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Tai Chi? You mean what 90 year olds do on the lawn? Might as well take on Tae Kwon Do next, then.
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Barudak posted:Hasnt every other time this been done its a severe and brutally quick victory for the MMA because they use MMA rules aka "grappling is cool and good"? Like if MMA dude had to fight them in their scoring system that might be more interesting Yeah but they're not doing it as a sport. The martial arts guys are straight up saying they're unbeatable and their arts are good for real world self defense, along with other kinds of horseshit. Dudes just disproving that.
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VideoTapir posted:Did that doctor know what appendicitis is? I have no idea. I'm hearing this second hand from my roommates. Please remember these are all stories coming from the good China. I really feel that if I got something terminal that the diagnosis would be kept from me. My fiance's aunt died last fall and we went to see her in the hospital. She had breast cancer I think a decade before. No one once ever said that it came back or even in broken English said it to me, but you could tell by looking at her it came back. But I'm pretty certain they never told her it came back. She was in her mid 60s.
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May 7, 2017 16:27
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Oh ahaha. I was thinking they were supposed to be technical demonstrations/score things but if theyre straight up no holds barred fighting absolutely laffo
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May 7, 2017 16:28
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The self deception levels are insane. That tai chi guy just sort of elegantly holding his hands up while the MMA guy just tucks his chin and starts throwing bombs lmao
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May 7, 2017 16:38
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Barudak posted:Hasnt every other time this been done its a severe and brutally quick victory for the MMA because they use MMA rules aka "grappling is cool and good"? Like if MMA dude had to fight them in their scoring system that might be more interesting Pretty much for the following reasons. 1. Traditional Chinese martial arts "masters" are usually full of bullshit about their abilities. 2. Traditional Chinese martial arts displays require your "opponents" to act out being defeated. 3. Traditional Chinese martial arts are more about exercise and meditation. 4. Traditional Chinese martial arts have been about making money, not fighting ability. 5. Traditional Chinese martial arts masters/proponents are 95% bullshit, (yes, even Bruce Lee and IP man) MMA fighting is about... 1. The most effective way to subdue an opponent. Edit: China proves that Tai Chi can defeat MMA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGrzPU0zDY I don't want to comment on it, and will let you go in fresh. All the China thread vets should understand exactly what is happening in this video/fight. Blistex fucked around with this message at 17:13 on May 7, 2017 |
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May 7, 2017 16:57
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Blistex posted:Pretty much for the following reasons. Ehh I think not all martial arts are equal, like Judo or maybe Krav Maga or Brazillian Jiu Jitsu might do better than Tai Chi/Kung Fu/Karate.
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Private Speech posted:Ehh I think not all martial arts are equal, like Judo or maybe Krav Maga or Brazillian Jiu Jitsu might do better than Tai Chi/Kung Fu/Karate. Just fixed it to say "Chinese" martial arts since we're talking about them, and goons are very literal people. Edit: Krav Maga and Brazillian Jiu Jitsu are not "traditional" martial arts. Blistex fucked around with this message at 17:35 on May 7, 2017 |
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May 7, 2017 17:13
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GoutPatrol posted:I have no idea. I'm hearing this second hand from my roommates. My grandfather-in-law has lung cancer. They basically didn't tell him anything until they started chemo. He's doomed, BTW; just hoping for a few good years.
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May 7, 2017 17:39
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Blistex posted:I don't want to comment on it, and will let you go in fresh. All the China thread vets should understand exactly what is happening in this video/fight. They paid a no-name Iranian MMA fighter (with the traditional Iranian name of Gonzales) more than he's ever earned in his life to go down to a flashy looking kick that almost misses entirely and much face was saved. I like how you can see the fear in Gonzales's eyes when he knocks the Han guy down with a kick.
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May 7, 2017 17:50
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Back in the 50s, dudes would do underground bareknuckle fighting in HK, with next to no rules. Being interested in chinese martial arts this would have been a great thing to behold. 150 years ago, the good stuff was pretty much alive and you could find dudes who could shoot ultra heavy bows and had some real deal fencing and wrestling skills.
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May 7, 2017 17:55
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JaucheCharly posted:Back in the 50s, dudes would do underground bareknuckle fighting in HK, with next to no rules. I saw a documentary about that once with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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May 7, 2017 18:00
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Blistex posted:Edit: Krav Maga and Brazillian Jiu Jitsu are not "traditional" martial arts. Fair point, though they do have codified rules which limit what the competitors can normally do. e: the last part of that video  It's worth watching for that at least, and they replay it a bunch of times too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGrzPU0zDY&t=229s (starts from the replay) Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:11 on May 7, 2017 |
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May 7, 2017 18:06
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Blistex posted:Edit: China proves that Tai Chi can defeat MMA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGrzPU0zDY hahahaha that is the fakest looking poo poo ever
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May 7, 2017 18:11
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VideoTapir posted:My grandfather-in-law has lung cancer. They basically didn't tell him anything until they started chemo. There's a pretty good This American Life episode about a Chinese family in a similar situation. The granddaughter wants to tell her grandmother about her cancer but her family convinces her otherwise. It's both  and  by the end.
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May 7, 2017 18:32
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I did a few years of ju jujitsu and aikido when I was younger. I wouldn't say it'd be great in a street brawl, but if you've got a drunk fronting up or drunkenly grabbing onto you it'd be great for dumping his rear end on the floor or snapping his arm in a horrific manner and the zoidberging out of there before you get your rear end kicked.
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May 7, 2017 19:09
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yeah but how do they match up to the traditional chinese martial art of calling all your buddies to beat someone up
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May 7, 2017 19:12
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I like the "holy poo poo" factor of videos where the bullshit martial art practitioners actually win for real. They're probably as surprised as anyone.
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May 7, 2017 19:24
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Is there a martial art that focuses on rupturing the other guys balls? I feel like that would be the most practical to use.
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May 7, 2017 19:31
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Stink Billyums posted:Is there a martial art that focuses on rupturing the other guys balls? I feel like that would be the most practical to use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOdkMRniig
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May 7, 2017 19:31
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Haier posted:I will reply to the other posts tomorrow, but I wanted to post this first. This dude owns. I heard about it from a butthurt local today. This is pretty , like James Randi with fists. Though his challenging an actual Olympic boxer seems like he may be going a bit too far. Like, boxers at the Olympic level are almost certainly gonna be better than a non-ranked MMA fighter.
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May 7, 2017 20:08
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Stink Billyums posted:Is there a martial art that focuses on rupturing the other guys balls? I feel like that would be the most practical to use. Krav Maga: the art of poking them in the eye and kicking them in the balls.
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JaucheCharly posted:Back in the 50s, dudes would do underground bareknuckle fighting in HK, with next to no rules. Being interested in chinese martial arts this would have been a great thing to behold. 150 years ago, the good stuff was pretty much alive and you could find dudes who could shoot ultra heavy bows and had some real deal fencing and wrestling skills. Martial artists were basically exterminated in 1850s Guangdong after helping to lead the Red Turban rebellion, and then the Boxers led to another crackdown, then the CCP wasn't too friendly to practical martial arts and pushed it towards demonstration forms... There's a lot of reasons "teh real kung fu" is in scarce supply, and it won't get better without acknowledging that reality.
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May 7, 2017 20:32
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i dont care about the content of this article at all i am only linking because of the headline http://thediplomat.com/2017/05/meet-chinas-emerging-number-2/
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so last night was pretty weird. i went out with work investors and then the university we work with in the united states, and i was the first one at the restaurant, and immediately like 9 waitresses all dressed up, standing in a line, stared at me hardcore when i got in. i thought maybe it was going to double as a prostitution house, it was really weird, i'm used to stares but not from the younger generation. i had kinda dressed up but even then i'm not that good looking to get all nine waitresses eyefucking me. i talked to two of them, they kept giggling, it was like...super weird. then i went to our private room and immediately my coworker told me "we're in a north korea restaurant" and they told me that all the waitresses were north koreans who came to china, studied chinese for 6 months, lived in the restaurant and weren't allowed to leave. then i understood why everyone was staring at me, i was probably the first ever Real Live Foreigner (with blue eyes and long blond hair) they had ever met. i wanted to take pictures but i was told i shouldn't. we had deer, blowfish soup, some exotic spicy fish head that was much better than i thought, and i ended up p drunk. every time the waitresses came in i couldn't stop looking at them, they were all so beautiful and i really wanted to talk to them and ask them like a million questions, but i don't even know if i was allowed to. i've only met one other north korean in my entire life and the dude was a total rear end in a top hat. anyway that's my story thanks for reading
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May 7, 2017 23:44
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Should of fallen in love and gotten married, could of scored some sweet North Korean citizenship.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Should of fallen in love and gotten married, could of scored some sweet North Korean citizenship. can you imagine that call to my wife? "i'm leaving you. i've fallen in love with a north korean and am moving with her to north korea to start my new life" i actually can't type it out without laughing out loud actually the more that i think about it, i really hate humans and society and north korea probably has not too many people and probably very little society, i might actually like it there. i wonder if amazon prime delivers
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May 7, 2017 23:59
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I love that kung fu story. Bruce Lee was the martial arts James Randi of the 1970's, who figured out that 90% of fighting had to do with physical fitness and thus became an exercise fanatic while creating his proto-MMA hybrid style. He was one of the first dudes to call fakers on their bullshit. I'm happy the mythbusters approach continues.
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May 8, 2017 00:09
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The Great Autismo! posted:can you imagine that call to my wife? I'm pretty sure this is almost exactly how The Aquariums of Pyongyang starts.
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#NKALLDAY South Korea's got no soul.
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May 8, 2017 00:56
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In a government Japanese hospital my check-in survey included olds questions like Do you want to know the name of your illness? and Have you ever slept in a bed before? Poor nurses were obligated to explain the safety rail on the bed to me, and I was obligated to listen.
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We have the north korean restaurant in myanmar, they're in half a dozen countries through SE asia. cambodia has one, i think india too? maybe thailand. Anyway ya the girls are basically kept locked in the house and not allowed to venture off premises. In Myanmar the girls are absolutely for sale afterwards as well. There was a minor scandal recently in another country (wanna say NK?) where the manager and all the girls from one of these places escaped and sought asylum...
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The Great Autismo! posted:and immediately like 9 waitresses all dressed up, standing in a line, stared at me hardcore when i got in. i thought maybe it was going to double as a prostitution house, very clever with maracas posted:We have the north korean restaurant in myanmar, they're in half a dozen countries through SE asia. cambodia has one, i think india too? maybe thailand. Peven Stan posted:lol buttblasted sexpat autismo still buttblasted 
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Here's the video in question. It's pretty good. The Tai Chi guy looks like a rejected Virtua Fighter character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6RrxTBdJs4 The Great Autismo! posted:i wanted to take pictures but i was told i shouldn't. we had deer, blowfish soup, some exotic spicy fish head that was much better than i thought, and i ended up p drunk. every time the waitresses came in i couldn't stop looking at them, they were all so beautiful and i really wanted to talk to them and ask them like a million questions, but i don't even know if i was allowed to. Eating blowfish at a North Korean restaurant in China seems like a good way to die. Let us English fucked around with this message at 03:28 on May 8, 2017 |
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An actual north korean restaurant run by the DPRK would be a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand it would be a cool story to go to one but on the other, the money might get back to NK.
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The Pyongyang restaurant chain is NK operated and is to get hard cash back to the country, yes. There's a whole bunch of them around Asia and some in Europe.
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hakimashou posted:An actual north korean restaurant run by the DPRK would be a bit of a dilemma. They're all run by NK and the waitresses are basically prisoners. Every time I think about going to one, I remember that and I can't. Fleta Mcgurn fucked around with this message at 05:55 on May 8, 2017 |
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"Every country with an economy bigger than California" Doing us proud, Xi. Doing us proud.
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