Meditations on Machete vs Iron Bar Fights in London By John Steele
Richard Miller, our London correspondent, sent an international migrating duck to reach me in my tent out here in the Victorian scrub (the duck I promptly ate after it disgorged its message), asking what I thought of the machete vs iron bar fight, since I am the resident Alor.org martial arts man. Well, having looked at two punks swinging bits of steel at each other I am not impressed. Leave aside the issues of social breakdown; that is the new normal now. What I find disturbing is the lack of skill of the combatants, who just swing at each other. No fine skill such as the parry, no ducking and weaving, no footwork, no bladesmanship. As punks and thugs, they give the dark community of ruffians, stretching out over the centuries, a bad name.
“A knife fight between two youths on the top deck of a bus in front of shocked passengers is being investigated by police.
Video has emerged of the altercation involving one who brandished a machete with an eight-inch long blade, and another who held a long, thin metal bar.
The pair, who both wore black coats and covered their faces, were filmed using the weapons to take swipes at each other as the bus travelled through Streatham in south London.
In the stairwell, a third person was slapping what appeared to be a long sword against the handrail.
Passengers watched on as the fight lasted "for about five minutes" before the youths left the vehicle.
Police officers arrived, but all those allegedly involved had already fled.
A person who filmed yesterday afternoon's incident, but did not want to be named, said: "The kids with the knives came on the bus in Streatham.”
Such is life in a culturally rich and diverse city.
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