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> it was pretty regular to get a new face with high tma rank/belt stop his first sparring after discovering is shock Per my other comment if the person doing t

by gist 7y ago

> it was pretty regular to get a new face with high tma rank/belt stop his first sparring after discovering is shock Per my other comment if the person doing the martial arts were in a real life situation perhaps they would take a different approach or tactic. Sparring in a gym is not real life and doesn't measure what happens in a situation where someone might rely on TMA training and why they take it (in other words to defend themselves and not to spar)

rasz 7y ago
I did WTF for over a year before kickboxing. My best friend, a red belt, decided to do a perfect bakkat makki(1) during a confrontation with some drunk idiots in front of a 24/7 mart. Turns out blocking an empty glass bottle with your bare arm is not the best idea ever, as evidenced by stitches on forearm and forehead. What martial arts did for him was false sense of “Don’t worry… I’ve got this”, and enough confidence to get hurt. WTF taught me splits and fancy useless head kicks like naeryo and dolyo chagi (roundhouse kick). Kickboxing taught me the second you try that on the street someone is going to grab your leg, put you on the ground and let his friends curb stomp your face to the asphalt. Taekwondo wasnt the worst offender, non contact Karate was close to the peak of bullshido. (1) something you spend pretty much half of every training drilling in useless forms fighting air, air never fights back.
- gist 7y ago
  I agree with everything you are saying. But reminds me of the early days of anti lock braking and in particular all sorts of now more common electronic driving controls. In particular 'can't defy the law of physics'. A car spinning out will not stop spinning just because you have those breaks it's already in motion. In the case of your friend he did something stupid and got into a situation that he was not prepared for (I had to look up bakkat makki). He didn't recognize the bottle as being dangerous which in retrospect unless you think movies are real is kind of obvious. I was cut on my hand by accident years ago in a work situation by an art knife (by an employee). Same situation and it wasn't a fight. Agree with the kickboxing and I would even say as someone who had a bag as a kid and did karate kicks with it the power that you actually had seemed foolish in thinking you could disable someone with that. Maybe an old lady or a child. Otherwise so much time for someone to react.

by gist 7y ago

rasz 7y ago

I did WTF for over a year before kickboxing. My best friend, a red belt, decided to do a perfect bakkat makki(1) during a confrontation with some drunk idiots in front of a 24/7 mart. Turns out blocking an empty glass bottle with your bare arm is not the best idea ever, as evidenced by stitches on forearm and forehead. What martial arts did for him was false sense of “Don’t worry… I’ve got this”, and enough confidence to get hurt. WTF taught me splits and fancy useless head kicks like naeryo and dolyo chagi (roundhouse kick). Kickboxing taught me the second you try that on the street someone is going to grab your leg, put you on the ground and let his friends curb stomp your face to the asphalt. Taekwondo wasnt the worst offender, non contact Karate was close to the peak of bullshido. (1) something you spend pretty much half of every training drilling in useless forms fighting air, air never fights back.

gist 7y ago
I agree with everything you are saying. But reminds me of the early days of anti lock braking and in particular all sorts of now more common electronic driving controls. In particular 'can't defy the law of physics'. A car spinning out will not stop spinning just because you have those breaks it's already in motion. In the case of your friend he did something stupid and got into a situation that he was not prepared for (I had to look up bakkat makki). He didn't recognize the bottle as being dangerous which in retrospect unless you think movies are real is kind of obvious. I was cut on my hand by accident years ago in a work situation by an art knife (by an employee). Same situation and it wasn't a fight. Agree with the kickboxing and I would even say as someone who had a bag as a kid and did karate kicks with it the power that you actually had seemed foolish in thinking you could disable someone with that. Maybe an old lady or a child. Otherwise so much time for someone to react.