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fandomsecrets2014-02-24 06:43 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-02-24 06:43 pm
[ SECRET POST #2610 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2610 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies]
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[Twin Peaks]
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[DC Comics, Strix and Batgirl]
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[my mad fat diary]
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[Sekai Seifuku]
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[Lindsey Stirling]
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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]
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[Attack on Titan]
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[How to Train Your Dragon]
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[Figure Skating]
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[A Wild Endeavour]
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[American Horror Story]
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[The Americans]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 061 secrets from Secret Submission Post #372.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Self Defence Classes
In short, if the emphasis is on "how to get away", it's probably not bad, but if it's about "fighting back", then yeah, not worth it, because in real life that's not going to help you. Knowing how to disarm someone holding a knife to your neck is a lot more useful than knowing how to use your keys as a knife. Unfortunately, a lot of self-defense classes - especially the kind geared towards women - focus on the latter, when the useful thing would be to focus on the former.
I will comment, however, that if you want to learn martial arts and/or get in a good work-out as well as self-defense, go for Tae Kwon Do. From what I've heard and a bit of my own experience*, tae kwon do centers usually place a lot more emphasis on the athletic side of martial arts, but also often teach things like disarming an opponent with a knife or a gun (and in my experience - and seconding Tae Kwon Do anon above - they actually make a point to differentiate between the two). The reason why I suggest it is because, along with being a great work out, the kind of muscles/body power that would be most useful in disarmament methods are the kinds that will build-up from tae kwon do exercise. If you go this route, look for the ones that don't try and advertise/play on their Korean-ness or exoticism or whatever - the "American-ized"/"westernized" ones may seem a little more boring, but they are more practical about martial arts as a sport versus a method of self defense.
* = Tae Kwon Do is the only one I ever formally took, but I also learned karate and kung-fu informally and with a lot of stories about how the formal education went. In short, kung-fu will become useful as a self-defense method in about a decade of hard practice, whereas karate seems to have a bad reputation of doing little to counter over-confidence in students. But this is all several-years-old heresay, so I may be wrong about this.