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I train to be dangerous and get as good as I can at techniques that I enjoy. Those are done for their own sake, but I do sort of angle towards...
Tons of heel hooks, never been injured. I was stubborn on on toehold and got a partial ligament tear that took a few months to heal. Lots of...
My understanding is that they existed but were the equivalent of modern long-form kata. Which is to say they remind someone who already knows the...
Unless you consider the community that makes up the world practice of Aikido to reflect in some way on Aikido itself. Personally, I think the...
People act like excluding unscripted resistant training from classes isn't a rule. There is a lot more to navigating non consensual violence...
But the people who train to punch from a guard (boxers, Thai boxers, kickboxers, etc) have much better body mechanics, learned earlier and more...
They're right. Forms are fine as a performance on their own but they don't actually make you better at anything but forms. And everyone has a...
Well just look at the other videos on Funker Tactical. They're not going to let practicality or nuance g et in the way of showing off a cool...
FWIW training with a gun in hard sparring and competition (as well as seamlessly integrating your shooting skill set into all the others) is as...
Oh it absolutely does. The problem is that all the meritorious portions seem almost exclusively to be Sambo, imported by Sambists. That's been the...
I don't know that it does matter, so long you know what you are driving towards and honestly steer in that direction. That isn't terribly common...
Frankly if a martial art (or more realistically the community of practitioners) doesn't at least prepare you to competently fight one unarmed dude...
Oh of course, my point is that that's a lot more feasible for larger techniques or objectives than for the small sort of blocks, jams and distance...
Its because in compliant drills, it's neither exciting nor impressive to simpy cut an angle or jam a grip. It's also very difficult to drill...
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