[Noisebridge-discuss] Self Defense

[Forrest Flanagan]

Padding and cross training, respectively.

I just think it's a stretch to say that a thing which is studied, or even
improved upon, is being hacked. I don't think it's accurate to say that
practicing martial arts or even practicing variants that you think would
work better could be called hacking. I don't think that using software on a
graphing calculator or studying abacus use is a hack for mathematics either.
There may be abacus and graphing calculator hacks, respectively, but math is
still math just as defense is still defense.

It's a crappy argument though, and it has nothing to do with whether or not
people want to learn self defense at a hackerspace.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com> wrote:

> One could hack martial arts to be less painful or combine multiple types of
> martial arts to have a non lethal hand to hand combat system.   Just saying.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Forrest Flanagan <solenoidclock at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> How is this hacking? Like is he going to teach some techniques for
>> incapacitating someone with a leatherman multi-tool or something? Maybe
>> point out existing flaws in various martial arts techniques?
>>
>> "You see officer, he tried to social engineer me out of my wallet with a
>> hacked beer bottle so I penetration tested his abdomen with these here wire
>> strippers"
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:35 AM, seidos <kdemarest at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> is anyone interested in "self-defense" hacking?  i have a friend that
>>> teaches Jujitsu, another friend that teaches Aikido, and i have had training
>>> in tae kwan do and BJJ.
>>>
>>> --
>>> with metta,
>>>
>>> seidos
>>> http://accesstoinsight.org
>>> http://fictionalphilosophy.org
>>> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/seidos
>>> http://launchpad.net/~seidos
>>>
>>>
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> Ronald Cotoni
> Systems Engineer
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