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The story shocked me more than usual because I know my friend is a fairly good martial artist. He is often dubbed as 'talented' by his colleagues and superiors. What's wrong with this story? In theory, he may have wasted the thief quickly while he clearly had no weapon with him. According to him, he didn't know what to do. He knew how he could subdue such assault but he just did not know how to handle it at that time. As a thirteen-year-old, I started inside high school youth group. I was into rock and metal at the time along a crappy guitar that I used to attempt to play Metallica songs using tabs. I was only moderately successful in doing so rather than really learned any full songs and definitely didn't figure out how to really have fun playing the guitar, most certainly not in such a way where I could just pick-up playing the guitar and play from start to finish.