Martial Arts

Have you ever heard about 'Luck' ?

Only acceptable sport for Nords

Judo.

Good for flexibility, balance, posture. Not great for strength or cardio.

I am planning to do taichi,

all the hard/showoff martial arts do nothing except give you tendonitis, aggravate arthritis or give you injury in general.

taichi actualy incorporates only the good aspects of doing martial arts (total mind, body control) and balance.

Chen Style Taichi is the combination of hard fast and soft slow movements, Yang style is the one that you see old people do in parks.

If you watch some videos of these masters, they are all old as fuck and they have more strength and balance movement than any other people in the world at that age.

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seriously though why do leg day when you can play with swords and get your legs worked that way instead?

I did a single Muay Thai class. I want to go back but I can't afford it.

youtu.be/rgb_0mA2ek0

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There is no way a random dude could ever beat a black belt no matter how much you lift

black belt is like 40 to 60 straight fight with like 15 sec break between
half those 20 yo kid in those video could easily crush couple of ribs of yours in one hit so stop bs
youtu.be/ZJbud6ejPHA

youtube.com/watch?v=_eG6Dnfsxjc

youtu.be/elY9L_7tlpY

maybe if you friend is one of these "black belt "

youtube.com/watch?v=sbHlg1MqrxU

YeEEAAAHHHH

Is aikido good?

also, depending on where you live, there will be pretty french and italian girls

jiu jitsu

I do savate. I think it's pretty neat.

sauce on pic?

Nevermind found it
youtube.com/watch?v=R70Yww3WJWE

Looks painful af

>Muay Thai
total pleb tier. belongs to chink slums.

>sample size = 2

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I did kendo for a bit before I started lifting
It was alright but obviously not actually practical for self defense

Osu.

Do BJJ. there are two dudes with cerebal palsy at my gym and they kick ass.

Judo

Kung Fu and Karate are like the Crossfitters of martial arts, dont do shit but act like they do

Judo and BJJ are the real deal, alpha as fuck

Partially correct. There are exactly 10 useful martial arts (in a hand to hand context, don't care about archaic weapons and am not an urban edc commando so I'll only talk about what I'm knowledgeable about.)

In no particular order they are:
Muay Thai
BJJ
Wrestling
Boxing
Kickboxing
Knockdown Karate
Judo
Sambo
Sanshou
Savate

training multiple in an mma contact aimed at combining them>crosstraining more than one to develop different skills>Doing a single one

Everything else is horseshit. So the only thing wrong about your post is that karate is bullshit. If you do it right, it's not. Sanshou isn't kung fu though, it's a modern form of kickboxing that just happened to be codified in china and given a chinese name. ALL traditional chinese styles are a joke. Whether they were pre communism is irrelevant. They are now.

i dont get why you call it cross fit. kung fu and wushu is for art form it is traditional. karate and kickboxing have very few differences. why do you insult them when you know next to nothing

ah yes another mma obsessed american... because people only learn martial arts to try to beat people up. try pulling an omoplata on someone on the street theyll fight for their lives and crush your testicles to nonexistence and try to claw your eyes out and if both of you survive now you are in court for assault. or perhaps you fall down and your head hits the concrete at the wrong angle and you die instantly like that kid who got punched by the bouncer. or you act tough and some midget stabs you and you bleed out in a bangkok alleyway. or maybe gun, pipe bomb etc.
now if you are a person with half a frontal lobe you would realize that wushu and traditional martial arts are good for exercise and coordination, it is also a social art and there is a great history to them. martial arts on the street mean so so little. so little. it is pitiful. every street fight in a life or death situation just boils down to a 10 second cat fight in which someone gets brutalized or maimed for life or someones friends comes to stomp the fuck out of you and perhaps even kill you. all I can say is, thank you american media.

I'm not American but solid guess. Like most people on this Cherokee Potato Surveying Newsgroup I'm doing martial arts as a hobby/exercise, and don't get into lethal street fights. The last times I have brawled were in highschool, and fists were thrown clumsily, not knives or bats.

I have done traditional arts (taekwondo, shotokan, hapkido) in various schools for probably a decade all up and I will agree on every point, but that's not what I want. I want a something practical. I'm not there to socialise, I'm there to punch and be punched. I abhor the idea of a street situation, and I'm never in places where such things happen (I don't drink and I don't have friends, seriously, all I want to do is study, work and train.)

I have a death threat over my head (something you might not know about you coddled fuck), but I slept with the wrong woman a few years back and now some...let's say political extremists, heh, want to kill me. I went to a local sporting store and purchased a heavy wooden baseball bat for like $35. I'd put more stock in that than I would any of the arts I've trained in in a real life, fluid situation. Obviously if attacked I'd escalate as far as needed. But I don't do martial arts for fear of being attacked (again, despite an actual threat, unlike your vague, constant paranoia) I don't do them to win fights. I do them because I enjoy them. Hell, I love them. I love the process of training, the punishment and the self improvement. I love to compete You'd never meet me on the street but if we met in the gym, and you couldn't pull a knife or glass me (which, really? Are you proud of thinking like such a sociopath?) I'd happily spar you, no matter who won. This is fun for me.

Anyone watching ufc tonight? Want to get hype with my boys

>Joe Rogan AND DC commentating
Wat

I just read the first couple sentences of your last paragraph, incredibly autistic. Sincerely consider never posting again.

I do BJJ casually, but have friends who compete/teach. I highly recommend it for general fitness and self defense, as it focuses on live rolling.

If you're interested in branching out or competing in MMA, Muay Thai and western Boxing/Wrestling are good choices.

This is an oversimplification, but anything else is more time than it's worth.