Post by schlager7 on Sept 23, 2006 8:59:57 GMT -6
This should truly live up to the off-kilter part of ths board:
streetcombat.8m.com/main.html
This guy purports to be a martial artist and a stage magician and has combined the two...
One quote from the site, "My name is Hans Eric Bristol. I am founder of the Magician’s Network Self-Defense System of street combat. Though I am not well-known in the United States, I am well-known among the martial arts community in Switzerland and other parts of Europe. I’m writing to issue a challenge to Rickson Gracie. I am not unfamiliar to no-holds-barred matches since I have enter in several of them throughout Europe. I have won two of these competitions. I do not enter these tournaments as frequently as other fighters to preserve the secrecy of my style of combat. The more an individual demonstrates his fighting secrets in public, the more the system becomes ineffective since the secrets have become exposed for others to produce ways to counter them. In regards to my system, I have tried to be as low key as possible, demonstrating it only to a limited audience."
He also apparantly has his own forum, but the link is dead!
Also beware... LOTS of pop-ups and banner ads!
On the other hand, he does offer transcranial magnetic stimulation!!!!
"An astounding breakthrough in using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for martial arts training has been discovered by M.N.S.S. founder, Hans Eric Bristol and renowned sports medicine researcher, Dr. Sherman Benning. TMS involves the use of a magnetic coil to produce a high powered magnetic field to stimulate various regions of the brain. Recently transcranial magnetic stimulation has been used to treat people with depression when medication treatment has failed. The magnetic field is focused on stimulating, specifically, the frontal cortex where researchers believe symptoms of depression comes from. This practice is gaining popularity over electroconvulsive therapy, also known as shock therapy, where an individual is given an anesthesia and then, have high electric currents running to the brain. Electroconvulsive therapy has been highly controversial due to the negative side-effects, especially amnesia. Transcranial magnetic stimulation rarely induces such symptoms and is usually painless. The magnetic coil can also be position in a way where the magnetic currents would stimulate only one part of the brain. People suffering from the depression have abnormal glucose metabolism rates in the frontal cortex as CAT scans research has shown. Experiments have shown that in many cases, depression has subsided after one or several sessions of TMS. Bristol and Benning have taken this same science and considered the efficacy of TMS on martial arts and general athletic training. In several experiments, numerous test subjects were studied to detect what will happen when certain parts of the brain were stimulated with magnetic fields. To Bristol and Benning's amazement, some subjects exhibit higher skills and learning capabilities when a part of the brain is stimulated compare to when it is not." bristolian.8m.com/TMS.html
P. T. Barnum was right.
streetcombat.8m.com/main.html
This guy purports to be a martial artist and a stage magician and has combined the two...
One quote from the site, "My name is Hans Eric Bristol. I am founder of the Magician’s Network Self-Defense System of street combat. Though I am not well-known in the United States, I am well-known among the martial arts community in Switzerland and other parts of Europe. I’m writing to issue a challenge to Rickson Gracie. I am not unfamiliar to no-holds-barred matches since I have enter in several of them throughout Europe. I have won two of these competitions. I do not enter these tournaments as frequently as other fighters to preserve the secrecy of my style of combat. The more an individual demonstrates his fighting secrets in public, the more the system becomes ineffective since the secrets have become exposed for others to produce ways to counter them. In regards to my system, I have tried to be as low key as possible, demonstrating it only to a limited audience."
He also apparantly has his own forum, but the link is dead!
Also beware... LOTS of pop-ups and banner ads!
On the other hand, he does offer transcranial magnetic stimulation!!!!
"An astounding breakthrough in using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for martial arts training has been discovered by M.N.S.S. founder, Hans Eric Bristol and renowned sports medicine researcher, Dr. Sherman Benning. TMS involves the use of a magnetic coil to produce a high powered magnetic field to stimulate various regions of the brain. Recently transcranial magnetic stimulation has been used to treat people with depression when medication treatment has failed. The magnetic field is focused on stimulating, specifically, the frontal cortex where researchers believe symptoms of depression comes from. This practice is gaining popularity over electroconvulsive therapy, also known as shock therapy, where an individual is given an anesthesia and then, have high electric currents running to the brain. Electroconvulsive therapy has been highly controversial due to the negative side-effects, especially amnesia. Transcranial magnetic stimulation rarely induces such symptoms and is usually painless. The magnetic coil can also be position in a way where the magnetic currents would stimulate only one part of the brain. People suffering from the depression have abnormal glucose metabolism rates in the frontal cortex as CAT scans research has shown. Experiments have shown that in many cases, depression has subsided after one or several sessions of TMS. Bristol and Benning have taken this same science and considered the efficacy of TMS on martial arts and general athletic training. In several experiments, numerous test subjects were studied to detect what will happen when certain parts of the brain were stimulated with magnetic fields. To Bristol and Benning's amazement, some subjects exhibit higher skills and learning capabilities when a part of the brain is stimulated compare to when it is not." bristolian.8m.com/TMS.html
P. T. Barnum was right.