How extreme is too extreme?
>>251262KOTS
I really want to take up a martial art, and have since I was a kid, but have an internal defibrillator. It's a preventative measure, and I lift weights/run with no issues. Any ideas what ones would be appropriate? Basically anything where I'm not about to get struck hard and repeatedly in the chest (I own a small shield for it that can fit under clothing very easily/allows for full range of movement, so occasional accidental striking of it/pressing on it is no issue).
>>249867No thats a lot of striking and often on the chest
>>250024Is it? I thought the chest was a non-scoring area?
I think it's just head and hands that score but I don't know, never done it before
>>250064That could work for me then. I have a little paceguard thing I can wear over my defrib, and it works pretty well. It'd almost certainly fit under the armor based on what I've seen.
>>249491You are broken, fundamentally. Don't do martial arts. You shouldn't even exist.
what martial art should i do after taekwondo? i'm currently abt to be a black belt in ITF taekwondo and i noticed that it kinda sucks due to the lack of handwork.ive been thinking of exploring either judo (since im pretty big) or eskrima (for grappling techniques and knifeplay). in general im looking for a style that is more hands-focused to go with the footwork of taekwondo
>>247891Kickboxing. Look, I might have a retarded vision of things here, but I see Taekwondo and Aikido as very similar martial arts. Laughed upon, misunderstood, with too many mcdojos and clowns. In short, ineffective. But what I also noticed when doing kickboxing is that taekwondo guys have a style that's powerful and unconventional. They have to adapt to some KB stuff, but some go into fights with a taekwondo style, almost like fencing with their leg, and it works. Kind of like this girl, but less obvious https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2ShTujCVJzcSo I think that Taekwondo is like a DLC for Kickboxing. I mentioned Aikido because I think it's like a DLC for Judo and BJJ, but that's a whole other can of worms
>>247891Will you become an amazing all around fighter who can threaten competent fighters? Probably notCan you kick a crackhead in the chest and make him rethink his decision? Probably yesNot everyone has to be super optimal MMA guy
>>247891Since you have kicks boxing or kick boxing. Escrima seems cool but hard to find a good gym.
>>247891Combat Sambo if you can find, you can make Combat TKD! https://youtube.com/shorts/B4LIsuuFR6w
boxing or any grappling martial art. boxing because taekwondo, no matter the type, has shitty punching technique and defense (check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn98RdwPw48 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz-kU1X0Q2I, which are boxers beating taekwondoins from the ITF). grappling martial arts because you only know striking and MAYBE some takedowns (if your school actually teached you them), since you said you're big then any will do, though judo would be my main recommendation
those that aim to redirect the oponent's energy, like aikido, hapkido, daito ryu, taijutsu, etc. i'm kinda interested in them, especially taijutsu and hapkido, but dunno what i should expect exactly (in order to not fall into a mcdojo), so if anyone has experience in them please share, as well as your thoughts on them
>>249339At the schools I've visited kata seems to be mostly a niche old guy activity or done only for higher belt promotions.
>>246409Actually that's real and not from one of Seagal movies. It's hard to tell because he's always pure kino.
>>246396I don't think the idea of taijutsu is just redirection. It's more like fucking around until the oponent has no tension, then exploiting that.
>>246396If you want to learn the art go for it but don't expect to be able to use the techniques they way they teach you because they teach it wrong for fighting, do it for the love of the game.That said the core principle of redirecting energy is legit and legit overpowered if you do it right.The most important thing to learn is the twitch from daito ryu, i call it like that idk if it has an actual name but what they do is that they do a tiny push or pull to get you to resists in the opposite motion and then do the technique opposite to your reaction, for example they first bump you back so you resists forward and then pull you as you resists, its a tiny motion, almost imperceptible but 100% legit and you can use this concept in more legit martial arts like mma, wrestling and judo.Aikido does basically the same thing but in a circular motion, all you need from aikido is to instead of resisting head on, to simply move to the side and rotate to push or pull the opponent into you.Hapkido is literally just aikido but fast and explosive and teaches how to use the techniques against karate style striking which is slightly better than aikido.If you must I would recommend hapkido because they are legit athletic as fuck, you learn basically everything aikido and daito ryu do and then you can do something more legit focusing on the concepts of energy redirection, not the techniques they teach you, only the concept.
OP here, so in the end i ended up getting into BJJ and it's been a lot of fun. these three months have been great and i've learned a ton of stuff. i would've liked to get into hapkido but there are no dojangs nearby =(.>>250726sound cool, didn't realize that. wish the bujinkan wasn't a scam though :/.>>251051thanks for the explanation! i'd love to get into one of these martial arts someday, especially hapkido, hopefully i'll find some place that isn't like 2 hours from where i live •~•
lets say your walking down the street and u bump into a guy. one things leads into another your granted a fair 1v1 no weapons only limbs. (kicks and whatnot allowed) but you cant back out. what kind of clothing would be best? would you regular street wear help you? i usally wear a nike tech fleece very breathable and moveable material and typical sneakers. only thing that might through me off is if im wearing some jeans that day. i think perfect fighting outfit would be a good sports tracksuit like the nike tech suit and some sort of sneaker that u can grip the floor in and kick with but thats not too limiting. on the foot
im naked honestly i know i can just karate chop his arm and snap his arm
>>235157bad advice converse are too light and too hard under the foot for what you want you might as well be wearing sandals because converse actually the stitching in the back hurts your feet + if you kick with your toe in shoes youre defective i shouldnt even tell you that anyway get some loafers and re sole them with hard cork and leather
>>248352you know like vans are loafers or boat loafers youre not restricted to dressing like a gay himosexual kazakh or albanian man to win in fights
>>225994I would wear the armour of thorns from dark souls.
>>225994>optimal fight wearRETVRN TO TRADITION
What's up with huge guy usually not knowing how to fight?
>>250012Go and fight him and see how you do
>>250012They rarely get into fights since people are afraid of them due to their size. So they rarely get into fights which means they lack experience. Big guys who actually have fighting experience will fuck most people up
>>250012>What's up with huge guy usually not knowing how to fight?they rely on size to intimidate and strength if they do fight, but a real fighter is not intimidated and knows how to beat fatty.
Promoted to orange belt!(in case anyone is wondering yes that’s a capybara shirt I’m wearing underneath )It’s been an awesome 1.3 years of judo! I’ve been improving my technique and did amazing at two recent tournaments. The progress shall continue to be strong
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>>239408congrats, anon, hope ur school competes a lot! randori footage when?
>>239408are you really on here posting real irl pics of your actual face my negro?
>>246144Why not? I'm proud of it.
>>239408Why is Morihei Ueshiba on the wall?And what's the story with the girl?
Why are BJJ channels such obnoxious faggots?
>>250890Why has my description of a threeway bjj match offended you?
>>250891Lmfao imagine paying a $150 a annual registration that involves giving up your passport info and biometrics to a Brazilian corporation, then paying $160 per competition on top of itIbjjf is an IQ tes
>>250875kek
>>250881It's not really hard to grapple multiple people at onceThey tend to get into each other's way
>>250903Loser cope
Just found out about this sport. Seems too cool to be this niche. Anyone into it?
>>248062>No tricking thread?It was tentatively lumped into the parkour thread under the assumption that there wouldn't be enough discussion to sustain separate threads but it's definitely different enough to warrant a distinct thread if there's adequate interest. You might find some posts relevant to your interests there either way:>Freerunners can post, too. Maybe even gymnasts and trickers if you don't get your own thread up and running.>>76604>Anyone into it?I keep up with some basic parkour and I used to train taekwondo but I've never combined the two enough to be considered tricking. I tried to learn backflips once with the help of two coaches: one thought I had it and the other thought I needed assistance through the flip so I got pushed on one side and not the other, resulting in me rotating sideways and kicking the coach who didn't push me in his head hard enough to put an end to backflip lessons. >>248066Sometimes. Tricking consists of gymnastics movements like that combined with martial arts movements like high kicks. >>248077Jujimufu on YouTube is somewhat mainstream and was primarily a tricker before he became a bodybuilder. I think the reason people don't know about trickers is that there's too much overlap between movement disciplines and a normie doesn't know or care whether the practitioner in a seven second social media clip is doing tricking, freerunning, wushu, taekwondo, parkour, gymnastics, etc., etc. so they just assume it's whatever discipline they're most familiar with or that the individual is simply doing a flip outside of the context of a specific art. Jujimufu memed himself as the "anabolic acrobat" because everybody knows basically what an acrobat is and that's close enough to what tricking is to get the point across.
>>248062>what if we took martial arts and made it gay as fuck
>>248257>Everything that's too difficult for my fat obese sedentary ass to do is bad
>>248257They're basically doing martial arts wuxia movie fight choreography without an opponent
>>248062I always thought these types of sports were cool because you can pretty much do them anywhere without any equipment. Like at almost any moment, you could just bust out a cool flip and a kick and anyone who happens to see it will be amazed. Seems like an easy way to elicit attention to yourself
Would've been GOAT if he wasn't diseased and dying to the cold and flu. He could've been triple champ.DESTROYS Anderson Silva, Israel Adesanya, Alex Pereira, Sean Strickland, DDP.DESTROYS Jiri Prochazka, Jamahal Hill, Glover Texeira. Beats up Magomed Ankalaev, beats Jon Jones.DESTROYS Jack Della Maddalena, Belal Muhammad. Beats Kamaru Usman, Islam Makhachev, GSP.
>>249556good bjj guys or excellent wrestlers such as bo might be able to beat him desu as retarded as this sounds... But otherwise his double leg is retarded fast like a divine flash thunderbolt of the gods. I don't see anyone contending stopping it
>>240440is it the beard?
>>240541And why would Dana piss on Trump's head like that?
Where to torrent ufc? Pirate Bay quit doing it like 5 months ago
>>250263RuTracker is unironically safer than PirateBay https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?nm=UFC
>trying to decide between going for a walk or playing disc golf. Played disc golf yesterday for reference.
>>242391It's a great sport. Once you start buying you cant stop tho. Just picked these up from my local shop.
>>194086Chuddy Holluy
>>249153Love Clash, but I hate the look of the Steady Ring.
>>250159They're just so expensive in NA. Best plastic in the industry by far.
>>250617For sure, I wish they had a proper distributor.I love their Sunny plastic, it's too bad they don't seem run it very often.
why don't more people skate with bigger wheels? I'm talking 60mm and above.it feels so much better to skate when you're not trying to balance precariously on little tiny baby wheels, where even a speck of dust will send you flying.
>>250557retard
>>247105fpbp OP exposed as kook
58s are about right, trucks with a shorter wheelbase will help offset the steepness for pop (ie ace, venture v8 but I haven't tried them yet idk if the wheelbite will be bad)
I only skate 56mm and up. Mostly 60mm slimeballs or oj's. It does make some things harder but I love the amount of speed you can sustain on big wheels. Plus they just look cooler.
>>247108>to the kids these daystrends on this have swung back and forth a couple times. the desirable wheel diameter when i was a kid in the 90s was around 40mm. just completely ridiculous for anything other than pristine smooth skateparks.
Bold Prediction Edition>Banzuke:http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Banzuke.aspxhttps://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/>Fight Schedule & Results:https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoMain/torikumi/1/1/>Some sumo links and how to watch live:https://rentry.org/uwbgc88dPrevious thread >>248911
>Koga>Roga>Sogawho's gonna take Toga and Goga
>>251354The previous threads before the dan threads didn't hit bump limit before you made a new thread danschizo.
>>251361Neither had the previous when I (neither dan nor anti-dan) made the Futabayama on a bike thread. Stop being gay about pointless things.
>>251354You literally chimped out in those regular sumo threads that hadn't hit file limit yet that people weren't using your dan thread.
>>251364lol, you're a fucking retard. at least half those were me, and I do not danpost. Idiot.
I want to learn something that would actually teach me how to use a weapon, near me they have fencing, eskrima and kendo. Of these three which one would have the most real life applicability?
>>247846Maybe instead of saying fast progress I should have said I’m afraid of making slow progress at 50% speed because of bad teachers. I don’t have a lot of time to waste as I’m getting older. I don’t mind putting in the hours but I don’t want to do it purely out of bad teaching slowing me down. I’m trying to get back into shape for firefighting so I also don’t have a lot of time either in general for periods of the year. not enough to waste without making progress if that makes sense. my biggest concern is putting in 500 hours into something I could have gotten just as good at in 300 hours with the right teachers. But I don’t mind putting the time in if it pays off.>>247856SmartWhat are your places like you trained at? How did you find them?>>247859I think they’re all cool I think that some of them are cooler than others though. it doesn’t make sense for me to travel 3 hours to a place to practice though and it doesn’t make sense for me to do nothing because I don’t have what I “want” to do near me, so I’m willing to be flexible.I’d like to get to the point I can compete in a year or two. it seems like fun recreationally. And I’m concerned with making fast beginner progress in the first few months so I don’t get bored. that happened with me an TKD when I was much younger where they wanted me to do the 20 step kata over and over when what I wanted to do was two or three step drills and light sparring and practicing individual moves to get the form down.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>247876You can compete within a year or two in both western fencing and kendo. Ask the club how often they usually have competitions.You usually will be practicing for around 6 months in kendo before you can start wearing the protective armor (bogu). Before then you can’t really “spar”, you’ll be learning footwork and basic swings. The reason is because wearing the armor too early can actually mess up your kendo and make you form bad habits early on. Olympic fencing also places a big emphasis on footwork first, but I think generally you can start sparring much earlier. Ask the instructor what their timeline for beginners looks like.Btw, iaido has almost no actual “fencing” component to it. It’s basically all kata as you describe.
>>247876>What are your places like you trained at? How did you find them?I didn't write that, it's in the thread I also quoted, but it's something we have all come to agree if a self defense/competition place is what you want.That aside, I'm a judoka. The only serious, proper (as in, not ridiculously small garages) place I could find was a national judo dojo for training Olympic athletes. A shodan there was granted permission to teach to adult beginners.
Learn anatomy.Find some friends and start stress testing with training knives or noodles. Hell, use a marker or a brush with some shit on it to track contact.Start slow, try to strike a certain area, and have your friend try to defend or even disarm.Speed the movements up, slowly working up towards a realistic speed.Try every variation possible, and practice it all.Then introduce some combo strikes, find a flow.Then realize how FUCKED you would be in a real knife v knife scenario.Techniques won't do jack fucking shit for you in practice, motor skills and actually understanding movement/principles will.You need to learn to intuitively put the pointy thing deep enough into the soft thing while your opponent is spazzing or offering resistance.
>>200580Eskrima/Kali is tons fun. Get some sticks and practice solo drills with YT videos if there is no school you can go to. There is about a 0 chance you will get into a stick on stick fight in real life, but knowing how to hit someone else with one could very well come in handy. Also, the drills are just a lot of fun and build great coordination.
Stupid fucking retarded french SNCF doesn't allow snowboards on trains but allows skisI read the official policy and it's apparently even more retarded than that. They have NO restrictions on skis, but snowboard is restricted to 130 x 90 cmFucking what? Kill yourselves frog munching snail slurping fagsAny suggestions? Should I say fuck it and take my snowboard on? I'm taking the tvg lyria from Paris to geneva
>>248001Have you considered just having a car and not being a loser.
>>248002I'm an AMERICAN ok you french loving faggot I have two at home. And these are REAL cars, MAN cars. I can fit your crappy peugeoto pussy wagon in my cars glove box ok? I thought it would be fun to take the europoor transit system. Now I am seeing why FREE AMERICA has no shitty trains.
>>248004If your american then you should just rent a car you'll likely enjoy driving over there anyways.
>>248004Just bring your car over if you're so rich then, faggot.
Just put them in a ski bag ? From experiance they are not gonna check the bag size anyway.
