Indy pulls out a pistol and takes two shots. >end scene<
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They should totally add this to Dancing With the Stars.
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Iâd watch that!
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I recall watching a demo from an American Kung-Fu master, and the whole thing seemed a bit prancey, but he had also sent a group of muggers to the hospital. On the other hand, one of the least realistic sports is Tae Kwon Do where the scoring system apparently encourages the fighters to stand perfectly still so they get a back-kick to the head, often in a âfightâ between two people of very different skill levels.
Also many of the martial arts that are less violent are practiced by people who have multiple black belts, who are serious old school sensei.
MMA fights 20 years ago were fascinating when people from different styles and in very different weight classes fought, although watching the the Tae Kwon Do guys get pounded consistently by anonymous judoka who barely knew how to punch got dull. Today itâs steroid fueled meatheads.
Thank you! The second link was broken when I tried it, but I was able to backtrack from part 3.
"Most people think of martial arts and fighting as being more or less synonymous. I see them as a Venn diagram of two sets that overlap by a tiny margin."
Although she still has an illusion or two (those Gracies have amazing PR) sheâs definitely got the right perspective.
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When i was training in an Okinawan style of karate, our sensei would specifically have sessions to teach just self defense. Simple and effective techniques. He would always tell us âdonât try anything fancy. Disable your attacker, then run.â He was especially fond of kicks to the kneesâŚ
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Whenever one of my teachers found himself in front of a class of brand new students, he would demonstrate the âfirst techniqueâ in Aikido. I would take a wooden practice knife and hold it threateningly in front of him from about five feet away. He would ready himself and then take off running in the opposite direction.
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I liked our senseiâs approach of not taking any shortcuts in teaching aikido. Yes show simple techniques, but for the advanced stuff donât teach students how to do it sloppy and then work for years unlearning that so they can do it right. I liked his demo where I grabbed his wrist and I expected some familiar wrist lock - instead he raised his hand, causing my entire arm to lock up all by itself and I could not let go, then he waltzed me around the mat
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When you say âfirst martial art,â are you referring to the time required for a beginner to be able to effectively defend themselves, or to something else?
Driving the bus all the way back to the original article, it is an amazing and beautifully choreographed martial arts display; take it for what it is.
That out of the way, I had an instructor who gave us the breakdown on a lot of these so-called specialists who train Special Forces guys. The military contracts a lot of outside specialists for everything from close combat to serving corn dogs. If you declare yourself a trainer and a SEAL walks into your basement dojo, and you show him how to do one thing that he may or may not already know, legally you can say that youâve trained SEALS. Thatâs why a lot of companies that manufacture total crap âweaponsâ to military training facilities free of charge; just so they can put âTested by Special Forces!â on the shrink wrap.
And some trainers who have gotten continual writeups in various fighting and weapon magazines are just given praise for no other reason than because theyâve been around for so long, they must be experts. Their seminars always seem to have separate classes that are for military and law enforcement only. Guys like that are ripping off the general public and those who serve the country.
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i hope she has really good eyeball insuranceâŚyikes.
this is impressive, but all it takes is one mistake, and by mistake i mean a fraction of a second off in timingâŚiâm not sure if i was more impressed or worried.
Yes, I agree with all of the above. With a good teacher it doesn't matter what style it says on the dojo. But with a bad teacher it is much easier to make aikido or Kung fu (for different reasons) useless or actively counterproductive, than karate or jiu jitsu.
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Ah, yes. Iâll add tai chi as a specific example of kung fu that isnât rapidly applicable to self-defense on the street. Though possibly that one deserves a category of its own, something like âmartial art people donât realize is a martial art.â
I first read your original comment to be saying that there are styles generally better suited to beginners. Which is an interesting discussion to have, but wasnât actually what youâd written.
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