If Wing Chun is boxing, and gorillas using hammerfists is boxing, then your definition of boxing is so far-reaching as to make it meaningless....
It looks legit to me. What struck you as looking fake? I would presume the Gracies would check out the stories before doing a breakdown too, as...
That is a matter of attributes, not technique. You are conflating so many things here... statecraft, logistics, bureaucracy, engineering,...
I'm talking about the etymology of the words. You have assigned rigid definitions to them, but the history of those words does not follow your...
That flat thing in your room where all that happened; that's called a TV. All the 3D, smelly stuff outside of that; that's called the real world....
"Pugilism" and "boxing" are synonyms. Some people more recently have tried to tie "pugilism" to older fighting arts, but the two words crop up in...
Even improved attributes is debatable. This holds true if you look at the general population since industrialisation, but not necessarily over...
It all depends on what period you study, no? HEMA covers a large swathe of fighting techniques throughout history, and some of those include...
But the techniques and tactics of boxing have changed within a generation, let alone millennia.
Even when people try their hardest to keep something static, they can't. It's impossible. The context in which a martial art finds itself will...
Because SPAM!
I usually don't care about that kind of thing, but no socks gets to me. Not as much as 3/4 length trousers and flip-flops though... I guess it's...
I thought the same until I turned up at a reception and the groom was in hoody and jeans. That's when I decided the world had gone to hell in a...
Like aaradia said in the post above yours: not so easy to burn knives and medals!
Sounds like Silicon Valley formal wear to me! ;)
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