>>251652
>it's shocking that anyone takes his opinions seriously.
You're seemingly more fixated on him than I am. I merely brought him up because he's an example of a guy who dispelled a myth. You implying that I worship everything he says is a bit of a strawman; do better.

>>251652
>Shad himself is creating myths about flails being useless when the actual research shows the opposite.
He never said they were useless, anyone who's ever been to a high school physics class can understand how devastating a flail can be. He merely thinks they are not as common in the battlefield as the media would have you believe. The video I was referring to, however, was when he explained that every flail that has the weighted end as the same length as the handle is fake. Lo and behold, many museums started to check their collections with radiocarbon dating, SEM-EDX, or combustion analysis and realized that a bunch of flails were reproductions or forgeries made centuries after their original estimation.

>>251657
>He merely thinks they are not as common in the battlefield as the media would have you believe
If anything, they're more common than people believe, since the popular opinion pendulum has shifted into people thinking they're solely fantasy weapons that didn't even really exist.

>many museums started to check their collections with radiocarbon dating, SEM-EDX, or combustion analysis and realized that a bunch of flails were reproductions or forgeries made centuries after their original estimation.
You vastly overrate Shad's influence if you think he was the driving force behind that.

>>247443
Kendo would be a lot more fun to watch if they also hit the legs.
Also watching videos of kenjutsu, the techniques they do used a lot more angles and binds, i know kendo focuses on a single smack and i like how fast they are when they let the shinai go (after a millennia of feeling out the opponent) but i feel like kendo could very easily incorporate more kenjutsu techniques and it would be fun to see with how fast they can get.

>>251658
>If anything, they're more common than people believe, since the popular opinion pendulum has shifted into people thinking they're solely fantasy weapons that didn't even really exist.
Fair enough, back when I talked to history dorks a decade ago, many people thought that every single knight had unique weapons like that. I wasn't aware of a shift in thinking and that now people think they didn't exist.
>You vastly overrate Shad's influence if you think he was the driving force behind that.
He used to be very popular back when he was making videos on castle architecture rather than the garbage movie reviews and fantasy weapon reviews he makes nowadays. He's currently unwatchable, but that wasn't always the case.

One of the scariest women I ever knew was this barely 5 foot Japanese granny who taught at our town and moved like fucking lightning. She could take at least 6-8 George Floyd big niggas if you gave her a nice thumping stick.

lol, Batman won the mini tourney against Yarden but then just got destroyed by an out of shape Baruto.

>>255215
wtf stupid competition is this? who signs up to run full speed at another guy to break your shoulder slamming into him?

nEW
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>>255229
right wing australians do this instead of kicking jeets out

>>255217
joke evader

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$300 lift tickets to stand in lines like this.

Crotched and Sunapee weren't too crazy this last week, that being said their food prices would make a rabbi blush.

>>251899
would lowering the ticket prices help?

>>251898
ai photo btw

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>>251898
Reminds me on this

I think it's just head and hands that score but I don't know, never done it before

>>250064
That 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.

>>249491
You are broken, fundamentally. Don't do martial arts. You shouldn't even exist.

>>249491
Brugada syndrome?

>>254833
Nah, a form of cardiomyopathy.

>>242819
How the hell is this thread still alive?

>>243035
>be op pic
>be black
>mods won't touch you
Bit racis innit?

>>242819
granny jumpin not double ditchin like ya shoulda been

>>242819
So ugly.

>>238506
Kek. This guy's right, op.

>>241440
Why are you responding earnestly to this shitposter? Just go with the flow and shitpost back.

>>243614
baited

>>243618
Bait baited

>>235295
Just buy a gun.

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Started learning Ananku today lads. Thank fuck it is a third of the length that seisan was. The knife hand blocks seem interesting and my sensei showed me they allow for different options depending on how/when you deploy them. Never thought they could be used as spear hand with this kata, but after he destroyed my lung between my ribs as a demonstration i am sold.

My shuffle step sucks and my angles when changing direction are inconsistent.

Aside from rote memorization of the movements how do you guys practice kata?

I like to do it slow to fast and fast to slow. Gradually speeding up or down after each run through. I also do them as tense and as relaxed as i possibly can so i get a feel for the difference.

>>257629
Is Seisan that bad in your style? I thought that's supposed to be fairly simple kata like Naihanchi since it's a tanrengata?
>Ananku
I only ever heard that kata done in Shorinji-ryu.
>Aside from rote memorization of the movements how do you guys practice kata?
Usually I practice it in very slow and light manner for more than a month just to memorize the movements. Then I gradually add speed and power until I get to perform it properly. Then I start researching the bunkai for each and every move from many sources (Shorin-ryu, Shotokan, Shito-ryu, Personal Bunkai and interpretation of Rando Masters). From there I will experiment which bunkai works for me through trials on a dummy and during sparring (since not all of the moves can be done in sparring). Good thing most of my fellow students in the dojo have different backgrounds in martial arts prior to taking up Karate. I find that knowing how apply every move in the Kata makes it easier to remember and perform it with intent. It takes about a year for me to be able to do the whole kata to my satisfaction. And you still find surprising things about it, like being able to defend against an attack unconsciously, and learning more possible ways to use it when you lose in sparring while reviewing the video footages (you get more scenarios that you previously didn't even thought about).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vkJQ-MBp7M
Found an interesting video on youtube, has some of the weird taikiken movement flows Hajime Kazumi was super fond of

>>257929
secret trvke....

Kyokushinbros....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjuZaQpJEo
Also wow, what a small dojo

>>254132
Find a good MMA gym. You'll learn both stand up and grappling, which is what you need in the world today. You want to be able to fight on your feet and avoid having to grapple as much as possible. Grappling is nice, but if you're on the ground in a bar or on the street, somebody is going to try and soccer kick your head off while you're trying to land that rear naked on you opponent.

No MMA gym? Then find a good boxing gym.

>>254132
Boxing is the perfect self-defense art
Effective, affordable, low skill floor, and you can find a boxing gym virtually everywhere
Kickboxing and Muay Thai are more effective, but sacrifice the simplicity and availability
Grappling in general - wrestling, bjj, judo, sambo - is extremely effective, but the skill floor is very high, you're looking at a significant time (and monetary, in some cases) investment before you can fight effectively

>>254627
You can teach someone body lock takedown into rear naked choke or high crotch into slam in a few minutes

>>254629
But that's not what being an effective grappler is - because you know one move that's applicable in one specific situation, and the moment your opponent does anything that even slightly deviates from it, you're screwed
It's like only knowing how to throw a left hook and calling yourself a boxer

There's no one size fits all answer. If you choose grappling you won't learn how to punch. If you choose striking you won't know how to grapple. So do MMA or just find a gym with multiple martial arts

>>253360
Zorbing is eternal

>>188017
>The Thing movie poster

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>2+ year old thread about this entire thing
4chan truly is a miracle sometimes

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>>254379
Zorbed out

>>244249
There is some difference. In the military you are doing a job. A climber like this is an athlete pushing himself to achieve a goal that may or may not be possible for them. Like a mountaineer attempting a peak, Balin would have been making constant risk judgements during this ascent and constantly pushing his own comfort zone. The route he just completed is rated A4, the most dangerous grade for AID routes. There is no level of discipline or precision that could remove all risk from a climb like that.

Yes, in the end he died from an error that could have been prevented with a simple safety check. I just hope this provides some perspective on the mindset of a climber who makes a mistake like this. In the last days he has been repeatedly and intentionally destroying his natural aversion to risk in order to achieve this goal, and now he is faced with one last tiny risky procedure that he has done dozens of times on this route. And he makes the wrong call.

>>244018
For those who are looking for more technical information about what exactly happened in the moments leading up to this accident you would be best served by reading this write-up from the excellent writer and expert solo climber Andy Kirkpatrick:
https://open.substack.com/pub/andykirkpatrick/p/the-kill-pause

>>254178
I'll translate Andy's description here, for those interested. Hopefully this will be decipherable even for non-climbers.

Having completed the climb, Balin still has three tasks to complete: 1) descend to the previous anchor 2) ascend back to the top while retrieving his safety gear from the rock 3) haul his haul bag up to the top.

There are two ropes in his system: the first is the lead line, which he used to climb the route. The second is the haul line, which is attached to his bag of equipment and is used to haul it up after him. Both are equally strong.

First, he descends, rappelling on his haul line. After reaching the previous anchor, he notes that there is a great deal of slack in the haul line. He needs to release the haul bag from the anchor and let it swing out into space so that he can later retrieve it. The easiest way to remove this slack is just to reattach the bag to the rope above the slack and leave the rest dangling below in a long tail. He does this.

Second, he ascends his lead line by jumaring while cleaning his gear. This is a long and physical process, but he finally reaches the top once again, with only a single task remaining.

>>254182
Third, he must haul the bag up to him. This is done by laboriously pulling the haul line through a one-way pulley. He proceeds with the hauling until his bag gets stuck, hung up below and overhanging roof. He must descend and fix the problem himself. This is where Balin makes his fatal decision. He decides to descend on the other end of the haul line, the end that has been pulled through the one-way pulley. The advantage of this is that he can use his own weight as a counter-balance while he works to free the stuck haul bags. As we know, this line was not long enough to reach the bags, and he will fall off the end to his death. So why was he so sure that it would be long enough, so sure that he didn't bother to pull it up and tie a knot in the end? He can see that the bag is close to the top, and he knows that the haul line is much more than twice that distance, and so he can be sure that there is enough length of rope for him to reach the bags. However, he forgot that he had earlier reattached the bag to the haul line to remove the slack, leaving a long tail of rope dangling below. As a result, the haul line that Balin decides to use for his rappel is much shorter than he thought. And so, as he descends to his bag, the end of the rope passed through his device and he falls.

>>247187
Very few people enjoy the Outdoors because of the “Danger.” There are people who are insecure with themselves and gravitate towards dangerous things to make themselves feel more manly or wahtever

>>244018
>>244037
Alex won.

>>253939
surly ogre

>>254000
checked. do you think he wishes he was biking?

I'd get a guide and get some skills at least if your friends don't know what they're doing either. You can ask them anything you want on the way about planning, what to look for, etc.

Did Hood last year with Kaf Adventures wasn't too expensive and good. It's super bootpacked so very hard to get lost but moreso for the knowledge it was beneficial.

Mountainclimbing is awesome!

>>253419
Mt. Hood is dangerous. Just because it’s close to a city and there is a very nice ski resort on it people think it’s going to be easy and safe

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>>255327
It's the most autistic "sport" imaginable, so it's perfect for 4channers. Thing is, it only really runs for two weeks every two months, so we're not big enough to stay on /sp/, but the only other board for combat sports is /xs/, which clearly struggles to contain our autistic output.

>>255327
>>255328
I hate sports but I love Japan and sumo is about the cultural tradition than "sport" to me and I enjoy Japanese culture.

>>255328
True, as a 'tist I really enjoy figuring out the banzuke changes and torikumi

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Old lady with a gigantic pompadour.

>>255327
2 very large and surprisingly muscular and fast men slapping and shoving the fuck out of each on a stage that's basically concrete.
Its the perfect sport.

Yeah I mean this is like a V2 bouldering problem (x10). He must be laughing to the bank at the chinks paying him to do the easiest climb.

>>253937
No one's claiming that the movements are the hard part

>>253937
If you have to thrust your body, which he did here, that is more than a V2, probably a V3 or V4

>>247876
You 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.

>>200580
Eskrima/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.

>>200851
The blade alone gives at least + 11 agility so yeah . Better safe than sorry