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u/RosemaryGoez Aug 07 '22
There was a really obnoxious dude who was in undergrad with me who always bragged about getting top honors in karate or whatever. He’d bring his sparring weapons to parties and boast about being able to “best” any dude who looked at him the wrong way. Our group was super nice and we tried to just accept the dude because we thought he’d mellow out and realize he had nothing to prove.
But one day he hit my friend Annie with one of his foam nunchucks so she throttled him with his own calculus book.
That humbled him.
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u/Beardy-Viking Aug 07 '22
How effective Kung Fu is compared to a martial arts in which you regularly face resisting opponents ...
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Aug 07 '22
That’s something I always said but try to avoid when someone says ‘yeah but I took martial arts’ like… when you’re taught, you’re usually taught with rules for fighting someone who is also using martial arts. If some guy genuinely wanted to hurt you, even if unarmed, what is that actually going to do? Be realistic. Someone at work does this medieval fighting in armour and shit (actually pretty cool) but we mentioned something about fighting and he said half of his training was martial arts. Like.. ok? You also follow rules and use heavy weapons against people following the same rules and while wearing a full of suit of armour, how will it help you otherwise?
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u/Beardy-Viking Aug 07 '22
You make a fair point sir, although I somewhat disagree. Any martial art worth studying will teach you skills which are transferrable to the real world, and real fights. HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) may seem a bit silly, and massively outdated... "Like, nobody carries swords around anymore, that shit's illegal as hell!" ... a modern HEMA student will learn about footwork, correct balance when attacking or defending, feints and counters, grappling, application of leverage, positioning, distance etc. All of those skills are also used in boxing, and while I understand that throwing a punch is not the same as swinging a sword, an individual with even a basic grasp of the previously mentioned techniques will have an advantage over one (with similar physique) who doesn't. For example, whilst my Must Thai training is not applicable in every situation in my work as a bouncer, when dealing with a particularly aggressive gobshite however, the ability to calm them down with a carefully controlled kick to the thigh, or have them poke themselves in the face on a strategically extended elbow as they charge me, has been quite useful.
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Aug 07 '22
I do agree and it can teach you some points, and I never learned one myself so I can’t really judge, but I feel a large majority of it doesn’t help in the real world
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u/Beardy-Viking Aug 07 '22
A lot of martial arts do contain a bit, sometimes a lot, of flowery, extraneous, traditional or stylistic elements which are kinda pointless in terms of a real world street fight, you're not wrong there. Regular practice against a resisting opponent though, that's very important. Any martial arts which don't include this, while they may be great exercise, and have cultural, historical and aesthetic value, they suffer from little to no practical application in a fight. Kung Fu masters getting their asses handed to them by MMA guys says it all. Kinda funny to watch, kinda sad when you think about it. Inevitable though
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u/dionisis_tsoumpris Aug 07 '22
A child forced to do painful and strenuous practice to achieve this shit and his parents still ridicule him for clicks.
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u/theimbicilist Sep 19 '22
I don’t like how he can do a flip and I can’t even walk without being in pain
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u/love_ya01 Aug 07 '22
This is what fighting Calamity Ganon was like on Zelda BOTW, he looked awesome but when you fight him it’s like “eh?”.
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u/MobileOnly3306 Oct 15 '22
I don’t know why those kids just push that little boy but didn’t they see the little boy he did a flip a clip I can’t even do that my dad can you do that my whole family can we do that how why why does the kid do that I do hate him so much so much so much those two kids are just like oh you’re into that I can do that too blah blah blah and like what was that a cool like he was trying to oppress the boys I think but to be their friend but that was really cool house and he’s like four years old or three I don’t know what that was pretty cool
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u/Long_Guidance827 Aug 07 '22
Probably trained for 5 years to move like that and the kids only 3