As Mason said, KaVir, "so what?".
I'd think that at least several people on these boards, myself included, and probably you (assuming your claims were correct), could punch through said wooden armor. There is a vast difference in metal armor vs wooden armor. I'd likely bust up my hand and that'd be it on metal armor. The thread has kind of jumped from point to point, but the point at the heart of the matter is that - you can't punch through metal armor. Period.
Thel: Mmm. Definitely. Eastern arts, at "low" levels, suck in fights. It is almost better to be entirely untrained if we are speaking of low levels of training. Of course, I'd like to see a spar of the Doshu against your users of JKD and such - that'd be quite interesting, imo.
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