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18 October 2006

Lethal Bunnies I had my first lesson in karate last night. Some years back I took kickboxing for four months or so and found to my delight that I still remembered a good bit of what I learned. And I was just wondering, who among us has some experience/expertise in the martial arts? Which bunnies could kick the other bunnies' asses? Not that they ever would, of course.

post by: Orange Swan at: 13:02 | 29 comments

Which bunnies could kick the other bunnies' asses?

The ones with guns.

posted by jonmc 18 October | 13:04

[practises Miss Piggy-style karate chop on jonmc]

posted by Orange Swan 18 October | 13:14

*opens fire*

*prepares orange fois gras*

posted by jonmc 18 October | 13:24

I have two friends that do capoeria and I could ask them to kick bunny butt.

So don't mess with me.

posted by Specklet 18 October | 13:26

I have family with roots in the Old Country.

Bring it on.

posted by jonmc 18 October | 13:27

I took taekwon-do for most of my high school career. My dad's idea. When I graduated, I'd made it to brown belt. By the United Karate Studios rankings, I was two belts and a stripe away from black.

This was 17 years ago.

Make of that what you will.

Punk.

posted by grabbingsand 18 October | 13:29

I was on a National Championship fencing team. None of you will get within 3 feet of me. Plus I'm gassy. So make that 5 feet.

posted by sciurus 18 October | 13:30

I probably could after a workout. Nothing like that armpit waft.

posted by chewatadistance 18 October | 13:30

I can run fast.

posted by mike9322 18 October | 13:35

also, is it just me or does Nate Robertson look vaguely like a Mennonite hit-man?

posted by jonmc 18 October | 13:43

I've been training in Seido karate for the past seven months, and I absolutely love it. I plan to keep training till I'm no longer physically able to. That combined with my regular yoga practice make me strong and flexible.

What style are you training in?

posted by smich 18 October | 14:00

I give a mean dirty look. I also trained in the hit you with a metal garbage can or barstool when you aren't looking and run like fuck school for a while. I haven't kept up though.

posted by Divine_Wino 18 October | 14:14

apparently I got my ass kicked by jonmc yesterday...

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 October | 14:29

I'm a yellow belt. Not to be confused with yellow-belly.

*lifts shirt, checks belly*

(I seriously haven't been in a physical fight since I slapped my best friend Frankie when I was eight, and he hit me back. Lesson learned.)

posted by Pips 18 October | 14:29

Like the Wino, I am a practitioner of the withering glance. I have a few varieties, depending on the occasion. There's the "You are this close to being slashed by my razor-sharp tongue." There's the "Yes, I'm small, but I'm strong and I kick hard and I am very, very serious, so don't fuck with me." And there's the shame-inducing "You are the biggest fucktard I have ever seen, go lick the inside of a dumpster or something." (The latter is employed most often in crosswalks, aimed at drivers who don't fully stop, but sort of inch towards you in a menacing, impatient way.)

People tend not to mess with me.

posted by mudpuppie 18 October | 14:36

Like the Wino, I am a practitioner of the withering glance.

I've seen the Wino's glances. They're not so much withering as they are bleary.

posted by jonmc 18 October | 15:13

Mostly I just get beat up a lot.

posted by dersins 18 October | 15:14

*Stinkeyes jonmc*

posted by Divine_Wino 18 October | 15:16

As a younger man, I once took Tae Kwon Do for about six months. My instructor, though well meaning, decided he "had a better method", so, read that as about three months of actual useful instruction. I quit going because of jury duty. I had it for a solid month, and by the time it was over, I had gotten out of the habit of going, and never went back.

I have since perfected the martial technique of creeping people out. Highly effective in its own way.

posted by King of Prontopia 18 October | 15:17

P-U!

posted by jonmc 18 October | 15:24

Given enough time, I can bore you to death. I'm quite convinced that anybunny could kick my ass long before, though.

posted by Daniel Charms 18 October | 15:28

I would nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 18 October | 15:48

Like sciurus, I was a fencer.

Unlike sciurus, I wasn't terribly good, and was most certainly not on any national team.

Sciurus, what weapon? Saber myself.

posted by Inkoate 18 October | 16:39

I'm an advanced brown belt in Isshin Ryu (Okinawan) Karate. I thought I might make black belt but that might not happen.

I also train in Kendo, but I'm unranked. Not sure how valuable it would be, but you never know when a samurai sword fight might break out.

posted by tommasz 18 October | 17:21

I'm a pacifist, mostly. But my pistol likes to get in fights.

Though I would imagine the decade or so of training with nunchacku would serve me decently well if it came down to it. Or the training with swords. All of it without instruction, just lots of pause, rewind and play of Bruce Lee movies.

Oh yeah, and I've got the "Aaaaaiiiiieeeee!" down too!

posted by fenriq 18 October | 17:32

I'm a Mom of three teenagers. Trust me, you don't want to cross me. I'd kill someone just for the peace and quiet of prison.

posted by redvixen 18 October | 18:45

A few years ago, I took ten weeks of Aikido at my school gym. I would like to take more.

posted by halonine 18 October | 19:15

And redvixen for the win!

posted by deborah 18 October | 21:15

I'm a Mom of three teenagers.

Yeah . . .redvixen wins. By this point, she's got a black belt in Mom-do.

If i did do any martial art, I'd probably learn Muay Thai because I have strong legs and kind of wimpy arms, thin wrists. Kickboxing would play to my strengths.

I'd also love to learn a little Krav Maga, which is Modern Hebrew for "Don't fight fair. Fight to win." I've heard you don't need to be in great shape to use its techniques. Might do me some good when I'm old, fat, arthritic and some kid tries to take my Social Security check.

posted by jason's_planet 18 October | 22:12

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