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	<title>Isegoria &#187; Martial Arts</title>
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		<title>The resistance started to fade as more and more Soldiers came to grips, literally, with the enemy</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/10/the-resistance-started-to-fade-as-more-and-more-soldiers-came-to-grips-literally-with-the-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Larsen describes some lessons learned early in the War on Terror: As the team entered the second house the number one man seemed to be struggling with something as he went through the first door. The number two man, keying off of the direction taken by number one turned left, the opposite direction from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Face to Face with Death in Mosul</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/09/face-to-face-with-death-in-mosul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Larsen shares the story of Staff Sergeant Paul McCully finding himself face to face with death in Mosul: I wasn’t sure what had happened, I just knew I was laid out on my stomach, and I couldn’t feel my hands or legs. I could hear Owens screaming, and I was checking myself to see [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Martial arts evolve</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/martial-arts-evolve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Larsen reminds us that martial arts evolve: As long as the environment forces students to engage in real fights regularly, as in a warlike society, they stay focused on that goal. But in most societies have long periods where they are peaceful. Then things start to change. […] Kano began learning Jiu-Jitsu just a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Musk’s Japanese steampunk-themed 42nd birthday party culminated in a demonstration of Sumo wrestling</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/05/musks-japanese-steampunk-themed-42nd-birthday-party-culminated-in-a-demonstration-of-sumo-wrestling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 14:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martial Arts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Musk’s Japanese steampunk-themed 42nd birthday party, Walter Isaacson explains (in his biography of Elon), culminated in a demonstration of Sumo wrestling: At the end, the group’s 350-pound champion invited Musk into the ring. “I went full strength at him to try a judo throw, because I thought he was trying to take it easy on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What the will and ambition of a ‘kid’ can do with the experience and aptitude of a GOAT</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/03/what-the-will-and-ambition-of-a-kid-can-do-with-the-experience-and-aptitude-of-a-goat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jake Paul is set to fight former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in a boxing match that will be livestreamed on Netflix, on July 20, from the AT&#38;T Stadium in Texas: “It’s crazy to think that in my second pro fight, I went viral for knocking out Nate Robinson on Mike Tyson’s undercard,” Paul said. “Now, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Backing up is rarely a successful option</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2023/11/backing-up-is-rarely-a-successful-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Martial Arts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you pay attention, you’ll regularly see video of criminal attackers armed with contact weapons closing the distance by charging their victims at a dead run: That’s a difficult scenario to handle and a lot of victims give in to their natural reaction to back up and create more distance. The problem is that the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>You have a 99% chance of surviving the encounter</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2023/10/you-have-a-99-chance-of-surviving-the-encounter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 14:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Ellifritz was recently watching a video where a guy in Thailand takes his belt off to whip another guy, and that guy pulls out a knife and stabs him in the neck: First of all, knife wounds (both slashes and stabs) are far less lethal than gunshot wounds. It is generally only the people [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Men want to engage in righteous combat</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2023/09/men-want-to-engage-in-righteous-combat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men want to engage in righteous combat: They want it more than they want sex or VP titles. They fantasize about getting the casus belli to defend themselves against armed thugs that will never come, they spend billions of dollars on movies and TV about everymen in implausible circumstances where EA calculus demands they use [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>If it was good enough for Heracles and Theseus, it’s good enough for us.</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2023/07/if-it-was-good-enough-for-heracles-and-theseus-its-good-enough-for-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When asked about a potential Zuckerberg-Musk MMA fight in the actual Roman Colosseum, Marc Andreessen said, “I think that’s all great,” and then explained why: I was also asked whether I consider Mark and Elon to be role models to children in their embrace of fighting, and I said, enthusiastically, yes. And I further recommended [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Elbows are very hazardous to the hands</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/08/elbows-are-very-hazardous-to-the-hands/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/08/elbows-are-very-hazardous-to-the-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James LaFond is surprised by how poorly boxing coaches understand their bareknuckle roots: In gloved boxing, the hooker is better served in the pocket or wheelhouse and the straight puncher wants to be on the outside. In bareknuckle boxing the straight puncher can stay on the inside and do damage. Body punches count for more [&#8230;]]]></description>
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