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>>196185>I mean, where the fuck were they back in the 2000sbeing gatekept from it. Times have changed, girls are slowly being acknowledged as human beans and skateboarding is now mainstream. Be grateful they are on the skateboard and not a scooter instead, leave them to it and enjoy your TnA. No one likes a sausage fest apart from gays, who are probably the most disappointed by the this demographic change.
>>196186>being gatekept from it. Times have changed, girls are slowly being acknowledged as human beansNice bait
>>196008The Legendary Shack Shakers
>at the skatepark>young hesher friend is on the sesh>go on Instagram while chilling>see that CKY are coming to town!>tell them>"Who the fuck is CKY?"
why do whores do this
when will this faggot fight again? I like his style and he definitely beat Sean, but when is he gonna defend that title against the Bugman?
>>195798>>195894I hate Izzy and and think that he's overrated, I also love DDP, but he absolutely drops DDP because DDP is sloppy. Izzy is a master at counterstriking.
>>196025He was, but after getting KO'd he's gunshy now
>>196027No he really isn't, unless Dricus bombs him pretty fast, he's going to win and be champ again
>>196025>Izzy is a master at counterstriking.And got pieced up by a guy with a 1-2 and a teep.
He'll fight again soon and beat that stupid fucking monkey nigger Adesanya with a metal baseball bat
/xs/'s thoughts on the topic of professional slap flighting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbnN1asWiY0
>>194218I find it interesting how incompetent the body catchers in Powerslap are compared to the slav tournaments. In Powerslap they just allow people to drop on the floor and bang their head.It's such a farce to do the bar minimum to appease the local atheltics commission. Dana clearly wants footage of people rolling around on the floor.
>>194506You've got nothing, go practice more Power Slap and get more CTE while you fantasize about Dana's jizz in your asshole
>>194690White power!
>>196149top quality slappage
>>194218Gayest shit i've ever seen
/HEMA/ General - Power of God and Anime Edition 3>What is HEMA?HEMA stands for Historical European Martial Arts, sometimes also called Historical Fencing.It's reconstructing how to fight with swords, daggers, polearms, and other weapons based on old European fighting treatises>What does it look like?Inside the World of Longsword Fighting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zueF4Mu2uMBack to the source - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DBmNVHTmNsMartin Fabian Sparring - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8QlbKfX84k>Where can I find these treatises?https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Category:WeaponsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>196073>bonk
>>196073The opponent doesn't want you to know this but the gauntlets on his hands are free.
>>196103
HEMA peaked in 2015. My countrys scene never recovered after Covid and seemingly everyone is trans now. Which is fine but I do miss sparring the sort of guy the new club image chases off. Bigots i guess. I remember 20 years ago the first response you got when talking about Fencing was ‘isn’t that for girls’. Now we push the marketing that it is. It worries me that no one has actually founded a club here in 15 years and with the cost of living no young people are travelling to compete now. Its ogre.
Is it possible to just never get good at a sport?I always wanted to drift. I used to rip the e brake in snow and dirt but I just suck at it. I bought a simulator setup and been using it for years and I never get better. I can barely drift around one wet corner. I just don’t think I can get good at it i never know where the cars gonna go until I hit the throttle and I’m already sliding out of control.
>>187150just find an arcade version of Sega Daytona USA, the drift mechanics of that game is the best of all video games racers.
>>187150find a teacher dumbass
>>190230I love that game!
>>187150Do it for real on a dedicated track with a car set up for drift, doing it in a game even with FFB or with a FWD shitbox on a parking lot won't take you far
>>187189>yes, i know plenty of old men who get into mountain biking, have been doing it for years and still suck ass compared to the fearless 12 year old who started 7 days ago., having a risk tolerance, or atleast internal motivation is necessary. Do you just say you want to improve and then never do anything about it. exactly.I don't even think it's a big issue, their ego is just bigger then their desire to do better.I never really wanted to be the best (inb4 cope comment), and once I understood that I was happier.Admittedly the best mtber I knew did dirt bikes, bmx, as a kid and had some nasty trips to the hospital.>>187150Learn more. Somewhere there is a key to your problem, and I suspect learning+practice will solve it.
The Surfing GeneralPipe masters is on edition https://www.youtube.com/live/eWKucDh3Z1k?si=dHpRPBGhFtqvgsQ4>how do I learn to surf?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrwL5_57C6w [Open]>How do I pick the right board?Use a volume calculator, and find the right board type for your local break or waves you want to ridehttps://www.jsindustries.com/volume-calculatorhttps://www.boardcave.com/surfboard-volume-calculator>how do I know if the waves are good?go check surfline or magicseaweed for reports
>>195438https://youtu.be/ZbnVpC27KvY?t=391
>>195929No idea, I'm in southern Europe, it's all a bunch of new-age hippie wave hogs but at least they hide when the waves get bigger >>196076Yeah, thats the point. Women know that they can get away with it, that's why they constantly snake the whole lineup, catch the wave behind you with their 9ft boards and prevent anyone else from surfing. You m'ladying them in the water just propagates the entitled behavior
>>186042I wonder if wrapping this in fiberglass cloth and epoxy would strengthen it enough?
>>185762I just noticed the OP. Is that Madeira?
>>196074I did go and got my fresh dose of reality about how wildly unfit I am, was good fun though. Some shit kid that should be at school lost his board and sliced a small hole in my suit, but at least it wasn't my fucking face.
Does anyone else think that this was fake? There's a 0% chance that Johnson actually beat this dude. The only possible explanations are that they aren't truly the same belts and are on different levels. Otherwise, the only other explanation is that it was faked/big guy didn't try.
>>195448How are fatfags so good at mental gymnastics?
>>195528It's the only gymnastics they're capable of
>>195448>There's a 0% chance that Johnson actually beat this dudeNormally yes but people like Johnson are 1 in a milion.
>>195523DJ had a highschool level wrestling base and he outwrestled Henry Cejudo who won Olympic gold. Guess wrestling is fake.
>>196160So did aljamaican me crazy 92.5% silverBut that's in the context of MMA, not a pure grappling situation
Thread for Judo (other jacketed wrestling styles welcome)>Discussion starterWhat are your favorite non-dominant side moves and why?>IJF World Tour Schedule 2024https://www.ijf.org/calendar?age=world_tour>Watchhttps://www.youtube.com/c/judolive.ijf.org>Video Resourceshttps://www.youtube.com/@KODOKANJUDOhttps://www.youtube.com/@Shigashi84Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I will be her uke and only me! All you suckers stay awayMY pelvis alone is hers to break!!!
Just finished rereading Teppu and All-Rounder Meguru after remembering a storytime on /a/ 2(?) years ago where some Brazilian dude got me into martial arts. If you browse this board, thank you you bastard, soon I'll be participating in my first competition.Anyway, I'm looking for more stuff like this, I already read Ippo btw. Also, movies and other media are also cool
Kokou no Hito
>>189546Omega isn't garbage (other than realism aspect) but its different genre and sort of nice on that end.
>>196098Wait, is that about fighting?
>>196071Agreed, but it's hard to make grappling visually appealing several times in a row. The fights usually boil down to : "We are at a stalemate, however, I still have [insert secret technique here] and thus, I will win.".
>>196143about mountaineering and rock climbing, but probably the single best /xs/ manga out there
- What is ESSENTIAL to have and to understand regarding Self Defense?- What is the best Martial Art or the combination of Martial Arts for Self Defense?
>>195787100%, absolutely fair. Just to be clear, in no way am I saying "don't train" or "it's OK to be complacent if you're middle class". I'm just saying that managing lifestyle risk factors is way more effective than fightin' good. In regards to road rage stuff specifically, have a quality vehicle with good suspension, good brakes, and plenty of power. Keep it maintained. Have a CCW and a high quality holster. Put a couple thousand rounds through it. Attend a Shivworks course. All this has a significant (but not insurmountable) economic barrier for entry.I dunno, I guess my point is just, don't underestimate the scope of the problem. Learning to fight good and owning weapons is awesome and everyone should do it, but you're still gonna get got if you live near trouble. People buy a gun, drop in the glove box, and think they're safe. Or they train up to be a pretty good boxer or whatever and think "boom, done and dusted, I am un-victim-izable".
>>195806Most countries don't allow concealed carry. Tbh I wouldn't even worry about training half as much if I could just carry a small Glock or pepper spray/ shotgun for home defenseYes a lot of it is situational awareness, de-escalate but don't look like a victim Sometimes nicer areas tend to have more home invasions and burglaries. I read about several here where the victim was a meek family man and he got beaten up whilst his family were tied up. I've also seen footage of home invasions where a good 1-2 to the intruders coming through the door made them revaluate their decisions...But at the end of the day if enough people want to hurt you, you're getting hurt. I don't care if you're MMA heavy weight champion with a concealed carry, two guys with baseball bats who sucker hit you, and it's bye-bye
Fast draw
>>195615Putting aside the obvious de-escalation/avoidance/awareness/street smarts stuff, you need:>1 good striking art>1 good grappling artThat's it for the average drunk or homeless guy who starts shit. Then you can add weapons stuff later.
In an unarmed situation my plan is to do everything I can to get a good liver punch in. I’m sure I will take damage and quite possibly lose but a solid liver punch will drop anyone. Follow up with a flurry of kidney punches and gtfo
A match beetween someone trained In BJJ, judo, Wrestling,... vs some nigga in plate armor without weapons.how would it go?
>>190101Believe or not the guy doing the throw ended up more injured. The guy who got dropped had the wind knocked out of him but the guy doing the throw was concussed by the pommel strikes to the head.
>>190096I wouldn't call the 17th century modern
>>190102Why would you lie? Those pummel strikes had no structure behind them and even then were hitting the mask.
>>190096It was never as clean as it is now though, most modern joint lock submissions are from late 1800s and on. In wrestling it was mainly just trying to pull something until it breaks, there was no technique to submissions. Even the toe hold which was probably one of the more common 1800s wrestling submissions was just pulling the foot in one direction when the opponent was turtled up. The armbar as we know it was only introduced to America around 1905 or something like that. So while submissions were around for thousands of years, they really weren't around to be used on battlefields, especially in Europe where there was superior weaponry and armor, they would mainly use a takedown to use their weapon to kill someone on the ground if they were armored, if they were unarmored then it doesn't even get to a grapple.
>>189781Parry this casual
A place to discuss zorbing and zorbing accessories. A misunderstood but globular extreme sport. Limp Bizkit once wrote a song about this
>>188251lol okay
I heard zorbing is going to be at the Paris olympics
Feels so crazy that they're actually bringing back zorbing at the Olympics, it's been so long. Did anybody honestly think they'd do it?
>>194368No fucking way... Zorb bros, we are going home, at last.
zorb bump
Why do boxers have so much more fights than mma guys?
>>195485And why does boxing not have greedy promotions?
>>195485They didn't know getting your face bashed in for 10 rounds was bad. The fighters weren't the only ones with CTE
>>195529Try 110 roundshttps://sportsbrief.com/boxing/53054-what-longest-boxing-match-how-rounds/
>>195396MMA is far more destructive to the body. Boxing is more dangerous to the brain, but you don't get leg kicked and elbowed.Just look at the faces of boxers and MMA fighters after their fights.
>>195605>Just look at the faces of boxers and MMA fighters after their fights.Bad comparison. Gloves in boxing are literally designed to minimize chances of cuts. Look at the face of bareknuckle boxers and they look way worse than either MMA or boxers.
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Karate peaked in the K-1 years when kyokushin tried it's best to be kickboxing
Does anyone else compete, or want to compete? I train at the dojo three times a week, but my Shihan says to get truly in fighting shape, I need to train much more often, I already do weights and bodyweight exercises at lunch time in my work gym, but he says I need to find some more time on the heavy bag, even if it means training until late at night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJCjyYB2I9cI was at this tournament last year, but in a different category, here are some highlights.>>195032It depends on the ruleset, the problem is with the timelimit, the size of tournaments, and the nature of tournaments themselves. People like Valeri win tournaments because they favour very economical movements that minimise effort, are extremely efficient, and highly effective. Valeri is boring as hell to watch but he's a scientist of Kyokushin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aeVb_J2Wsthis fight is probably the most fluid kyokushin fight I can think of, but there are others. The last IKO tournament had some more springy fighters, but with the big tournaments very few early fights will go beyond the first round, so you have to get in there and go as hard and as fast as you can so the judges choose you. Perhaps one day there should be a more drawn out kyokushin tournament, no round limits, over a few days instead of just two.
>>195401Based Jap man
>>195454Kyokushin did that in the 1970s when Oyama opened up a Kickboxing gym that Terutomo Yamazaki (1st winner of the All Japan Kyokushin championship). When K-1 debuted, it was already built on Ishii's Seidokaikan challenge matches against other styles. He envisioned K-1 as a promotion to bridge all the fighting disciplines (regardless of whatever organization they were champions in) to compete under rules that they could successively utilize their techniques. Early K-1 allowed more knees to the clinch/neck-wrestling so long as it was continuous attack and not jockeying around for several seconds to gain decisive leverage and angles like Muay Thai does. This got dropped later on.
>>195454There's still hundreds of Japanese kickboxers who come from kyokushin karate backgrounds even today.
