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So I go out to the garden to practice the 26 count kata. He (my bro who's like 42? He's an old person ) comes running out with a bokken raised in jodan. So I enter in, drop on one knee and make tsuki for his throat. Attack stopped. I try to go back to training. He attacks, I parry and again make tsuki for his throat. This degenerates into a fight with him cutting at me and me poking him in the knee, ribs, belly and throat.
My bro's up for the week. As usual he's driving me nuts by constantly laying into me. Even more annoying is that he attacks me 24/7 so I have to be on guard all the time I'm in the house. I can't make a cup of tea without risking a punch in the ribs.
I have found a solution though, atemi. It's amazing how much peace and quiet I've got since I started putting him off with atemi.
Today I had to squeeze past him in the hall, which usually get's me a poke in the ribs, c'ept this time I threw a punch at his face and darted through while he was distracted.
If a self defence system was created that was highly effective, quite easy to learn but required no physical contact I reckon it would be a highly unpopular art because it wouldn't involve beating someone up.
05-29-2009 10:45 AM 
) comes running out with a bokken raised in jodan. So I enter in, drop on one knee and make tsuki for his throat. Attack stopped. I try to go back to training. He attacks, I parry and again make tsuki for his throat. This degenerates into a fight with him cutting at me and me poking him in the knee, ribs, belly and throat.
