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LostForest posted...

This is the downside of studying straight discipline martial arts. It has virtually no real-world combat prowess.

Like, obviously if you know martial arts, you shouldn't just go around starting fights. But stuff like taekwondo is basically just for show/sporting since in a bar fight (or mall fight in this case lol) there's no ref to step in and hand a penalty card to your opponent for stepping in too quickly or something. If you find yourself getting attacked by some brute IRL, you're fucked lol.

Any school that restricts itself to the art and nothing else can be recognized as either something specifically in the competition set, bullshit. Whole point of free sparring is to see what works. It's not taught traditionally, but you're allowed to go for any kind of grapple you want in, say, yoshukai karate during free spar, long as it's acknowledged beforehand, because they (or my teacher at least) recognized how useful groundwork is.

Also, since we're on the topic, aikido's main problem is having it's head so far up its ass that it falsely advertises itself as useful for combat.

It really should market itself as tai chi. It's relaxing, good exercise for old people, one of the applied holds is actually taught to cops, but lol it's not for fighting and hasn't been since the war was over.
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