http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~is90200/show.wmv
can anyone tell me what style is this ? It looks like wushu, caporeria, karate stances, dragonball stances, stage acting, and bad mouthing all combined.
Has this been posted here before ?
It’s Karate’s answer to Whu Shu.
Man, that dude has some mad acrobatic/gymnastic skills. Gotta give him props for that. Of course, he probably can’t fight his way out of a paper bag unless the paper is susceptible to triple salcos.
I agree with Serpent. He is a pretty good athlete. Can’t really comment on his martial skills - he may be good, he may not.
garbage fist. He was in that movie “The Legend of Junken Master”
Seriously though, he’s a great athlete, obviously. I’d bet he’s an American karate stylist. You hear how the crowd was going wild? That’s what it seems like American Karate forms (the modern/competition forms - they usually teach the traditional forms also) were designed for - to wow the judges and the crowd.
Kinda like the martial arts version of the circus?
why it’s one of them new fangled “musical forms”! Ok, maybe not so new fangled, but hey, looks like a winner in the musical forms competition to me.
he was flipping out. do you think he is a ninja maybe? i mean, what with all the flipping.
cheers
Well he wasn’t whaling on his guitar and he didn’t kill anyone, so he’s a beginner ninja at best.
yeah, a real ninja woulda killed someone, or at least performed seppukku as the grand finale
With a frisbee.
His name is Steve Terada, he’s a karate guy.
Originally posted by Serpent
With a frisbee.
That’s the best way!
Originally posted by KungFuGuy!
His name is Steve Terada, he’s a karate guy.
what’s his fighting like?
As far as I know, it’s non-existant. He trains for what he’s doing in that video.
You know, if this is what the future of karate is, this is seriously scaring me.
First wushu, now karate. Wrestling seems to be on the way down this path. This whole thing is a conspiricy. The acrobat and the circus is phasing out martial arts. What’s next ? Grappling while people are in the middle of a jump ? Swordfights using juggling techniques ? Fencing on a tightrope ?¡@Pretty soon, we will be performing katas/forms with animals !!
Brothers and sisters, it is time to rise up and fight back !!!\
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In regard to kung-fu for display vs. kung fu for fighting debates, I want to point out that acrobatic itself is not necessarily bad from martial point of view.
Once you on the site, click union jack flag for English page, then click video on the menu. Once you done that choose Capoeira. Check out the video “Lino, Isaac & Olivier” at the near bottom of the page but any other video would still do. By the way, historical capoeira fighter in real fight had knife or club on their hand and used lot of headbutt.
In my view, competitive sparing is one way to keep martial arts styles from degenerating into meaningless dance. O.K. I know how bad competitive sparing is if the rules are badly designed like point scoring system for karate/tkd. Then, I think judo is superbly designed sport for grapling&throw and tui shou (pushing hand/sticky hand) is excellent for the power and in-fighting. For what I see from the vid, capoeira has their own good sparing system which is designed for their particular fighting system.
yes…it’s Steve Terada…
these are the now infamous “artistic martial arts”…doing funky tricks and wild poses to some grooving tunes…
I can’t stand that crap…well, but at least the guys are clear about what they do, and don’t try to pass it of as martial arts like the wushu does sometimes :rolleyes:
anyway…they are tremendous athlete for sure…but the whole concept of it depresses me…
Originally posted by Vapour
[B]In regard to kung-fu for display vs. kung fu for fighting debates, I want to point out that acrobatic itself is not necessarily bad from martial point of view.
Once you on the site, click union jack flag for English page, then click video on the menu. Once you done that choose Capoeira. Check out the video “Lino, Isaac & Olivier” at the near bottom of the page but any other video would still do. By the way, historical capoeira fighter in real fight had knife or club on their hand and used lot of headbutt.
In my view, competitive sparing is one way to keep martial arts styles from degenerating into meaningless dance. O.K. I know how bad competitive sparing is if the rules are badly designed like point scoring system for karate/tkd. Then, I think judo is superbly designed sport for grapling&throw and tui shou (pushing hand/sticky hand) is excellent for the power and in-fighting. For what I see from the vid, capoeira has their own good sparing system which is designed for their particular fighting system. [/B]
The thing about capoeira is that it’s not acrobatic in application. Caporeistas do alot of infighting - takedowns, elbows and headbutts. If you look at that vid, you can see it in there. I’ve got a nice vid of a takedown from capoeira that I may have posted before - If not, and anyone’s interested, I’ll put it up somewhere. Acrobatic karate and wushu, as far as I know, is meant to be showy, and all of the flips and flash don’t have any real application, like in the vid that was posted here.
Hey, there are plenty more here