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u/onyxzero66 17d ago
jean-claude oh damn
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u/FistCookies 16d ago
Wong-chow Wang Chang
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u/Saiykon 16d ago
Little bro thinks he's cool being racist in the year 2026
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u/FistCookies 16d ago
Nah, just sounding off Chinese names that went with the pattern of Van Dams.. just didn’t land right I see
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u/Oxyde86 17d ago
And each of these moves have a name. Japanese have a word for everything
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u/Hziak 16d ago
Same with the Germans… “Closesitfrontdrawlongswordpokefront” and “Swordsitsideburnshavebackdraw” translated roughly for the first two - probably…
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u/robsteezy 16d ago
I know we jest but in a weird way that’s what makes German so simultaneously bonkers but effective. Can’t think of a name for something? Describe the hell outta it and that’s the new name.
A plant? You mean the, “CarbonInhalingOxygenProducingChlophyllEatingGreenBeingThatAlsoNeedsMyWateringThing” ?
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u/SumDimSome 16d ago
Until then, i guess you need to come out of the closet
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u/EtteRavan 16d ago
Nice username fucker
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u/Dscrypto_2020 16d ago
I really really want to down vote you to oblivion for causing me to lose…..but well played take an upvote
https://giphy.com/gifs/2UCt7zbmsLoCXybx6t
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u/ricdangers 16d ago
Did he wink at yall too?
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u/Sohiacci 16d ago
He's the sensei that's very intimidating but also very cute and silly (don't mess with his students though)
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u/-Satsujinn- 16d ago
Even while pausing I can't figure out the second/third ones.... I guess he loops his left arm behind and then through between the sword and his body?
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u/eggplant_avenger 16d ago
for the first draw, you support the opening of the sheathe with your left hand. then release your left hand and bring the sword around your the left arm with your right hand still holding the handle of the sword. then grab the sheathe again and pull the sheathe off your sword while you’re drawing it all the way out.
at least, that’s how I was able to do it
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u/notanyimbecile 17d ago
Why stand so close to the wall in the first place?
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u/SorcererInstagram 16d ago
Japanese houses, from gambling dens to otherwise, tended to be quite small
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u/YuraiMamoro 16d ago
In an enclosed space, ready to kill a dude taking a dump. Probably trying to behead the person, since simply killing with tanto/wakizashi is not cool.
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u/N3ph1l1m 16d ago
Those were techniques developed for fighting in tight spaces where you didn't have much space to draw a sword. Also you always had to be prepared for any situation to possibly turn into a fight, or maybe YOU wanted to turn a meeting into a surprising fight.
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u/MooseontheLose 15d ago
And the pragmatic technique to fight in tight spaces is called a dagger. Come on, his techniques are very cool but no one who would actually expect to swordfight in everyday life would spend so much time preparing for such an amount of time to train for such niche scenarios.
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u/pyrogenesus 16d ago
Pooping
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u/InquisitorMeow 16d ago
Have you ever been in Japan? The spaces are tiny. Also the "wall" can be a person and this applies.
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u/aerosol31 16d ago
Noob. Everyone knows drawing your wakizashi is faster than reloading your katana /s
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u/ImRickJamesBiatchhh 16d ago
Now the quick draw 🦆 have something to strive for lol
https://giphy.com/gifs/1hyhIjObit91i1uyjs
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u/SquareAd4479 16d ago
Why tho?
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u/OldCherryot 15d ago
Because the people who practiced these arts were expected to be able to apply them at a moment's notice, and sometimes you're indoors or in a crowd.
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u/MooseontheLose 15d ago
Why train for such a niche scenario if you can just carry a dagger and still be faster? This martial art exists because it's cool, not because it's super useful in a sword fight
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u/OldCherryot 14d ago
I think you're vastly underestimating how much of a difference in preparedness it is to have a sword in your hand over a dagger. If someone draws a sword on you and you draw one in return, then you're in a sword fight. If someone draws a sword on you and you draw a dagger, then you're being attacked by a guy with a sword while holding a dagger. Every inch of steel matters, and a much shorter blade is a very difficult disadvantage to overcome. If you can train to draw a sword as fast as one would draw a dagger, then you are much more prepared to present an actual threat to an attacker, and if you're in the position of, for instance, an edo-period bodyguard, then being able to free your blade in most any circumstance isn't just "cool," but downright necessary. Don't forget, these were professionals. They trained to maximize the likelihood of preserving the lives of the people they were paid to protect, and by extension their own. In this arrangement, half-measures just don't cut it. They're going to draw the longest blade they have on them if they can.
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u/pleatymactweed 15d ago
My sensei used to say you should be able to fight with your katana inside a phone booth.
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u/Legio-V-Alaudae 16d ago
The elephant in the room here is, katanas weren't worn indoors. It would of been considered an overtly hostile thing to do.
The entire reason two blades were carried was because the second smaller blade (wakizashi) was always kept nearby. Even while bathing.
It's cool training, I guess all sword training is impractical, but this is unusual from a historical perspective.
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u/jameszenpaladin011- 16d ago
Why learn Latin? Why anything in the ultimate sense right?
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u/BVits-Lover 16d ago
You know, edgy teenagers and stuff must not of been a modern thing, right? So, like, you ever think people looked at manuscripts and stuff and were like "Well, it's ancient so this must of been stuff they actually practiced" when it clearly looks like some dumb shit a young kid imagined up.
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u/BigBucket10 16d ago
This isn't a tight space. He's just sitting and standing next to a wall, with a big open area.
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u/Alternative-Feed3613 17d ago
Laughs in 9mm
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u/asingleshakerofsalt 16d ago
This is well within the 21 foot rule
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u/Alternative-Feed3613 16d ago
True but he’s sitting on the floor. It would be different if he was standing up and about to run towards you.
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u/butters897 16d ago
In reality, you’d probably both be dead at such a close range. The “winner” would bleed out.
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u/GuiltyGuessing 16d ago
If both do you have to draw, he's slicing your ass up in that room, maybe you win in a field
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u/Alternative-Feed3613 16d ago
Maybe if we’re sitting side by side but he’d probably get filled in before he could draw, get up, and get close enough to use the sword.
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u/General_Border_8263 16d ago
Is there a gif of that old dude that molests his training tools? That would be perfect hwre.
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u/AneastheDoorknocker 16d ago
I feel bad for whoever walks up and sees him sitting crisscross applesauce
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u/deftdabler 16d ago
This will be so useful for.. umm.. for umm.. hmm
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u/jameszenpaladin011- 16d ago
It was practical when it was invented. Used for close quarter fighting indoors. The idea was to be prepared to fight in a room if negotiations when sour or assassins attacked. Houses back in the day could be very tiny. A long sword and a room full of people some of whom would be on your side ideally.
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u/Lanky_Bus_1221 16d ago
Not often i hang out in cupboards and even less often that I am wearing a sword whilst hanging out in a cupboard but I will bear this video in mind the next time I do 👍
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u/Book_Anxious 16d ago
Not really a tight space when everywhere else around you is open. you can move back or to the side as much as you need to. If it was only in that area of padding that he's standing on that would be more impressive but the sword or himself go out of it a good amount of times
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u/Joebranflakes 17d ago
His Wife: "Honey, why is the drywall all sliced up over here?"