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Dave Grool posted:If nothing else you'll learn breakfalls from judo which are an essential life skill imo. They should teach that poo poo to everybody in grade school 
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I did it for a couple of years before pivoting to modern fencing (and now don’t do either because of job hours,  ), and iirc DandyLionis an instructor. But yeah, you're correct. Single-leg takedowns and judo-esque leg sweeps also work if you don't have a big lever handy.
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Jul 2, 2019 14:21
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Pretty much: I was actually thinking of an unarmoured dagger technique that's pretty close to a modern single leg, but I can't find an illustration of it in armour. Here's something vaguely related instead:  These illustrations are from a set of manuscripts called the Gladiatoria group that's all about fighting in armour. The techniques in the manuscripts appear over and over in different late medieval sources, but I really love the art style in these ones. Siivola fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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Jul 2, 2019 17:25
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I have taken pointers from Steven Seagal and traditional Japanese martial arts and started developing a protective layer of fatty tissue around my body to protect my organs.
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Jul 6, 2019 08:02
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A karate studio opened within a walking distance and their hours fit my dumb working hours, so I guess it's time to wash the old gi. I hope they say "oss" a lot.
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Aug 22, 2019 09:56
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Siivola posted:I hope they say "oss" a lot. 
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Sep 2, 2019 19:27
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Now there's an idea! On an unrelated note I recently finished Charles Russo's book Striking Distance: Bruce Lee & the Dawn of Martial Arts in America and I really enjoyed it. It's less of a Bruce Lee book and more of a local history of the Bay Area martial arts scene of the time and it's full of all kinds of neat local colour. I love how these people's idea of a "street fight" was a showdown behind the local YMCA. 
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Sep 5, 2019 05:45
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Never heard of it. According to wikipedia it's one of the styles used in modern wushu forms, so it might be cool. I'm surprised to hear the school spars, so report back once you get to try it.
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Sep 9, 2019 13:17
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While you're right, I would love to try this thing I've probably shared here before: https://torontoist.com/2017/08/made-canada-martial-art/ The guy's developed a long-rear end spear that goes SQUEAK when you score a solid thrust.
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Sep 10, 2019 09:38
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It's not leverage. It's moment of inertia.
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Sep 14, 2019 12:38
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I mean, correct me if I’m wrong but we're talking spears here and spears are not levers.
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Sep 14, 2019 15:40
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On the upside, you also won't need to feel bad for fumbling something that the next guy breezes through.  On the downside, you can't cheat by looking at what the others are doing.  Good luck!
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Sep 14, 2019 16:29
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Organising large groups of students into skill tiers makes teaching easier and gives the students an easy way to track their progress. Of course this runs the risk of making practice only about the next belt exam. The belt colours (and the kyu/dan ranking system) were invented by Jigoro Kano of judo fame so they're only about a hundred years old, which means they're younger than the semiautomatic firearm. Japanese budo schools ended up picking up the rankings as they joined the big martial arts federation active at the time. Then judo and karate got big and everyone started expecting there to be belts, so now even some Chinese martial arts do belts.
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Oct 15, 2019 20:53
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Oh, I hadn't made the go connection, thanks. Now that I think about it, was Kano even the first one to formalize the dan system in martial arts? I think some proto-kendo schools had been running for a good while before he came along, but I have no idea how they organized their classes.
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Oct 17, 2019 11:44
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Out of curiousity, how would you like to spar? Small gloves but also head hits?
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Nov 7, 2019 08:36
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I get what you're going for but I feel like a heavy bag and someone to film you with a smartphone would get you 90% of the way there.
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Nov 24, 2019 11:13
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While Defenestrategy might be correct, that was also your first exam at the place. Not only has nobody in the world failed their first grading, you came in with experience from another martial art to begin with so you already knew how to tell your right foot from your left.
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Dec 6, 2019 19:56
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 Were they just incredibly inept or an actual hazard?
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Dec 6, 2019 20:06
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Oh you do actual bouts already by then, that would explain it. We didn't have to fence anyone in the 6th kyu exam and I quit pretty soon after that, so I never got graded on anything difficult. The club culture was good and challenging, though. Speaking of gradings, I've got a yellow belt exam in trad karate coming up next week. If I don't gently caress it up through arrogance, this will be my fifth yellow or equivalent in a Japanese MA. I just hope I can keep at this longer than the previous four because I'm tired of quitting. Siivola fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Dec 6, 2019 |
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Dec 6, 2019 20:35
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Ohhh, that's interesting. Here in Finland I think all major budo schools do federation-approved exams from 6th kyu or thereabouts onwards.
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Dec 6, 2019 20:54
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 https://twitter.com/AMurderOfBears/status/1216619288850661376 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5BOeCqx3Is
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Jumping kicks are super fun and y'all should do them btw.
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Dave Grool posted:RDJ talked about wing chun on the Rogan show. As a former chun dabbler now grappling person it was uh, interesting that he's still super into it even as an MMA fan. I'm in it for the cool ninja aesthetic and none of you can convince me I'm not cool.
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