{"id":71,"date":"2005-10-06T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2022-01-28T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:56:34","slug":"martial-arts-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/martial-arts-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Martial Arts In Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In Edmonton, Canada, a 25-year-old man walking to a north-end store Tuesday night fought off an attacker using martial arts mastery, police say. Around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, two men sporting white bandannas approached the man near 121 Street and 150 Avenue, police say. One man demanded the 25-year-old hand over his wallet. After he refused, the would-be robber tried to assault him. But the man used a brachial stun technique (<i>An open-hand slapping strike applied to the brachial nerve area at the side of the neck.<\/i>) to drop his attacker to the ground. The second suspect immediately fled. The 25-year-old finished his trip to the store and called police when he got home. The investigation continues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>Two important lessons here, first react immediately before your opponents get the upper hand and make the first strike count! But there is one question we thought of&#8230;why didn&#8217;t he use the phone at the store?!<br>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/Edmonton\/2005\/10\/06\/1250875-sun.html\">SOURCE<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Edmonton, Canada, a 25-year-old man walking to a north-end store Tuesday night fought off an attacker using martial arts mastery, police say. Around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, two men sporting white bandannas approached the man near 121 Street and 150 Avenue, police say. One man demanded the 25-year-old hand over his wallet. After he refused,<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/martial-arts-in-action\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33,9],"tags":[174,170],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-in-the-news","category-self-defense","tag-in-the-news","tag-self-defense"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}