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Whats with the karate chops????
by highdose 17 Replies latest jw friends
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cameo-d
Pretty much every industry you see in this world is a lie and a scam. Karate kung fu----it's all parlor tricks as well.
Breaking bricks is a trick. For people who are new to "martial arts" this "feat" is used as a confidence builder. That, in turn makes money for the school. You have to have had so many lessons ($$$) before you are allowed to participate in the tournaments. The registration fees for the tournaments ($$$) not to mention the frequency of these tournaments (every 6 weeks) ...($$$ x $$$) and also tickets for family and friends to come and see you ($$$)....are you getting the picture now?
There are several tricks that may be used in breaking bricks. Sometimes they are separated slighty so that when the first brick is hit, the air inertia causes the subsequent bricks to break against each other. That first brick is sometimes hollow, and if not, it has been thouroughly tapped with a hammer (beforehand and unknown to the new initiates) in order to break it up inside.
As far as breaking boards, there are tricks to that, too. Sometimes the boards are BAKED so that they become brittle. Sometimes they are scored or cracked by going in through the corner of the board so that it is not noticeable.
In the early days there were only a few belts. Go into any martial arts school today and you will see a rainbow of colors and many degrees. All of this has been contrived in order to make more $$$$$$. Go to Korea and those guys will laugh if you tell them you are a second degree pink belt.
Belts are not earned, they are bought.
Racket and a lie.
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PSacramento
Cameo is correct, there is much crap in the MA, though that has always been the case, even in ancient times there were "charlatans".
But there are many excellent schools also.
Having trained in Macao, Japan, Portugal, Spain and Holland, as well as Canada of course, I have seen good AND bad everywhere.
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mindmelda
One of my best friends is black belt in three kinds of martial arts.
The physics of karate or "open hand" is interesting. It takes many years of literally micro fracturing certain bones of the body and forcing them to rebuild into amazing thickness to create a really awesomely strong weapon.
The longer a person practices hitting objects (you start off with light things, obviously and work up!) the thicker the bones become until they are literally stronger than steel. Bone is ounce by ounce comparitively stronger than steel.
The skull, hands and other parts of a long time karate practioner are amazingly thick and strong, like getting hit by an actual metal weapon. Then, you learn a technique that drives the whole energy of the blow through the body part used, the hand, the head, the foot...whatever.
Karate is one of the harder MAs to really master, obviously. Kendo, tai kwando, and other forms of MA are somewhat less hard as they can use weapons to augment the blows. Karate uses only parts of the body made into weapons.
There are also martial arts that use chi manipulation like Russian systema,(very freaky...there's youtube demos about it that will totally amaze you, it involves blows to precise areas that control certain nerves and can do all sorts of things to the opponents body functions...it's where the idea of the"Vulcan Nerve Pinch' came from on Star Trek) and those that use kickboxing/judo/boxing techniques.
Kung fu or "gung fu" is a very generic term, and isn't necessarily about MA. It means becoming highly skilled at anything, mentally, spiritually and physically. One can become "gung fu" at cooking, or making a sword, or at scholarship.
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PSacramento
The Microfracture "theory" is quite correct, the issue is the damage done in the long term, which is addressed in IMA ( Internal Martial arts) like Ba gua, Taiji and so forth and in most TCMA, but only recently has been giving proper understanding in the Japanese/okinawan/korean MA.
The microfracture view I use to make the layman understand is that of the barefoor runner VS the runner with cushioned shoes.
The "uncushioned" impact of the barefoot runner cause more force to be transfered to the bones.
Most TCMA use what is commonly called Dit Da Jow to offset the damage and potential ill side effects.
Most DDJ is basically a bruise medication and world great, but sepcialized one use din iron hand training are far beyond those.
Mindmelda, I have a few systema friends and non-friends, don't pay too much attention to that "stuff".
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Twitch
"First you must fill your head with knowledge. Then you can break bricks with it" - The Simpsons
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Quirky1
I'll take lamb chops on the grill..
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PSacramento
I'll take lamb chops on the grill..
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