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[MetalSlimeHunt]

But eskrima IIRC just teach show to strike, with no specifications on how. Though I don't think there is much stabbing when training with batons, I think that's more for the knives section and I don't think all schools train that

This has knives later on, but there's stabbing with the batons as well. Turns out, forcing a solid blunt object into a person's solar plexus is very painful.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Yes indeed

My friends and I larp with non padded weapons. Specifically wooden Bokken, wooden sticks made from cut up dowel rods, and polypropalyn swords. I once charged at one of my friends from down hill and he decided to stab at me, I ran straight into the tip of a wooden bokken at full sprint, it hit right under that solid bone in the middle of your rib cage. Very very very painful (anatomy is not my strong suit)

[MaximumZero]

That solid bone in the middle of your ribcage is the sternum. It hurts to get hit there. Also, you learn way more than just stabbing when being taught with spears, or at least I did in Ninjutsu.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I was just saying for example, I have seen some cool shit done with spears but I was just trying to drive the point of training with a spear teaches you way different skills than with an axe but eskrima and the like teach generaly every type of attacking and nothing specific entirely IIRC

Also yes it does hurt very much so...

[MaximumZero]

Note: The Solar Plexus is a nerve cluster right under the bottom tip of your sternum. You described the same thing that MSH described. It hurts to be hit there, too. If you hit someone in the solar plexus hard enough, it can seriously damage their diaphragm, which controls lung function.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Huh...
Ya it hurt quite a bit
Though it's better than what happens to two of my friends, they always seem to be nut shotted everytime they come over and fight. I think one of them has to be sterile by now

[MaximumZero]

I've been taking those for a long time, and I have my second kid on the way.

Also, to those medicals on the board: I understand that what is colloquially known as the solar plexus is actually the xyphoid process and isn't actually the celiac plexus. Please don't yell at me.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

.... Don't think about.... Don't think about it.... Don't think about it..... Crap!
*Cryxis has become confused


So any other major points to look out for to make sure people don't die while we (LARP?)

[GiglameshDespair]

Throat.
Eyes would probably be pretty bad if you poked that out with your sticks.
Side of the knee's pretty bad place to get hit.
Head has a small chance of you just dying from it for little-to-no reason, as happened to a distant family member of mine.

[Helgoland]

Under the armpits is pretty bad too, at least with a knife. Stick would hurt too though.

[Flying Dice]

The short answer is "just about anywhere, if you hit them right (wrong)".

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Head has a small chance of you just dying from it for little-to-no reason, as happened to a distant family member of mine.

Odds of this are much higher from hitting the side of the head. Your ears cause a structural weakness that greatly increases the odds of your temporal lobe just quitting on you.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I meant anywhere besides the head and throat that if hit could cause death, seems the sternum nerve cluster could cause some major problems.

[Kadzar]

I finally asked out the girl I like at work. She told me she has a boyfriend, but it seems like there's still a good possibility that we can be friends, which is part of why I was afraid to ask her before (and also I never got as good a chance to do so as today).

Maybe not super-happy, but I don't feel very sad about it. Sure, I'm really disappointed, but I feel like being honest about my feelings for her will lead us to having a closer friendship/removes the baggage in the way for such. And, if anything, this is certainly better than the last time I asked a girl out, if nothing else.

[AlleeCat]

I'm breaking my self-ban on the emotion threads, but awesome stuff happened today and I want to share.

Went to the first day of my internship today. Cute redhead is there and runs up to me the minute she sees me, possibly from me being the only person there that she knew. We spent most of the day hanging out. Talking about random stuff. Making jokes. Getting a little flirty.
After the day is over, I get her number, and we figure out that we're both going around the same way home, so we take the bus together and talk more on the way. She's awesome and sweet and pretty and I'm pretty sure she was hinting at being into me at some point but I couldn't tell for certain. She's definitely into girls, though, and she was pretty excited just to be around me, but she also hinted at a general lack of human contact (which I totally get) that made her a little clingy.
I really like her though. I would just go and ask her out already but I want to take it slow for a few days before I'm certain she'd be OK with it. Anyway, I just walked home with a pretty big smile on my face. Haven't felt this good in a long time.