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I think you are overestimating the percentage of the general population that understand that traditional martial arts are BS (with obvious exceptions such as Mu
by agota 7y ago
I think you are overestimating the percentage of the general population that understand that traditional martial arts are BS (with obvious exceptions such as Muay Thai).
A regular person with no previous martial arts training is easy prey for the "masters".
That's why these traditional martial arts gyms still exist.
- slothtrop 7y agoYou can argue they're still an art even if they're less effective in a match, though they should be more upfront about it.
- _bxg1 7y agoI think the takeaway is not that "traditional martial arts are BS", but that the CCP cares only about appearances, and so has funded legions of false masters in an attempt to project cultural superiority, and this guy is calling them out on it. It's a microcosm of their entire propaganda-state and the corruption that it's rife with. Even their finance reporting follows the same pattern.
- Quekid5 7y agoYou absolutely nailed it. Thank you.
- rscho 7y agoTraditional martial arts practiced in a modern way are BS. Ancient practitioners were no jokes.
- kofejnik 7y agothere's no evidence of that whatsoever somewhere on youtube, there's a clip of two grandmasters fighting in front of a large audience, in the 1950s I think? It's bw and terrible quality, but it's quite obvious that either one of them would've been whooped in a bar fight on Friday night
- achenatx 7y agochina outlawed wushu fighting (lei tan) in the 1920s. Before that point masters would maim/kill each other and take over each other's schools. We know of kung fu in the united states, but there is also sanda/sanshou which actually fight. Shaolin is more about art than the martial.