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MotoGPatrick I agree with you. Everything depends on training. Most people don't understand the hackamore and try to train by pulling. That creates resistance. Also, rawhide hackamore injuries are extremely rare. One problem that occurs is when the mecate is tied too tight on the heel knot, and w...

Kyusho (Bubishi lists 36 VPs) should not be "primary" in real SD situations. Nerves do register pain. However, in an attack, they are hard to access. Meridians have been linked to neurological pathways, but the only way to KO someone is to create concussion (brain trauma,) or cut off oxygen flow ...

This is very sad! I train horses in rawhide hackamores and do not use bits anymore at all, because I can do everything (from cow work to advanced dressage, archery, etc.) in a hackamore. My horses respond off of my body, not my hands. Yet, I see this kind of cruelty all the time. Even people ridi...

Good for you Fudoshin. Keep studying. I've been doing MA for 40 years now. The differences are not as vast as you might think. There is distance ma-ai in Goju as much as there is in close fighting in Shotokan. And both use more jujutsu than most sensei know. My system combines all three. Kanazawa...