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Chinese kids practising their beautiful shadow boxing...in slippers..?!
I'm in awe. I had to repeat this video a few times because it was so dang beautiful. Their style is very similar to the Russian/Ukrainian style.
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Armbar in 3 seconds from CG!
Video source: Roy Dean, the treasure trove that keeps on giving.
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When someone wants to win, it doesn't mean that they will...
Even when they're two or three belt ranks higher. 😂 The belt colour does not entitle guaranteed wins over other lower-ranked belts.
(I've seen a whitey trounce a purple more than once, and that created an uproar. Or in psych terms, cognitive dissonance.
Then the juicy part of coping with that unpleasant feeling starts--the cognitive bias steps in.)
I hope you understand I don't owe you an apology if you hate being analysed. 😂 (Refer to top image of this post).
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You'd want a cool and capable team with you during the zombie apocalypse.
Learning so much from Zombieverse!
Edit: I was NOT expecting potato guns and zombie cage fighting where the rear bearhug is the main technique for grappling zombies 😂😂😂
Potato guns?
They boiled and ate the ammunition?
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I would like to thank these guys for showing me an alternate escape to the armbar.
Why? Because some pint-sized blue belt decided she wanted to boost her ego and armbar me for real at 150% strength when it was just a technique exchange during a break time in class.
I easily escaped thanks to that YouTube video.
Said blue belt then went to complain about injustice to the instructor when I beat her again at another discipline. I didn't even use 15% of my strength.
I think it's time for me to accept that I have a tremendous advantage in any of the sparring martial arts (except capoeira) and students learning with me who may not be as adept will be triggered. Some may even think I'm the 'bad guy' who joins martial arts classes to push others around for fun. Their reasons for getting triggered will inevitably be irrational.
It's also time for me to accept that perhaps thieves and burglars will avoid me like the plague because I look like the predator, not the prey. I should be safe provided I maintain my fitness and agility; skinny, unarmed thieves won't be. 😂
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Yes, it does look like the cha-cha sometimes...
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Just my opinion 😁
But it seems many others have the same opinion too.
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Is It Normal To Feel Sleepy After A Workout?"
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I've found the painful way that if I go beyond 1 hour for a regular workout session, there's no longer any more energetic benefit.
It's just plain lethargy.
Perks of getting older, I guess 😂
45 to 50 minutes for me, please!
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"Speak in English, please! "
全然わかりませんか？あの...
Once, in my passionate way of finding a technical solution, I spoke to a BJJ practitioner about judo techniques.
She looked at me with a blank expression and said, "Speak in English, please."
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In Game of Thrones terms, it seemed like I was speaking in the ancient tongue of Old Valyria.
"First you kuzushi, then you do a seoi nage or ogoshi, then juji gatame on the ground."
Video/GIF not mine.
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The Dutch Guard--A Revelation
After encountering spinning back kicks and multiple alternate high kicks, I wanted to find a guard other than the ones I've been taught.
The Dutch guard was a revelation.
Video content: @jakemackenzie1 on IG
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The Answer is "Yes"
I guess when I started on this martial arts journey I was figuring out the answer to a question--could I hold my own in a full-contact street fight?
The answer was a "yes", I could hold my own. The answer to that question was figured out somewhat during past intense training sessions and mostly during a full-contact Japanese MMA session (Kudo) that I did with a local community. I absolutely loved the session and my interactions with the multi-talented martial arts practitioners there.
Imagine people who trained karate, judo, muay thai, boxing, BJJ--all in one place. It was glorious. We sparred a little bit and gave each other valuable pointers.
I learnt that I leaned a lot on my boxing and Muay Thai techniques (Thank You, Krus 🙏) because I had leverage with my reach and height plus I was confident in a few effective combos that I had learnt before.
The funny thing was, I found myself automatically doing what my coaches had drilled (and sometimes scolded at me) many times into my sensorimotor cortex. So literally, parts of my coaches were embedded in my brain. Maybe that's why once a teacher, always a teacher.
Thank you all for being part of my journey, and now my brain. 🙇♀️
OSU!
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Let's try Japanese "Budo Karate" with 25 subtitles!"
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I had no idea the rei and seiza movements gave me strength.
Thankfully I can do both rather well.
"It's important to bow with all your heart and honest feelings. With this, your mind and body become one. That's why your body becomes so strong."
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Two psych-based de-escalation tips
From Psych Central:
There's a lot of unspoken/unmet emotional and mental needs when people fight without reason.
More often than not, the triggered emotion is a past emotional wound that hasn't had a chance to heal. Or conditioning that someone else had put onto them.
A trained eye would know the right questions to ask to single out a moment or moments in time of a person's life that require reframing.
In the interim, de-escalate.
And ask, what unmet need is the aggressor trying to fulfill here?
Perhaps they're not too good at verbalising their needs so they resort to fighting?
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6 Martial Arts Experts Took Realistic Self Defense Tests
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Deescalation is also a self-defence technique. I thought Jeff Chan did it very well. Same for Ramsey in his job scenario--he basically flirted his way out of a lose-lose situation. 😂
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Why are small SHIELDs more powerful?"
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Love it that these guys explore weapon styles and take comments from European HEMA players seriously!
The double bladed guy improved towards the end with strategies to counter his sword-and-buckler opponent.
Which made me think... Why isnt there an MMA competition for weapons?
I floated the idea to the guys from the channel because they would be the best positioned to actualize it, if it would ever come into being.
You heard it here first 😁
All those mock katanas, bos, spears, scimitars, axes, longswords, jians, da daos out to play. Of course with participants in padded and armoured gear.
Iron fans?
Throwing axes? Arrows?
Zangetsu?
Glorious.
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Mizuno Hayato Judo Gi Review #judo #judogi #grappling
Speaking about gis, here's a review I made of the Mizuno Hayato Judo gi.
It's marketed by Mizuno as a multi purpose Judo, Jiujitsu, and Aikido gi, but I think I'm gonna extend it's multi purposeness even more! 😂 (Edit: with Kudo, of course.)
Good lightweight gi, will shrink approximately 5cm at the first wash and dry though.
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