“Yellow Bamboo”. Of the “stop any charging attacker with your chi without physically touching the target!” mindset.
There’s a famous video on Youtube where the Australian skeptics society took them up on it. It’s several rounds of the YB practitioners standing on a beach in their special stance and then getting unceremoniously dumped into the sand by a dude.
Well, so long as you have a rational basis for your stance then we just have a difference of opinion, which is OK with me. My real argument is with the irrational set; the ones who believe technique doesn’t matter, that size and strength don’t matter, and the ones (who haven’t posted to this thread, thank god) who think they can do stuff with the power of their chi.
One aspect not mentioned is that kick-boxing is probably quicker to learn than Judo. So for Joe or Josephine Average, an hour spent at gym might have greater applicability than an hour at the Dojo.
I used to train in Judo. I practiced for about 6 months when I was 7 years old and attained the rank of yellow belt. I was a scrawny kid lacking in balance, coordination and strength.
I’ve never been in a street fight or a barroom brawl, but stuff happens in elementary school. I tried to avoid trouble, but sometimes my natural charm (ha!) wasn’t sufficient.
At my level of mastery, Judo throws worked in the Dojo, but were not reliable on the rare times that I used them on the playground. The trips were effective, even with my poor technique. And learning how to fall was the one thing that actually stuck with me throughout my life.
I’m just pointing this out, since while I know squat about the full range of martial arts, I am a world class expert at being a spaz.
Thought this would be as good a place as any to post this link:
That’s funny. I wonder if his wife gave snuggle bunnies that night? 
The dude looked pretty tough at 16. Still does. Look at the guns on the dude in that boxing pic.
I’m jealous!
Sorry about all the “dudes”. DrDeth, on the cell phone driving thread, got me started.
When you have little children of your own, these are the visions that terrify you at night. My 3 year old once put his hand on a pretty waitresses bottom while trying to get into a booth. She turned around looking as though she was going to strike someone. I know women have reason to be sensitive to unwelcome contact with their buttocks, but please look before you attempt to deliver a killing strike.
Also, please do not attack someone with a gun who just wants your wallet. Hollow point slugs do not merely “pierce”. They are designed to transfer the energy of the exploding gunpowder into the targets body in the form of hydrostatic shock. Ideally, the slug will actually stop inside the body, meaning that the energy has been completely transferred to the body. The concussive force shreds soft tissues and causes massive internal bleeding. The entry wound is only the tip of an injury iceberg. Gunshot wounds do not work like they do on TV or video games. A single shot to the torso or head is enough to kill anyone if it hits vital soft tissues.
Assuming
then, sure, I’ll take that as a rule.
A .22 can kill you just as dead as a .45 hollow point. When you’ve judged that you must fight for your life, the type of ammunition you’re facing is merely a technical detail.
I’m not sure if Kenyth meant that the attacker had the gun, or the defender had it.
Assuming the attacker has the gun and only wants your things. That covers most muggings and robberies I’m guessing.
I only used the hollow point round as an example. Standard ball ammo does significant damage as well. The point was that a gunshot wound is a very deadly thing and “things” aren’t worth risking your life over.
I don’t know about nowadays, but it used to be very rare that a mugger would shoot you once he got your valuables.
A phrase many of us know:
It’s different when it’s a whiffle ball bat. 
I don’t understand why the guy who had the no-touch knockouts got all those students to go along with it, and why he agreed to fight the real martial artist if he knew he was a fraud.
A follow up to Bob Sapp beating the kickboxing champion.
Here is Mirko Cro Cop Filipović beating Bob Sapp. Bob Sapp outweighs him by about 100lbs.
http://www.wat.tv/video/mirko-cro-cop-filipovic-vs-a9up_a9nj_.html
Wow what is that kick+strike he uses to put him down? That’s amazing. Bob Sapp looks like a giant, mean, muscular dude. He looks like a cartoon caricature of an unnaturally large fighter, not a person.
Looked like a roundhouse a feint(jab) and a left hook to me.
Looked more like Bob Sapp is a big crybaby, to me! 