spelt you heathen colonial.

Go back to your police state damn Limey.

Why do you hate our freedom.

**Babachewy** · Posted On: 10/10/2007 9:59am

Originally Posted by fanatical

To be honest the first incident was with a crazy settlement with Tamil guys who apparently had some insane quarrel. The second was with one of the major gangs which are mostly composed of Asians and Middle eastern to eastern european types.

Norwegian gangs are usually Neo Nazis with some form of connection to racism. It wouldn't look much different from any other scrap in the world.

This isn't really indicative of daily events over here. We're one of the more peaceful countries in the world. :) It just popped into my head when swords were mentioned. I still can't believe people are running around with swords nowadays.

I was going to say how our samurai sword waving people in the US are just lone nutballs and I found this amusing link, which is a compilation of news stories from around the world involving swords: http://www.thearma.org/essays/Fringe.htm. Fun read, but probably old news to many of you. The phrase they use, "Samurai Night Fever," made me laugh.

What surprises me is how many of these sword attacks are non-lethal and what doesn't surprise me is how often waving a sword around in public gets you shot.