Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 07, 2012

Lol. I do believe Gunther will smack Knox with that book.

krav maga??……..more like doofus beaten upus!

wonder why Knute’s shirt says #2! in the first panel and ?! in the last panel??

And how interesting that Greg changes pictures on Knute’s front shirt. #2! then ?? Are those references to a #2 in the book and the ?? a puzzlement to what #2 is about….Or what? Lol.

I bet Rosa knows Krav Maga.

Gotta get that boom boom boom!

Gunth knows…words, especially the printed ones, are more powerful than a fist!

Kicking people in the nuts is the only chance Gunther has of winning a fight.

Gunther, Sweetheart, I realize that hormones have dropped your IQ by a few points, but… Dude I can’t think of anything to say besides Gunther is giving a bad name to nerds.

I’ve been waiting for someone to pick up on that… I’m pretty sure that name was chosen quite deliberately.

Krav maga is a real self-defense.

I wonder if Greg Evans was meaning for Gunther to be Jewish being that Krav Maga is an Israeli self-defense?

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To Dfowensby and Sjs(from yesterday’s strip):Ok I do have a real life situation in which I did deal with a school bully and didnt get into trouble for it either. Hrer is what happened:OK when I was growing up I was smaller than usual. I was picked on because of that and I had to take it and like Gunther it was always on my shoulders to explian what happened. I got through that chapter with the usual bruises(sp? i forgot) and bumps. As I went through my teen years I did have a growth spurt as well as a weight spurt (I did wind up overweight but I did have the streghnth to handle the weight pretty well). OK fast forward to 11th grade Gym class where the gym teacher (who happened to be the football coach and the high school wrestling coach) was teaching us college wrestling. We were matched up according to weight and Me being the heaviest in the class was matched up with the next heaviest guy in the class not to mention I outweighed him by 80-85 pounds. During the week we were taught the moves and on Friday the teacher wanted to grade us on what we learned. Ok It was my turn with the guy that was picking on us and we did the moves and we had about 10 minutes left and he told us to do freestyle. NOw with the girls gym class watching us I d di freestyle to the point where he was giving up (almost crying). The bully guy ( I cant remember his name) said he was going to tell the prinipal and I said go ahead the gym teacher told me to do freestyle so I did. I was declared the winner of the match and what eventually happened was that the bully guy never bothered anyone again. The following week the gym teacher asked me if I wanted to try out for the wrestling team and I declined because I never was any good at any sports. He said I looked pretty good with that one in the class. I said that was because I knew how to play rough and I also had the stregnth to throw my weight around. He was dissapointed but he said OK its your choice. WHat eventually happened was the bully guy never bothered anyone again and when he did try my name was brought up and I was told his face turned white at the sound of my name. For a few weeks I was told he never did anything again. So sorry for this long message and I will be quiet now. :D Enjoy.

Krav maga?! That’s serious stuff, and definitely not “for dummies”! Looks like Gunther intends to put a permanent hurt on Leslie Knox (assuming, of course, that he learns the aggressive krav maga in practice and not just in theory)!

Isn’t Krav Maga that Indian book with all the different ahem positions? :)

Oh geez, Gunth has to learn his skills from a book.

Oh well, He’d better PRACTICE extentsively FIRST on the DUMMY, er I MEAN, Knute there…..,

Krav Maga might sound aggressive, but it is not about “hurting as much as possible” your opponent…………… is about finishing the fight as soon as possible

Krav Maga ‘for Dummies’? I would hope not. It is an intense martial art, far more intense than any Japanese, French or Brazilian martial art. It works your body to the max and an experienced practitioner can seriously injure an attacker.

Lethality is just death. FATALITY, as proved by Mortal Kombat, is gloriously over-the-top death.

And Krav Maga is FATAL. Just play Splinter Cell: Conviction if you don’t believe me.

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Amd there is a “Krav Maga for Beginners.” Go to www.amazon.com/Beginners-Step-Step-Easiest…/1569756619. Excelsior!

Careful, Leslie! Gunther knows Krav Maga – and a few other Hebrew words!

Did anyone else notice that in the first panel, Knute had a “#” on his shirt but in the last panel it disappeared? And the “2” became a “?”

So first he talks to the guidance councellor and the he decides to stand and fight. Good choice. Might even be better if Gunther saught him out to call his bluff. I think a true bully would fall to that pressure. But being the agressor is not Gunthers style. And Leslie, in the current world situation, has learnd how terrorism works. All you have to do is threaten and wait.

I figured he would just sneak up behind the guy and without warning shove him again when the guy wasn’t looking, and then pretend it was all an accident instead of telling him what his problem was, and then hope a teacher intervenes again so he wouldn’t have to say or do anything else. You know, because Gunther’s so brave and all.

Fighting isn’t the best answer, but if you have to, just remember to keep your fists up.

And go in low so that when you defend and fight back, you’ll have more strength in your punches and kicks.

zblair: You have a good eye for detail.

Am I the only one that would love to see Dirk come just in time to rescue Gunther?

Really! Making Dirk the good guy would complicate EVERYTHING! And in any storyline, that is a good thing!

Watch out, leslie. There’s more to Gunther than what you can SEE!

Best way Gunther can win a fight with Les Knox, either, A) avoid him (difficult at best). B) hope a teacher is around when Les decides to descend on him (unlikely) or C) learn some self-defense techniques (time consuming but much more likely to succeed). As far as I’ve noticed, kicking any male in the groin is more likely to make things worse rather than better. Honestly, @Fat Tony Balducci, if some nerd walked up and kicked you in the groin, wouldn’t you want to find some secluded spot to beat the pulp out of him? (Of course you would) Survival, in Gunther’s case, means thinking his way through and, eventually, out of the situation.

Nevertheless, you know Greg is going to save him, somehow. Gunther is way to popular a character to allow someone like Les Knox to beat the stuffin’s out of him.

ZacBSM — I sport a second-degree black belt in Shotokan kara-te, brown in Chung-do-kwan taekwondo, and a brown in aikido; it’s obvious to me you have never had a class. There are many “natural weapons” in a female’s arsenal against male attackers. The eyes, throat and diaphragm are all good targets when you know how to use them. And, yes, some men are able to withstand tremendous assault to the groin, while others (like me) are extremely susceptible. Not only that, but numerous leverage techniques can thwart an opponent, sometimes much more easily than strikes or kicks. I know this is only a cartoon, but your message here sends the wrong one to any female that might be monitoring these posts.

like anything in rl, he needs to practice and not in a single day like in Kung Fu Panda. if you are inexperienced, you can actually break your fist when you punch the guy’s face. which will be really embarassing.

on the other hand, i applaud gunther’s effort on being pro-active. if he has at least a few weeks to prepare, he might stand a chance. but he needs to hit the gym and gain some muscle mass like brad.

Krav Maga is essentially dirty fighting and it’s no joke if properly applied. It would be both funny and scary if Gunther can immediately apply this from a book and put a hurt on Leslie. It will also make for an awesome commercial for Krav Maga.

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Wasn’t he at Helm’s Deep?

Krav Maga is an Isreali form of martial art. It has no defensive moves it is pure attack. At this point though Gunther is ahead on points, Knox will be seen as picking on the little guy, a little guy that the entire school sees as the nerdy mild mannered guy, while Knox, an apparent new comer is the thug.

If Leslie menaces him, Gunther should give him a copy of the criminal penalties for assault, introduce Knute as his witness, and ask Leslie if he is ready to risk a little time in a holding cell where very big & ugly guys might smile at him and call him “fresh meat” or Suzie.

I hate to rain on the parade of some of the martial artists here (I am NOT one so I make no special claims), but according to the sources I have Krav Maga DOES have defensive moves. It’s a hybrid form with a philosophy emphasizing threat neutralization, simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers (note that), and aggression. But the basic idea is to get you out of a dangerous situation by whatever means necessary as quickly as possible. Just what Gunther would find useful, if he could actually pull off a useful defense.

I don’t understand the fascination and love affair of Krav Maga people have. It was created by Imi Lichterfeld for the Israeli defense force and commandos. Not for civilian hand to hand or street survival.

Basically, if your rifle fails, and your handgun fails, and your knife fails, then you only need to know enough hand to hand (Krav Maga) to survive until your buddy shoots the bad guy. It was never really designed as a comprehensive fighting art.

But in some circles it has good marketing, there are some unscrupulous trainers that let you take a couple weekends of Krav Maga training, and you will be certified to teach it in your own dojo.

Notice the technique illustrated in panel 2 – the elbow strike. Elbows and knees are good weapons, bigger and harder than fists and feet and less likely to break. Looking at that elbow strike, I can see Gunther taking out Leslie’s nose.

If they end up in an actual fight, it’s not going to be to-the-death. I assume Evans got copyright permission from the “for Dummies” publisher, and that neither Krav Maga nor book-learned martial arts is going to come off badly in this story.

While it is true that in real life, a lot of regular training is necessary for proficient martial arts, in the Luanniverse I think it’s plausible that Gunther could break Leslie’s nose (and remember, Leslie may be taller than Gunther but he is skinny, and his nose is an inviting target).

And then, having tasted blood, Gunther finds that he likes it and enrolls in a local mixed martial arts gym and goes on to a career in the cage, his dreams of becoming a fashion designer cast off without a glimmer of remorse . . .

The best defense is a good attorney. Or maybe the New York Giants. Come on folks, it’s a cartoon strip, where’s your creativity?

Perhaps Gunther would probably bumble his way through some of the maneuvers at least enough to knock the Lester character on his butt and cause him to think twice about any further threats to the Gunth.

@Activist1234:You welcome. I had fun doing it too. That was long time ago in the school year 1977-78 in 11th grade. I finally graduated in June 1979. I never really did lose the weight. I dont remember what my weight was at the time but I am pretty sure it was not as much as it is now. NOt by much but a little more now.

Scenario: Gunther leaps up to do a high kick, his shoe flies off and knocks Leslie in the head knocking him out. Mad Magazine circa: 197(?).

I have kicked maybe a thousand guys in the nuts. If you want to test, you can be next. Just look me up.And it ain’t quite the ‘finisher’ that you may be deluded in believing.

Krav Mag is pretty good, BUT it takes time and training, like all fighting. It’s not the system, once you get past the basics.It’s just like any specialized form of knowledge>>>Time ON Task is where it’s at.

Rosa will probably kick Leslie’s behind for Gunth, BUT he stood up for her, which is proof of his caring for her…he can LEARN to protect her.

My name IS Leslie: and I wouldn’t have HAD to learn to fight if my name had been Bob or John or….but the time in the Green Berets was pretty good, and I’m finally catching up with my lit and music, thanks.

And yes, I know…from BOTH ends of the experience…about the famous ‘kick in the nuts’…lots of fools and foolishness being blowharded out there. Caveat Emptor, and don’t mess with me or my girl…

There is a well known case of an Australian sportsman called Peter Crimmins who was flicked by a wet towel in the testes. Contracted cancer shortly afterwards and died. While the “jury is out” regarding a causal link between trauma and cancer, it is considered plausible.Testicular cancer is real and is not prostrate cancer.

haha, good one! XD