Sometimes in Pool and Life When Something Appears Bad it's Actually the Best Thing!

ive always concealed carry even before legal . if it saves my life or someone elses i will deal with law afterward .
ive had my permit now seems long time. i never go anywhere with out packing

CJ:
Any interesting stories of the likely multiple occasions when you necessarily had to use your martial arts skills to subdue a situation?

Thanks in advance.

Arnaldo

Fun Night

Playing in a low dive near my home one night there was a strange vibe in the air. I never carried or played with my own cue during that time but I went and got it, laid it on my case, and went back to playing with a house cue.

Awhile later three guys I had a previous run in with and had hit one, fought another, showed up. William showed up also. William was a friend of mine, pool hall variety. He was a fairly recently retired pro boxer out of Houston. The three guys were making plans for me, most of the rest of the bar were making plans for William over the ex-wife of someone that wasn't even there that William was seeing. I knew her and her ex-husband, a small world!

I was shooting pool with some pretty entertaining guys when the poop hit the fan! I found myself against a stage, my cue stick butt held chest high in both hands. No bumper and I planned on using both ends. William was beside me. Twenty-four guys in front of us wanting to whip our asses, or did they? It was soon obvious that the ones in back were leaning forward while those nearest William and I were very noticeably leaning backward, nobody wanting to be pushed into range of William's fists or my stick!

Things eventually quietened down. William ended up arm wrestling and beating all twenty-four guys facing us, some twice, one behind the other. I went back to shooting pool. When the guys I was playing with were ready to leave they asked if I wanted to ride with them. They were concerned there might still be trouble. I did, rode with them a lot during the next ten years or so, and they rode with me. Friends and playing buddies, still friendly, we have all just moved on with life. One of those guys had some pretty blond sisters I spent a good bit of time with too!

All in all, worked out well with friendships that would have never happened without what was almost a very ugly brawl. Funny thing, when I picked up on the "bad vibe" not one of the people later involved in the festivities was there other than myself. Felt it a few times after that, always listened!

Hu

CJ Wiley said:

. . . .I've been involved in over 50 bar fights . . .

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CJ,
I'm certain you've seen the Patrick Swayze film: Roadhouse a few times, and judging by the above quote, you had every reason to relate closely to your semi-lookalike (IMO) Patrick. Seems you've lived a real-life version of what the actor portrayed.

I look forward to some possible Youtube audio describing some of the situations and their resolution. I've noticed that in a number of Steven Seagal scenes it appears that via post-production editing, his unreal lighting-fast multiple punch groupings -- visually almost a blur -- are radically emphasized by speeding up the original on-set camera footage.

A friend of mine who's a senior citizen black-belt once told us billiards club members that he himself had extremely fast hands and was once clocked on-camera during a competition as throwing 35 punches in 2 seconds. Had to believe, but I was reluctant to test him, obviously.

Arnaldo

CJ, what discipline of Martial Arts did you take up?

Bic D said:

CJ, what discipline of Martial Arts did you take up?

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Let CJ explain it himself of course, but his website briefly mentions that he's a second-degree black belt instructor in Ji Mu Do, a combination of eight martial arts!

http://www.cjwileybilliards.com/about-cj.html

Very good article on that site with complete info about his life background and career as a road player, tournament player, and semi-retired room owner -- his own place in TX.

Arnaldo

I was playing at CJ's one weekend night coming from Waco and someone threw a pool ball thru the glass. CJ beautiful wife came from around the bar and started raising all kinds of hell.

CJ Wiley said:

That's unusual, can't recall ever having a pool ball through a window (pool balls had definitely been thrown, that's always exciting )!

.....maybe it's best to block out some memories, I've seen enough violence in bars for 7 lifetimes, the worst was when I was in Albuquerque NM and a guy got his throat cut with a beer bottle. My girlfriend was a country singer in the band and offered to clean the blood up out of the bathroom.....it was literally a bloody mess!

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CJ?

I sent you a PM a couple of days ago.

r/DCP

Pack an axe you might meet a tree.

CJ Wiley said:

Unfortunately in this day and age guns won't do much good. Maybe against some common criminals, but that's the least of our worries, the greatest enemies have most people convinced they are our "leaders".

Bizarre times, we are heading towards a totalitarian technocracy cleverly disguised and it appears most of the world is buying into the false binaries and false flags.

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People act on emotion then justify with logic, even when it's twisted, and reeks of entitlement.