[Noisebridge-discuss] Self Defense

[seidos]

It could be said that "Jeet Kune Do" or MMA is a self defense hack of
whatever martial arts systems work within a particular setting or situation.
 But i'm not aware of any place in the bay area that really teaches that.
 The closest i can think of in terms of a particular martial school of
thought would be Krav Magra but i'm not sure where there are any in the
Noisebridge area.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com> wrote:

> Well, I think that rather than focusing on whether a particular activity is
> "hacking" or not, we talk about whether it's an appropriate use of a venue
> which exists to serve the needs of a community of hackers; and in my
> experience, martial arts is definitely a Hacker Interest (tho mostly as
> something hackers *know* about, rather than something hackers *do*
> necessarily).
>
> That said, there are lots of great martial arts studios in San Francisco --
> some of the best Kung Fu and BJJ studios in the world, in fact, and quantum
> martial arts is nice and friendly and right up at 20th and mission -- so it
> seems redundant to teach homespun martial arts classes unless we can
> genuinely come up with a serious "hacker spin" -- "self defense for pudgy,
> under-muscled software engineers" for example...
>
> I'd be interested in a western martial arts spin; and you can absolutely
> tie that into hackerdom because it can double as LARP research :)
>
> --S
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Forrest Flanagan <solenoidclock at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>>>>
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>>>
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