Trump gives generals more freedom to make decisions in ISIS fight

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[ASA Vet]

the vision articulated by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: Decimate Islamic State’s Middle East strongholds

10% isn't anywhere near enough.

[Fedora]

Athleticism and size count for something when opponents are comparably skilled and using similar styles, and Chuck was familiar with the Wing Chun style from working out with Bruce--Chuck uses a JKD version of a Wing Chun vertical fist in one of the scenes from Lone Wolf McQuade, for example. I'm not sure who you're talking about when you mention "the teacher credited with actually training BL", but you're probably thinking of Wong Shun Leung, whom I mentioned in my previous post. (Bruce was initially trained by his own father, who taught him some Tai Chi; then by Yip Man; and when YM wasn't around, he was trained by some of YM's students who were his seniors, mainly Wong Shung Leung and William Cheung, who trained him in streetfighting when he was a gang member.) Yip Man beat Wong Shun Leung before WSL started taking Wing Chun lessons from him, but after he learned Wing Chun he became a better streetfighter than Yip (whose health wasn't very good in his later years), and he handled most of the challenges to Yip's school. WSL was one of Yip's two best fighters (the other being Leung Sheung). WSL was a better fighter than Bruce when they were younger, but when Bruce was in his prime, they sparred together and they were about equal.

[Reily]

Originally I think Chuck Norris was a Tang Soo Do martial stylist.

[ASA Vet]

hey would not drop a heavy bomb without confidence in the target

Sorta kinda like when we took out Osama at Tora Bora in 2001?

[Fedora]

In the real world, Chuck and several other top U.S. karate champions (including Joe Lewis and Bob Wall) trained privately with Bruce, and Chuck says in his own autobiography that Bruce was the better fighter. Chuck packed on 20 pounds for Way of the Dragon at Bruce's request; he says he's about 170 pounds now, he was probably around that or less then. Bruce got up to 165 pounds of pure muscle when he was in his bodybuilding phase, but he slimmed back down to 135 for speed. He worked out on a 300-pound bag that Bob Wall made him as a joke that Joe Lewis and some of their other friends were in on. None of them could move it with a punch or a kick. They didn't tell Bruce they were joking and they waited to see the look on his face when he saw how big the bag was. They told him they wanted to see what he could do with it, assuming he wouldn't be able to move it. The first time Bruce kicked it, it fell over. Then they hung it from the garage roof, and when Bruce kicked it, he broke the garage structure. He broke a 150-pound bag once. James Coburn was holding it for him and he got injured from holding it. Jhoon Rhee said he would not want to fight Bruce because he was "too powerful". Mike Stone said that Bruce was "much too fast for most referees to see and judge him in competitions".

[Fedora]

Yes, and he also learned Judo early in his career and used the throws to advantage in his tournament fights.

[Reily]

A lot of Tang Soo Do practitioners don’t realize that its a “Koreanized” Shito Ryu Karate system. Something I discovered in my martial art “walkabouts”.

[Fedora]

There’s also some Shotokan in Tang Soo Do, and some Long Fist influence.

[Innovative]

“We’re not a warrior state. Our goals are set by political and diplomatic objectives.”

And you don’t think killing all the terrorists before they kill us is consistent with our political and diplomatic objective?

[Fhios]

There isn’t anything I said that would lead you to that conclusion.