arnisador
09-12-2007, 11:04 AM
This video on Yahoo! is a news story of a teen-aged hapkidoist who fought off a mentally intruder to protect his family:
Karate kid fights intruder (http://www.yahoo.com/s/674624)
A Florida teenager used his martial arts skills to fight off a chainsaw-wielding intruder.
The family was safe, the young man was uninjured, and the attacker--a mentally ill neighbor--was not seriously injured either. Great story!
Two related stories they have with it:
Mugger in Germany foiled by blind judo expert (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_blind)
A blind judo expert astounded a mugger by pinning him to the ground after he tried to steal his cigarettes, police said on Monday.
The assailant, a 17-year-old man of Asian origin, spotted the 33-year-old, who police identified only as Emil E., at a train station in the southwestern town of Giessen and thought he would be easy prey, police spokesman Rolf Wellershausen said.
But what the attacker did not know, the spokesman said, was that his victim was a world-class blind judo wrestler.
The 17-year-old threatened the blind man, then punched him in the face, at which point the martial artist flipped him and held him down until police arrived.
That's what I call a feel-good story!
74-year-old fights off mugger at mall (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_fe_st/odd_senior_self_defends)
A tire iron-wielding man who police said was looking to mug a senior citizen probably thought he had found an easy target — that is, until the 74-year-old fought back.
[...]
The mugger demanded Ferraro hand over his wallet, calling the Bay Shore resident an "old man" and threatening to hit him with the tire iron, Groneman said.
Instead, Ferraro grabbed the bar and the two fought, until the septaugenarian managed to snatch away the tire iron, police said.
Groneman said Ferraro did "a good job" of disarming his would-be assailant, though he would not recommend other people attempt such a brazen act of self-defense.
A disarm! Excellent! Grappling situations like that are just where I'd expect to use a stick disarm.
Karate kid fights intruder (http://www.yahoo.com/s/674624)
A Florida teenager used his martial arts skills to fight off a chainsaw-wielding intruder.
The family was safe, the young man was uninjured, and the attacker--a mentally ill neighbor--was not seriously injured either. Great story!
Two related stories they have with it:
Mugger in Germany foiled by blind judo expert (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_blind)
A blind judo expert astounded a mugger by pinning him to the ground after he tried to steal his cigarettes, police said on Monday.
The assailant, a 17-year-old man of Asian origin, spotted the 33-year-old, who police identified only as Emil E., at a train station in the southwestern town of Giessen and thought he would be easy prey, police spokesman Rolf Wellershausen said.
But what the attacker did not know, the spokesman said, was that his victim was a world-class blind judo wrestler.
The 17-year-old threatened the blind man, then punched him in the face, at which point the martial artist flipped him and held him down until police arrived.
That's what I call a feel-good story!
74-year-old fights off mugger at mall (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_fe_st/odd_senior_self_defends)
A tire iron-wielding man who police said was looking to mug a senior citizen probably thought he had found an easy target — that is, until the 74-year-old fought back.
[...]
The mugger demanded Ferraro hand over his wallet, calling the Bay Shore resident an "old man" and threatening to hit him with the tire iron, Groneman said.
Instead, Ferraro grabbed the bar and the two fought, until the septaugenarian managed to snatch away the tire iron, police said.
Groneman said Ferraro did "a good job" of disarming his would-be assailant, though he would not recommend other people attempt such a brazen act of self-defense.
A disarm! Excellent! Grappling situations like that are just where I'd expect to use a stick disarm.