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Topic	when no one at your dojo can fight
LostForest 05/11/19 2:52:15 AM #29:	Guide posted... 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. Yeah I remember I had a few friends who went to aikido McDojos in their teen years and it always seemed pretty iffy. I think I asked my parents to take me since anything martial arts related looks cool when you're 8, but I feel like they ended up not because it was too expensive. For me personally since I was interested in actually competing in fight shows when I got older, I took up K-1 and muaythai since they're actually practical for self-defense (and because they're actually entertaining to watch/perform lol). Tbqh even though I just turned 30 a few months ago, I've had the itch to compete again since I'm in some of the best shape of my life, maybe even better than when I was actually competing in shows. Similar to my parents saying when I was young, boxing programs are just so damn expensive though lol. --- http://poorcouplesfoodguide.com <cite>LostForest posted [p:921747111] in when no on... [t:77707450]...</cite> <quote><cite>Guide posted...</cite> <quote><cite>LostForest posted...</cite> <quote>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.</quote> 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.</quote> Yeah I remember I had a few friends who went to aikido McDojos in their teen years and it always seemed pretty iffy. I think I asked my parents to take me since anything martial arts related looks cool when you're 8, but I feel like they ended up not because it was too expensive. For me personally since I was interested in actually competing in fight shows when I got older, I took up K-1 and muaythai since they're actually practical for self-defense (and because they're actually entertaining to watch/perform lol). Tbqh even though I just turned 30 a few months ago, I've had the itch to compete again since I'm in some of the best shape of my life, maybe even better than when I was actually competing in shows. Similar to my parents saying when I was young, boxing programs are just so damn expensive though lol. --- http://poorcouplesfoodguide.com</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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