How to select a bunch of points of a path for removal in GIMP?

[Ofnuts]

With the aforementioned ofn-path-edits, two ways:

1) cut two segments to isolate the part you want to remove from the rest
2) Either use the "Edit>Break path apart" to get one path per stroke
3) Or make a rough freehand selection around one end of the stroke and then "Edit>Delete strokes"