This week's question: With incidents of sky rage rocketing, flight attendants are being offered free training on how to subdue unruly airline passengers with eye pokes, double ear slaps, and groin kicks. If a self-defense expert were to create a new marshal art to be used by flight attendants, what could the fighting style be named?
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THE WINNER: "Fly-kwondo"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
SECOND PLACE: "Cabin crew-jitsu"
Rebecca Burgan, Petaluma, California
THIRD PLACE: "SkyMaul"
Nico Lee, Newton, Massachusetts
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Mile-high clubbed"
Susan Krug, Durham, California
"Mile high-YAH"
Melissa Moyer, Mesa, Arizona
"Aisle-kido"
Matt Mistele, Palo Alto, California
"Fight and flight"
Jim Durning, Dayton, Ohio
"Take-off take-down"
Rob Huffman, Fredericksburg, Virginia
"Sky brawl"
Liz Rowe, Wilmington, Delaware
"Jujetsu"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Coffee, tea or knee?"
Robert Riegert, West Allis, Wisconsin
"Stewjitsu"
Ian-Andrew McKenzie, East Point, Georgia
"Cobra sky"
David Bartalsky, Waterbury, Connecticut
"Jet Li"
Jesse Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut
"Prepare for landing a punch"
Diane Ross, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania
"Delta force"
Eric Stagliano, Carrollton, Georgia
"Seat belting"
Bill Winslow, Alexandria, Virginia
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