Oh yeah barbarian,
You’ll notice in the picture that my thumbs aren’t in position…
Since you know so much about Kung fu, I did this on purpose, what’s the correct position of the thumbs?
Barbarian,
This is the stance I was taught in… dragon stance (remember I said curved open hands)
Dragon stance is used for catching and breaking.
Realistically, a fighter will use multiple stances in a fight (styles), everyone has their dominant though.
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.
This is nonsense Ecmandu. How are the hyper dimensional mirrors coming?
I’d like to see a real argument from you.
Would you step into a ring with someone who can split a skull in a single strike from multiple angles?
You guys don’t even know what you’re talking about, and it’s sad and pathetic.
The hyperdimensional mirrors are still being solidified into reality, lots of problems to solve with those.
Hahahahahahahaha you’re the best man. Don’t let anyone ever tell you otherwise.
I’m not the best man. I am the best at having knowledge nobody else has for being the best man… there’s a big difference.
Is the discussing of martial arts and who really knows what he is talking about a part of Incel Culture?
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.
You’re assuming that everything was done in class.
We were given HOMEWORK!!!
Every once in a while we’d be given TESTS on our HOMEWORK!!
Do you have any idea how hard it is to straighten knuckles?? It’s bloody man, practicing on cinders.
You will pass out when holding a horse stance beyond your limit!!
I don’t even remember how it came up.
Regardless, I stated my peace on my take on being an incel:
Men and women don’t know how to have consensual sex. That is involuntary to me. Until they do, I will be and remain celibate
Um yes, a fighter practices hours every day on his own as that is what he DESIRES.
He desires to push himself to the utmost.
Yes, I know bloody fists, dude. Jesus.
Go out and punch some gravel.
And long before you reach 12 hours. That was exactly my point.
How long could you hold it for the longest?
Ill knows if you’re lying.
The idea is not to smash your bones, as this will simply interrupt your training. The idea is to toughen them by working with them at the edge of their capacity, not beyond it. Well beyond comfort levels though.
Punching stone is only part of the process. The most important part is the attainment of pure chi consciousness, where you can’t feel the difference between matter and energy.
The greatest master Ive received value from is a yogi, who claims he is thousands of years old and would survive a nuclear blast. And I don’t even have the arrogance to deny what I cant know. Babaji. He badass. Supposedly taught Jesus.
On a much lower level, you know who also helped me once?
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
His first production, Pumping Iron, has a nugget of wisdom in it, that I required when I had reached a slump after the first six years of kung fu and yoga.
He simply said that if you’re doing repetitions, you can’t stop when you feel you need to stop. You can only stop when your body stops for you.
Need is relevant only in that it tells you your current belief, i.e. your minds weakness.