Deadwing: Just for giggles, here is a quick draw guy from Miami Vice.

Link

Yo homie. Is that my briefcase?

kim jong-un: Tony_Pepperoni: [i.imgur.com image 168x169]

Interesting to note that he pushed the arm away from him... and then swept the barrel back across his head.

He basically doubled the amount of time that the gun could kill him than if he simply pushed the arm away, turned his body into it and held-on, pulled, bit, and gouged for dear life.

That is almost word for word what I thought. Boomy-deathy-painy-bit away from head would be number one concern.

/Waaaaaait for the 'I trained Chuck Norris' people to chime in

Smackledorfer: Yes, you're a badass and would knockout a well trained fighter by surprising him with your leet skills.

I always thought I was a badass growing up I used to get into fights over the silliest things, I just liked to throw hands. Once my business expanded and I had the time and money to do the things I wanted to do I started taking a couple clases here and there, I got to meet and learn from alot of cool people...Jeff Cooper, Masood Ayoob, Renzo Gracie, Bob Bondurant.....

Some of us collect miniature Giraffes, others collect warfighting skills.

Giltric: I love it when martial arts people tell you to "stand here and come at me like this"

but what if I did this instead............hey sensei, are you ok?

Can someone go to the Rite Aid next door and get some smelling salts and a cold compress.

I know Victor Marx and he's really that good.

In a lot of demonstrations the reason it's important for the "attacker" to do a specific thing a specific way is for his or her protection, especially if you're going to perform a technique at full speed.

I've done some gun disarming demos and for the technique I like to do, it's critical for my demo partner to keep his or her finger out of the trigger guard, because IRL the technique wrenches the gun across the back of the attacker's hand, dislocates or breaks the finger and often fires the gun in the attacker's face.

That said, a big "no duh" to those pointing out this wouldn't work with a Weaver Stance or if the attacker was 10 feet away. It's a specific technique for a specific situation. It's a demo; it's supposed to showcase the technique.

But it does work just as fast as it looks in the video. Victor often tells the attacker to say "Bang" whenever he or she wants, then takes the gun away and pops the clip out before the attacker can say more than "B--..."

Sensei Can You See: this wouldn't work with a Weaver Stance or if the attacker was 10 feet away

Forgot to mention -- the way the attacker is holding the gun is the way people in Marx's target audience tends to use them. He speaks to a lot of troubled youth, gang members and especially kids in prison. They haven't had any professional training with guns, of course. So they would usually stick a gun right in someone's face or use that stupid sideways gangbanger grip. And he shows them that having a gun doesn't make you bad.

If someone pointed a gun at me from a Weaver stance and/or out of arm's reach, I'd have to do something different.

The other thing I forgot to mention is that the technique I use myself, mentioned earlier, is much easier than the one Victor shows here. It's relatively easy to take control of the weapon, but as I mention, my technique results in fairly serious injury to the attacker (not that I'd be worried about it IRL).

Victor's technique makes the gun pretty much disappear out of the attacker's hand and they don't feel a thing. That's exponentially more difficult.

Look around on YouTube if you're interested; he's also scary good with a katana and at a number of other cool things.

Carth: EbolaNYC: 7Th degree blackbelt expert?

Expert goes without saying when you're a 7th dan.

Yea but it is in a style his cousin created.

Actually it was his father. Cajun dude name Karl Marx, believe it or not.

Flappyhead: Dropped Cajun Karate Keichu-do into Google, found precisely what I was expecting.

Search results? That's what I would expect.