This Martial Arts Nonsense
After the thread about grandmaster Tu’s martial penis, I believe a public spanking is in order for all these so-called martial arts from the East and Far East. We know that the oldest schools such as the Chi of Shaolin are simply circus-acts, that their extraordinary ‘accomplishments’ are the work of scam-artists and their supposedly age-old ‘mystery’ philosophies are bogus. It is all stunts and unproven theories, no facts and measurable achievements.
Even the more pedestrian schools and varieties such as judo and jiujitsu are mostly nonsense, many of their instructors lack elementary knowledge of sports physiology and their moves involve a lot of art and almost no martiality. According to street fighter and boxing instructor Ned Beaumont an average boxer can take out any Eastern-style ‘ultimate killer’ with a wrestling hold and a couple well-placed hooks and jabs. Just look at the silly spinning routines of Tae Kwon Do and ask yourself: what use is a kick that has been telegraphed to the intended victim half an hour before? Ridiculous. Karate destroys your fitness because it consists of short outbursts of activity, all in similar mold, and in between long periods of standing still in unnatural poses (mind your meniscus, people).
The only place where this nonsense belongs is in a fighting ring where every participant is bound by the same rules. Out on the street Eastern styles always lose out against good old Western boxing techniques. If anything, Eastern martial arts instructors make unnecessary victims because they give their students a false sense of confidence.
Finally, why are dojo’s decorated like Chinese temples and Japanese brothels? ‘There is no reason to hang Japanese slogans on the walls, especially if no-one can read them,’ writes British karateka Kevin Boone: ‘There is no reason to make obseisance to the founders of karate -- they are dead, and beyond mortal concern. Many karate practitioners feel that karate is a Japanese art and that their training practices should be rooted in Japan. But consider this: would you expect a Japanese rugby football team to carry on its training in pidgin English? Would you expect the team headquarters to be decorated with Union Jacks and horse brasses? Would you expect the players to finish a match, drink ten pints of lager and get into the showers together while singing Eskimo Nell? Of course you wouldn't. But that's what many British karate clubs are doing, in effect.’
Oh, and he also says this: ‘Have you ever wondered how some martial artists can punch through an eight-inch thickness of concrete slabs? I'm going to let you into a closely-guarded secret here, so listen carefully. All you have to do is -- are you paying attention? -- all you have to do is to practice punching hard objects for years and years and years. That's all there is to it. But don't tell anyone I told you, because it's a secret.’
What does this tell us about poor grandmaster Tu? I mean, imagine him going through years and years and years of these warm-ups…
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Originally Posted by AdrianII
Nice try, AdrianII. A big GAH for you on this one. Responding to this in any detail would be like an expert historian responding to the notion that the Holocaust didn't happen. It seems to me that you've made a grand generalization, implicitly equating the likes of this stretched charlatan with great men like Ueshiba Morihei and Bruce Lee, baiting folks here and hoping for an entertaining free-for-all. 
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(That was courtesy of our Texas state champion welterweight showed me how to land nice long range rights to the body, hooking at the end.)
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