The National Post
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
SUDBURY - Convenience-store owner Hak Kyu Kim, a former South Korean soldier, did not need to resort to his martial arts training when a knife-wielding robber entered his store. Mr. Kim attacked the robber with a snow shovel. Last year, he fought off four intruders with a mop. A man has been charged with robbery.
http://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id=4E409865-03BB-40DF-969B-42F9D3C1AB65
It appears to me that he was using his martial arts skills. It’s just that he did it Jackie Chan style. Martial Arts RULE and KUNGFOOLSS is just a sad, lonely, wimpy, computer geek who still lives with his mama!! Boo-hoo-hoo.
the best korean MA is their short fuse 
Do Be Open-minded
Don’t Be Gullible
The title is bullshit meant to smear.
Maybe SCARS teaches you to go after people with weapons with your bare hands. The rest of us will pick up weapons to give us a fair or better advantage.
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“When we go to the ground, you are in my world. The ground is the ocean, I am the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim.” RCJ Machado
Good article Kungfoolss.
Funny stuff.
The title is bullshit meant to smear.
Yes, shame on Phrost for selecting such a title.(Chuckles)
Damn right!! That’s ass kicking - CANADIAN STYLE!!!
YEEEEEEEHAAAAWWWW!!!..eh?
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated. - Geroge Bernard Shaw
Edited by - Rising Phoenix on June 18 2003 00:52:39
Good article Kungfoolss.
Funny stuff.
Yah, I don’t understand why people are having such a negative reaction to it. Must be all that adolescent hostility they have for me and this is the only way they can release it.
the best korean MA is their short fuse
Is that anything like a Jewish lawyer suing you?
I think most people object to the title of the thread. Use of weapons of opportunity should be a part of every martial art.
I think most people object to the title of the thread. Use of weapons of opportunity should be a part of every martial art.
I don’t think you need to have a martial arts background to whack some robber with a shovel. Unless you used it like Jet Li does in the movies, with a lot of flash and useless fancy movement. He could’ve easily smacked the guy with a frozen package of back bacon.
You Hoser
Edited by - kungfoolss on June 18 2003 02:07:11
>I don’t think you need to have a martial arts background to whack some robber with a shovel.
Ummm So? It works.
Space may be the final frontier,
But it’s made in a Hollywood basement.
You don’t need to have martial arts training to use a shovel as a weapon, but someone trained in the use of a weapon with the same type of weight distribution would be more effective than someone with no training.
Or is the title implying that the man developed a memory problem after the incident which prevents him from recalling any of his martial arts training?
I don’t remember what the original title was actually. I just changed it to get the point of the article as written by the author, across a bit better.
The news topics are to spur discussion.
I sitll think the best weapon to have is a korean’s rage. that can top even the heaviest shovel and also get u on the S korean olympic wrestling team.
Do Be Open-minded
Don’t Be Gullible
I sitll think the best weapon to have is a korean’s rage. that can top even the heaviest shovel and also get u on the S korean olympic wrestling team.
Well, maybe the Korean could’ve just breathed on the robber, I’m sure he ate kim chee sometime during the day before the robbery encounter.
Good for the soldier, hooray for improvised weaponry and Korean food is delicious.
Korea has an Olympic wrestling team? I thought they only used their own heathen arts
A 6th dan black belt in bastardry.
“Damn you! You dirty fighter.” My sparring partner, also disabled, recovering from being bitten.
what was his MA training anyways?
kendo?
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Hard work, Patience, Dedication.
In training to be the superior practitioner.
Only the insane start off with chain punches.
BTW,
The shovel was an implement that the Buddhist monks in China would routinely carry around with them on their wandering pilgrimages. They originally had them so that they would be able to bury any dead bodies that they would find on the road since, being monks, they felt that they had a responsibility to be able to do do with the proper rites of propitiation for the decedents’ souls, as well as disposing of a public health hazard in the process.
These shovels were also used for self-defense. This has led to the development of a common enough Shaolin weapon known as the “Monk’s Spade.”
S korea has a very GOOD wrestling team, espeically for a country that small. they are only a few medals behind US (in greco at least. not sure if they suck in freestyle or as good). remember…their country is puny and US is huge.
Do Be Open-minded
Don’t Be Gullible