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[Hanslanda]

... Just learn a year of wrestling and boxing, and fuck up every martial artist you meet instead.

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[Hanslanda]

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Wrestling as in Greco-Roman wrestling is one of the most effective and basic martial arts. And boxing is literally the art of beating people to death with your fists.

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[Yoink]

I would love to learn some form of fighting style, but my fitness is still a work-in-progress and I would be ashamed of my lifelong lack of coordination/spatial sense.

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[hops]

Re. Mahjong and getting your ass handed to you while playing various traditional board games:

The thing about old games is that if you're winning as a beginner, then you're playing where the game isn't very popular. Real Go clubs and Chess clubs have those smarmy people that you wish you could beat to wipe the grin off their face but they're so superhumanly good and you just start having fun trying to see how close you can get to winning.

[Kagus]

I don't advise you to get as close as wrestling if you want to defend yourself. Boxing is definitly up to the task, but it can't hurt to know stuff about legs, hence the (kick).

Thing is, fights don't always follow the recommended guidelines. Striking is all well and good so long as you can maintain the correct distance and have enough space to work with. Sometimes, though, that's just not how the fight goes, or even how it starts. Having a good base in grappling techniques is really a good idea so as to not turn into a dead fish the moment someone grabs you.

I used to do taekwondo, where precisely Fuckall% of the curriculum is dedicated to grappling... I believe there was a whole singular once during my years working with the stuff when we had a sparring session with grappling.

I got paired up with a big lump who apparently had some background in school wrestling, so my win on a technicality was rather unexpected, to say the least...

But yeah, taekwondo is one of those martial arts that I tend to refer to as "more art than martial"... Very pretty, not very applicable.

We also had some hand-to-hand in the army, but that was under the direction of a fresh-baked lieutenant who was horribly intimidated by the prospect of teaching a bunch of bargain bin grunts, so most of the classes for the entire week (yes, a whole week!) of combat training were terribly disjointed and uncoordinated.

Sparring is always fun though.

[Arx]

... Just learn a year of wrestling and boxing, and fuck up every martial artist you meet instead.

The problem with this is that most functional martial arts* represent at least one of those with the limiters removed. An MMA fighter against a boxer in a brawl would be a very sad sight indeed, since boxing basically ignores the legs aside from footwork. Neither boxing nor wrestling will prepare you for sweeps or knee kicks, for instance.

*Obviously tai chi kata isn't going to do you much good in a fight, as an extreme example.

[Yoink]

* Yoink invokes the power of la.

Yoga is like, the deadliest martial art, man. You don't wanna mess with a yogic black belt, believe me.   

[Rowanas]

* Yoink invokes the power of la.

Yoga is like, the deadliest martial art, man. You don't wanna mess with a yogic black belt, believe me.   

I'm a natural grappler, I can't help myself but it's the most useful style to know when it comes to swordplay, which is the only combat I get involved in.

[Hanslanda]

... Just learn a year of wrestling and boxing, and fuck up every martial artist you meet instead.

The problem with this is that most functional martial arts* represent at least one of those with the limiters removed. An MMA fighter against a boxer in a brawl would be a very sad sight indeed, since boxing basically ignores the legs aside from footwork. Neither boxing nor wrestling will prepare you for sweeps or knee kicks, for instance.

*Obviously tai chi kata isn't going to do you much good in a fight, as an extreme example.

Yeah, boxing and wrestling just teach the fundamentals of fighting. Mix some MMA or similar in with them to round it out.

* Yoink invokes the power of la.

Yoga is like, the deadliest martial art, man. You don't wanna mess with a yogic black belt, believe me.   

I'm a natural grappler, I can't help myself but it's the most useful style to know when it comes to swordplay, which is the only combat I get involved in.

... How do you feel about rooftops and thunderstorms?

[Rowanas]

... How do you feel about rooftops and thunderstorms?

My little musketeer beard/moustache ensemble twitches with excitement at the thought.

[Hanslanda]

... How do you feel about rooftops and thunderstorms?

My little musketeer beard/moustache ensemble twitches with excitement at the thought.

*crosses out Arx and writes Rowanas on his "List of Forumites to Duel On a Thunderstorm Swept Rooftop*