LOL! ON this point Rolling Elbow I can wholeheartadly agree with you.
I have taken Chinese, Korean, and Japanese styles and I can honestly say that while some knife training was interesting it was all inherantly flawed.
I would train outside of class with my partners and I came to one conclusion. In a knife-fight, more often then not, you will be cut. In fact, I would tell junior students that they WOULD get cut, definately.
I speak from my TKD experience with kinfe training. The moves in the demos and the two man forms are very impressive and can work.
The only problem is that they can only work under lab environments that take human nature out of the equation. To disarm a knife weilder using TKD techniques is laughably dangerous. In fact it is dangerous under the best of circumstances.
I think the USMC does a much better job at knife training then I have ever seen from the MA’s in practice or demo.
Just give it a rest, boxer"chick". It’s obvious that you posted this because you somehow thought it would prove your theory of martial arts being useless. We have good reason to suspect you being a male. For starters, it’s obvious that you picked some random picture. You’re incredibly fervent in creating the awareness that you’re some bad @ss boxing girl, yet it’s not even in the hobby list of that person you linked.
Plus, you’re not the first to try this. Anyone remember jackie or stacy? Stacy is slightly less annoying, but at least jackie had the good grace to leave as soon as everyone found out that she/he was a man. Then we have Nafanal, the only woman posing as a (slightly deranged) man!
That guy in drunken master is kicking air AND kicking at 10 times the speed after they have sped up the film to account for his blistering speed!
As for my gf and TKD, she likes the exercise and more or less new it was a “pretty art”. Unfortunately, i think over time now, she has bought into it and tells me all about these great defenses which suck my a$%. she raged about this black belt in class who was incredible and spinning and jumping kicks. I visited her dojang and had a look..lets just say I had to keep myself from laughing. I am soo confident that what I saw was a joke, that I told her it would take me about 45 seconds to submit anyone of them.. to the ground and pound. they were SOO light on their feet it was disgusting. They didn’t even have power in their kicks. Oh well..I got to see the board breaking demo and let me just say that you never really know when boards are gonna hit back!
All I wanna know is, what the heck is “TaekwonDOIE?”
Yea, the knife defense stuff I have learned is just..bad and the worse thing is that we all laugh about it and no one takes it seriously anyway..course maybe that is a good thing..why learn it though if it is completely useless AND we all know it? If I tried that against someone with a knife I’d probably walk away with a new opening in my heart box!
I wil just use my deadly, “shriek like a school girl and run away with hands flailing” routine.
