Kung Fu Secret Agent ???!

[cerebus]

Okay, how many of you have seen the latest article on this site's main page entitled "Kung Fu Secret Agent"?

What do you think of the guy's story? Personally it sounds like a "Frank Dux" story to me but since I don't have the resources to check it out, I can't say for sure.

Anyone out there have any comments on it?

[Royal Dragon]

I didn't read the artical, but I have worked with guys in the past who where FBI, AFT a Cook County Sherif (as a student of his) another who was attached to some sort of Chicago Gang crimes unit and had a sparring partner years ago who is a former Marine and a Kempo specialst.

I also had some really intersting conversations with local police here and there about the arts they practice and such (Even compared forms a bit with one of the guys from Westmont once). I have come to the conclusion that a HIGH percentage of Law enforcment types are into the martial arts. It makes perfect sense that that would also apply to "Secret Agents".

[cerebus]

Wellllll, this is a little different. This guy claims to have been an international assassin for an Interpol hit team.

[rogue]

Interesting. Nothing is impossible.

directed by a government agency that denied their existence.

Whose government? Which agency?

Steinberg vs Interpol: Operation Clambake.

Searching for David Banners books on Amazon I got this message....

Books search results: we were unable to find exact matches for your search for introduction to windows 95/98 and prentice hall.

Books search results: we were unable to find exact matches for your search for Utilizing the semantic web and IA press .

Gene, did you check the list of publications. I can't find IA Press, do they have a web site?

On a hillside in rural Japan, Bannon was in a vicious fight with a rice farmer.3 The baseball bat Bannon had been using as a weapon broke in half during the struggle, but he managed to take the blunt end and ram it into his opponent's throat, bringing him to the ground. The farmer had nearly killed him. "This guy's qi was unbelievable," Bannon says. "I figure maybe Hung Gar." Bannon survived, but only just. "His arm techniques reflected lots of hours with the wooden dummy and he had that low, stable balance point that's so common to Hung Gar stylists. Impossibly fast, this guy, and he didn't telegraph at all. If my partner hadn't done a lot of damage first, I'd be dead."

Huh? Hung Gar in Japan? Killer rice farmers? I don't know if it's the writers style but the story seems odd to me.

"elite forces which depended upon recruiting the most aggressive men...who had prison records," particularly for assassination missions with the Navy SEALS in Vietnam,

Uh, OK. Book the quote is from...

I really don't see anything in the notes at the bottom of the page to support the story. Bad journalism.

[Vash]

Searched for David Bannon on Amazon, found this.

Tried Bruce Banner, found this
and this.

[Vio]

I Read it, dont believe a word, sounds like a movie. some quotes

Originally posted by cerebus
On a joint assignment, Bannon fell in love with French counter-terrorist agent Sidelle Rimbaud.8 They planned on marriage; she was killed in a firefight with North Korean child smugglers and terrorists in Marseilles.

Originally posted by cerebus
Combined, these clandestine operatives have saved over 300 children and killed hundreds of slavers, pornographers and terrorists.

Originally posted by cerebus
On a hillside in rural Japan, Bannon was in a vicious fight with a rice farmer.3 The baseball bat Bannon had been using as a weapon broke in half during the struggle, but he managed to take the blunt end and ram it into his opponent's throat, bringing him to the ground.

[cerebus]

Heh, heh. Ya see my point Rogue? Just in that one quote I could say "Huh?" soooooo many times!

Why is he fighting a Japanese rice farmer? With a baseball bat.

Since when is Hung Gar Kung Fu popular amongst Japanese rice farmers? How can he tell it was Hung Gar from his conditioned forearms, low balance point and "chi"? Might the rice farmer have been a karateka instead?

After breaking the bat (how did that happen?), why did he ram the blunt end into the guys throat? I mean, he'd hafta grab the pointed, splintery broken end to do that and striking with the blunt end would be rather less lethal than thrusting the pointy broken end into the guy's throat, no?

Anyway, lotsa "WTF?" in that whole story.

[rogue]

Exactly, and how long were these guys fighting? This guy is a deadly killer and it sounds like they were going on for some time.

steel edge of a black Ka-Bar fighting knife glittering as it plunges into the terrorist's neck, then rips out, severing the vocal chords and jugular.

I'll have to check on this technique, I mean that's alot of neck to cut through. Not to mention blood and escaping air for the throat wound.

the man and his South Korean partner step inside the two remaining guards' AK rifles and deliver quick, efficient blows to kill the North Koreans. They are wrapped in Kevlar, the Korean carries a Heckler & Koch Mark 23 .45 ACP pistol; his companion a Beretta 92FS 9mm. Communicating with signals developed over years of training,

Huh?

I'm no assasin but something sounds off. Could be the writer.

[Royal Dragon]

steel edge of a black Ka-Bar fighting knife glittering as it plunges into the terrorist's neck,

Huh?? How does a BLACKedout knife "Glitter"? I have Two Ka-Bar's. Both are flat black specifically so they DON'T glitter and give a soldiers position away. The factory MAKES them that way for a reason.

the man and his South Korean partner step inside the two remaining guards' AK rifles and deliver quick, efficient blows to kill the North Koreans

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He can do this, but can't fight off a rice farmer with a BAT??

[Octavius]

Internpol secret assassination squad? AFAIK Interpol is a law enforcement information clearinghouse, and they don't really have any jurisdiction over anyone in any country - they help coordinate the law enforcement efforts across international borders. Since when did they start having super secret hit squads?

[cerebus]

Heh, heh. Read the article and learn the secrets young Grasshoppa'!

[Banjos_dad]

And did he bring the bat to the islands for the purpose of killing farmers, or was it a Japanese baseball bat that was laying around.

Isn't that like a ninja assassin coming to Kansas & killing a corn farmer with a sumo thong?

The Hung Gar master was just posing as a farmer in this tale of intrigue. Why should that be less plausible than a kung fu fighting secret agent posing as a manure saleman...or what's more likely, vice versa

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[Kristoffer]

Gene, don't you think bull**** like this is what gives the CMA community a bad ****ing rep? This annoys me...

[Royal Dragon]

You know the Bad acting Good Kung Fu guys? I think it's those guys feeling out a new script. If it gets the attention they want, they will do the movie. If not, they won't.

Yes, No?


Maybe?

Or am I just nuts?


























Shhhhh, don't answer that last one

[Vash]

RD, I'd be inclined to agree, however, the Kwoon guys don't suxors like this steaming pile of poo.