They may be trained killers, but they’re not allowed to use it on the mat. You can’t just grab a guys head and twist it in a fraction of a second until it snaps, and they’re dead before they hit the mat.
Sam Harris is a moron for stating that ju jitsu is the proven dominant martial art. He takes ju jitsu.
He’s a moron (misinformed/misunderstanding/ignorant)
Every art is the most dominant art in martial arts, it depends on the person.
Generally speaking, striking and breaking arts are the most superior … but even ju jitsu teaches these.
They’re not allowed in UFC !
So people get a very skewed version of what a fight is supposed to be in martial arts from this retarded tv show.
So there’s something called beginners mind/luck in martial arts. The longer someone trains, the less chaotic they become, this phenomenon allows newbies to get hits in. To be well trained is to always have beginners mind.
When we used to do chi sou (translated as sticky hands - better known as sparring) some new student would come in and get a hit, and Sifu would yell “you know nothing!”
Oh yeah, but I’m making this all up, right barbarian ?!
So, I looked online for a video that depicts elephant style. There were none.
I’ll explain it to you here.
So…
Someone takes the basic tiger stance, and then holds their two front arms (bent at the elbow like two elephant trucks), and gets full body coverage from this stance. Of you have a question about this, I can take a picture of myself and upload it.
For the record, and I stated this earlier, I NEVER got a black sash. I’m not even a bad ass in my own school!
All I was taught was striking and breaking …
Breaking actually involves grappling …
Am I the biggest bad ass ever or even close?
No way.
Not even close.
The question here was whether I studied southern shaolin for multiple years.
I think I answered that question.
Now I’m 70 pounds overweight, I limp on my left foot (no idea why, never had a doctor look at it) and have smoked 3 packs a day for almost 30 years. Beating me up is like beating up a 100 year old woman.
I will add to this… I have absolutely no clue what you mean by strikers and combination moves. I’ve never heard of it, no clue what you’re talking about.
We used to pass coconuts around the class, what’s needed to break a human skull open.
I never could break one… I tried, I never could.
The move that I was best at, was lunging into someone on a sweep and dropping their back on my other kneeled knee.
For some weird reason, I was really good at that.
Older students in my school did do full contact, almost got one of the students killed.
Do you consider that an appropriate response to “ecmandu is a liar” ?
If I was a grappler and I knew someone could always crush a human skull with a single blow, I’d never step into that ring.
That’s just me, I may be ignorant, but that’s what I’d do.
I was in a school that ONLY taught to kill. No drawn out “sloppy fights”, as you said, with what “combination moves!!?!?” Is that what you think strikers are?
You’re misinformed.
If you don’t kill on the first hit, you’re dead, that’s how my sifu taught.
Honestly, I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
I see youve reverted to giving more accurate information.
Before, you were ranting about “beating your fists to pulp” and doing 12 hour sessions of horse stance.
Now, you pretend as if you didn’t say these ridiculous clownish insults to Shaolin, and you come with some facts.
Yes I can, or at least could, break a skull with one blow. I scared the shit out of my fellow students and a bunch of them refused to spar with me because my arms and fists are or were too hard.
I still do fist pushups on gravel most mornings to wash off the sleep from the tendons. There is so much weariness in people tendons.
Basically martial arts are valuable only as a form of shamanism. If you don’t have shamanism behind it (and original Shaolin is pure shamanism) then MA is complete nonsense.
Look at that pathetic McGregor. One of the least impressive humans I have ever seen.
At least you need to know you’re able to kill on a single hit. This completely determines your approach to the situation and makes you approach it surgically rather than in a frenzy.
The thing is you don’t necessarily want to kill someone. You just need to be able to.
