JusticeZero

I don't have huge experience in any of them, but the format of the Aikido classes i've seen in three different schools was not much different from the format of the Judo classes i've seen, or for that matter the classes I teach. The difference is in the techniques and tactics, not the class format.

How is that not "forging your spirit"?And your standards for what Self defense are are extremely high. I doubt that many police or security level combative programs would meet it.

People say that Gongfu is being "forgotten". It isn't being forgotten, it's that it has been picked clean of its foreign-ness. It's no longer a thing where you go to some dark room in a racially-concentrated slum to take lessons from some guy who you can barely understand to learn crazy mystical skills that nobody else around you understands. Now, you go to the school, the teacher is a white guy who explains it clearly, everybody has seen it and recognizes it. It's popular now so everybody hates it. We can no longer consume it as an exotic thing, and so it has lost value as a cultural marker of high class. That's right; our culture is based on hipsterism If you want to learn how to hit people, it is oh so clear to virtually anyone in this country that there is very little value in wandering uptown, grabbing a burger, and heading to Joe's Gym, reading tired old inspirational phrases on a poster tacked to his wall, and learning how to throw a solid right cross punch. To really have value, one must first travel to a small village nestled into a mountain range that most people cannot find on a map. You leave the airport and find someone who looks sufficiently ethnic to bring you along the winding trails uphill from the highway to get there. After you have arrived, you must schmooze with the locals for a week, amazing them with your foreign and wonderful technology (as they try so very hard to not let on that they are the ones who stomped you in that last tournament on WoW). Finally, after a night of eating traditional village foods (of the kind that the villagers rarely eat anymore, because it's cheaper to just order a pizza to be delivered), you must take a pilgrimage to see a hermit on the mountaintop. There, you will gaze upon ancient inspirational proverbs painted onto hand-woven tapestries crafted from yak hair, before the wise hermit and your translator reveal to you the secrets of the Da'hau Buk Faugr, which translates literally as "Right Cross Punch". People will go out of their way to express the might and power of the Da'hau Buk Faugr. Clearly there is no equal or equivalent technique in the industrialized world. ...Gongfu just doesn't have the value it used to. There is, of course, the hundreds of thousands of people who still practice Gongfu (or Karate, or Judo, or..) every day, spreading their knowledge. But they don't really count, do they?

The Aikido classes i've seen aren't much different from any other martial art classes i've seen. As usual, people walk into the class and start training. It's just that instead of drilling punches, you're drilling rolls and breakfalls, then do a lot of paired drills where you throw each other around the room. Why not walk into a class and try it out?

My experience has been that if you don't incorporate the combative application and how to express power and defense into your movements, your training is useless for developing those other aspects that you are looking for. Their form is garbage, which puts them at risk of injury, and their confidence is low. The combination is volatile; they are still dangerous and erratic and liable to attack or hurt someone for petty if not entirely hallucinatory reasons. And they might not even acknowledge that they did it to themself.

The rules are nominally 'Anything goes', but in practice both rules and the 'standard' MMA mix have evolved together for awhile. MMA competitors optimize technique, gear, etc to mesh with the rules.

The same is true of MMA training, though. And hardly anyone claims Octagon fighters to be unable to defend themselves.

"Budo" is one aspect to training. You don't lose all of the other aspects just because someone in your lineage emphasizes one aspect. A fancy car is meant to demonstrate your wealth and status, but that doesn't mean it won't take you to the store for milk.

I'd disagree with that. It has a lot of self defense use and skills in it; it is functional in the wild even if it was never designed to excel in the octagon - it's not LESS suited for use in the wild than MMA is in any case.

Is it that level drop as techniques are fired that you can see in the form that we're looking at?

Have you tried plugging the webpage into something like Google Translate? It's a bit brute forcy, but I can usually get the gist of what is being said that way. I tried doing a search myself, but apparently there was just yet another horrific pedophile martial arts teacher scandal there recently, and it chaffs up the search. As well as the usual at having to read about human shaped monsters again.

Yes, but fencing schools will teach you to snap the counterbalancing arm back as a part of a lunge. That seemed somewhat similar. Furthermore, the amount of acceleration you can achieve from only moving your center of balance using the mass of your front leg with an inert rear leg is limited by the mass of your leg and the gravity of the Earth.

Experiencing inertia as part of acceleration is inevitable in all movements, no matter what you push off with. It can, I suppose, push you up. There is no backward motion imparted by pushing off with the back foot, if you are actually moving your center of mass.That said, we usually lead with the front leg and fall forward to move, so I can't pull what they're doing apart too much. I don't do it. It's both nonsensical and a bit impossible to treat the practitioner as a point mass that experiences those two contradictory impulses in sequence. Any movement involving circular movement - that is, most of them unless you fight like a wingchun advocate - will involve launching the counterbalance backward in some fashion.

Is it intended that kicks should connect with the hips forward of the base foot, and the base leg straight? This would create a straight and rigid structure that is closer to a triangle entering into the target. However, a straight base leg isn't much use for standard mobility; all you really can do with is is fall, which is fine but will have properties of a circle, with the force of the attack extending outward tangentially from the base foot. Retracting the leg is probably going to want the base leg to be retracted, in order not to force the pullback of the weight of the trunk to climb back up the slope. As these are all trigonometric sort've things with circles, the term "sine wave" might come into play there somewhere or other. Of course, not being a TKD person I could be misunderstanding.

Don't know; I try to make sure that my students are immune to that, and i've seen too many teachers who are amazing instructors and ticking time bombs as human beings. It's pretty much assumed that your instructor is one of the people that you have to always be watchful of in case they decide to stab you in the back.

....capoeira isn't creole...? The songs and technique names are in Portuguese, but i'm enough of an anthropologist to know how goofy it is to spend too much time pandering to Euro-American Xenophilic prejudices that demand an "Authentic" "Cultural Experience" to an even greater extent than they would see in a traditional school.

http://www.hiyaapodcast.com/ has some good stuff.

The comments were a bit annoying on it. My understanding is that jujutsu contains lots of striking techniques. The two most popular filters of jujutsu (Judo and Aikido), as well as the descendant of Judo that people see most often have little in the way of atemi, but those are hardly the whole of the art.

Mostly concern for your sake if you think that physical and verbal abuse is acceptable professional behavior from a supervisor or coach. I'd hate to think that you're coming home from work with black eyes or whatever from your boss using you as a punching bag and thinking that that was normal or acceptable.

The counter to that is? I'm an adult, I don't feel like I need to put up with people cussing at me and hitting me regardless of circumstances. I don't have to put up with my boss at work throwing things at me and cussing me out, I don't have to deal with my teachers hitting and kicking me, I don't need to put up with that from anyone. If my job was to throw basketballs, it would not change anything. Do you think it's OK to have your boss at work physically abuse *you*? I mean, you can take it, right? How about your wife? She's a grown up, she can take having a few things smashed into her face while curses and derogatory terms are screamed in her face, right? They dont get a "free education". They go to college - which they pay for - and they have a contract employed position with the college to do basketball at a high level, which pays more than their education costs month to month.

Saw this one the other day. Old guy, poor sheep farmer, revolutionized ultramarathon racing starting by running a 566 mile race across eastern Australia in under six days. Continued to race until his death in his 80's. Don't believe the hype. Just change your approach.

Yeah, that's unacceptable and horrible behavior. I'm sure he'll be forgiven because popular sports, though.

Right, it wouldn't be the first time a piece of safety gear was found to be more dangerous than without. I'm just confused as to why they only changed it for men.

Yay history! I appreciate it.

I'm a bit puzzled as to why women still have to wear helmets, if they don't do anything?