Comment on Is martial arts really that useful?

Tramort@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  China is so salty that karate can’t survive the age of the Internet they are blackballing it’s critics.

  Karate is Japanese, mr Sensei sir.

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• Feyd@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  MMA has rules that don’t exist in real fights that almost certainly affect the dominance of styles

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  • Tramort@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The rule against using firearms in the octagon.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Rule against hitting the groin or gouging someone’s eyes. There are lots of combat styles that are more efficient than Jiu-Jitsu, but they’re not for competing, they’re for survival.

      I used to train some of the less savoury martial arts, and ever so often we had people from the Jiu-Jitsu class wanting to train with us because they saw us doing “wrong things” and wanted to “teach us”. What they discovered very quickly is that lots of Jiu-Jitsu positions put you in a very vulnerable spot if your opponent knows and can use pressure points, including groin and eyes, and that the “wrong” things we were doing might open a counter attack but prevented those things.

      I’m not saying BJJ is bad, but it’s not the br all end all that people claim it to be.

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• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you mean Wushu?

  It’s closer to Pro Wrestling than a form of self-defense, like they often have storylines and everything.

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