Gymanstics, capoeria, and practice Hannah, lots and lots of practice.

It's a Brazillian martial art. It looks sort of like breakdancing... which probably wasn't big in your area. If you want to see what it looked like, ask your dad to get you the movie, Kickin' It Old Skool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th6mPC0y ... ed&search=

The way teh practitioners of capoera can change their direction of movement and facing almost at will, when combined with gymnastics, and a whole lot of faith in one's own abilities can allow a person to evade combat almost indefinately, particularly in an urban/indoor environment. The only problem is here in the US one is likely to be facing a firearm rather than just the fists and feet of bullies.

This and traditional shao lin gung fu, are some of the most amazing examples of the human body moving in ways that most do not realize it is capable of.

Even still Capoeria has a fundamental flaw. If one understands Capoeria, it can easily be circumvented. Granted, it is still not easy, but very doable. Even so, I would still recommend it for training. Gymnastics as well. If you could get into it, Free-running. Doing all three would put you in pretty much olympic level shape.

there's a difference between smart and perfect. you're smarter than the other kids in your class, even though you didn't get a perfect score.

To learn how it is done, I estamate 2-3 months of study in your spare time, to be physicly able, probably 2-3 years of strenuous exercising - oh and being a cheerleader would not hinder that goal, their activity is quite physicly demanding and many karateka are not in as good of shape, especialy when it comes to flexability.

The look on his face the first time she tries: priceless.

Some things money really can't buy.

For everything else there's the RonCard. Good everywhere weapons are sold.

OK, so NO teachers did anything about that, but YOU doing something to a girl gets you in trouble?? GEE, ain't no double standard there, huh?

That was the way it always was when I was in school. I got my nose shattered by one of the jocks (remember that, Gabe?). I got put on 3-day out-of-school suspension for fighting (which was fine with me; I needed time to heal), and the principal almost didn't punish the jock! It took my parents throwing a fit in the school's office even just to make them acknowledge that the guy had done anything wrong.

I didn't land a hit at all on the guy. I advanced on him. He shattered my nose.

So of course, he got the same 3-day suspension as I did.

Don't let them tell you the schools are unbiased. Double standards are EVERYWHERE.

Hannah, I'm just glad you didn't get hurt over this. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed it stays that way.

Hopefully everything else is going well for you!

Heh... One thing you gotta keep in mind, Hannah, most of these city folk are pretty soft in comparison.

Just keep in mind, next time you feel the need to throw a punch, though... My nose getting shattered was what caused Gabriel to effectively be "born".

Anywho, glad to hear you weren't hurt in the fight!

Can that even be classified as a fight? I thought a few punches had to be thrown for it to be considered a fight, otherwise you would get people claiming they won a fight when all they did was sucker punch some 80 year old man.... oh wait people do actually do that....

Hope there's no serious repercussions from this though, I can just imagine rich bratty girl having rich bratty parents who take even the slightest piece of criticism in a very negative way and umm daughter with busted nose, I don't think they would take that all to well.

I didn't even throw a punch. I got slammed in the face, had my nose shattered, and got put in out-of-school suspension for three days. The guy who did it almost didn't get in trouble...

A one-hitter-qutter... Not suprised. I hate rich-bitch preps like that. Then again, I never try to make a fight last. I fight fair, but I don't fight nice. The longer a fight goes on, the longer I could get killed, so I usually dislocate something, or just go to incapacitate and then call it good by leaving, unless they pull a weapon or a firearm. Then may God have mercy on them, and the EMT's get there fast enough.

Oh well... I would watch out for social repercussions, like from the aforementioned family. Good shot by the way.

Nice shot Hannah. Next time you gotta make it look like an accident though so you don't get in trouble. One good trick is to trip someone and bodily hurl them into a table or wall and make it look like they fell.

Bert, Razor, you shouldn't encourage her.

One punch -- BAM -- bitch went DOWN!

two words:
ha haaaah!

Willie Long wrote:Bert, Razor, you shouldn't encourage her.

One punch -- BAM -- bitch went DOWN!

Willie, if you hit me hard enough I will go down, too.

Yeah, but ... she got the Eye of the Tiger, Kalle.

(Er, Eye of the Tiger Cub, at least.) I mean, when she tried to kill me, I saw some real potential there. I'd love to help nurture that.