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Fat karate masters


Kazuma

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It's funny my sensei was telling me to tie my belt differently.

Kept telling me to make it looser and have the knot under the belly.

Immediately the image came into my head of those karate guys with guts the size of manhattan.

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I'm not sticking up for the guys with huge beer bellies, but you do know that in feudal Japan you were supposed to be larger around the middle. The hara comment is not completely off. This is why you see pictures of samurai with a small gut, rather than looking like Greek statues. Being significantly overweight is a problem, but I can tell you when my sensei was around 245, he still had one of the fastest lead-hand backfists I've ever seen, and had no problem going more than a few rounds with guys half his age.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

- Tao Te Ching


"Move as swift as a wind, stay as silent as forest, attack as fierce as fire, undefeatable defense like a mountain."

- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

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reminds me of samo hung in an episode of martial law

Fitness Instructor: Looking a bit out of shape there cheif.

Samo: No, just fat.

Now you use head for something other than target.

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HAHAHA, you love that quote.... hillarious.

That's a really good example though. Samo isn't exactly a useless Martial Artist.

I actually watched Martial Law when it was on. I kind of liked it. And boy, could Samo move for a big guy. I know lightweights who can't move like that!

There was an episode I remember seeing with Billy Blanks in it, too.

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Kinda large but he moves okay.

He's a big guy. But he doesn't look too fat. I mean...he looks more like he's built like Bolo Young. Large chest and arms with a body that matches.

I think the thread is talking more about guys who are just fat outright.

"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenius."

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