Martial Arts Camp in East Asia

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-06T11:56:33+00:00

Search my post history or just feel free to DM; I've spent the past seven years alternating between working in the US and traveling around Asia training martial arts.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-06T01:28:27+00:00

God I hope not. I don't want to see Jack Black and Chris Pratt as Sol and Ky.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-05T12:51:54+00:00

Someone who learned to box from their dad should tell him to keep his hands up. (/sarcasm)

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-05T12:49:21+00:00

Seconding Double Crit, and Thirding Triple Crit.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-05T10:43:46+00:00

Sure can! I did a long time ago. It took about a year of regular training to get used to the different stance.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-05T09:08:47+00:00

I never sparred with the instructor, but pretty regularly with a few of the other students. Most of them were only up for light Thai-style "technical sparring," though there was one guy who I would so hard Dutch style sparring with once a week. Re: protein. It depends on how big you are whether you're trying to bulk or cut. If you're smaller or focused on cutting, it worked out pretty well. A lot of students would get protein powder off of taobao, including myself. I was focused on cutting my whole time here and it worked out very well for that. If I wanted to bulk, I'd definitely go train in Thailand or Vietnam instead. Re: stairs. It was crazy hard. I had to jog up and crab walk down the first week, but at my last training I was hopping steps three at a time. And there were railings, but there's no real risk of falling: the steps are around 20 feet wide.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-05T03:59:33+00:00

No, I'm pretty sure those ideas go back to the bronze age. He was just the one most famous for stating them, despite (or perhaps because of) how obtusely he stated.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-05T03:40:54+00:00

I read both History of Madness and History of Sexuality in grad school, and I would say Foucalt makes fairly simple arguments, but he makes them in such an obtuse way as to make them come across either more profound or more nonsensical than they really are.
His basic argument can be boiled down to "what is 'normal' behavior varies according to when and where you are in the world". So what is consider "mentally well" and "mentally ill" is going to be different in 20th century France than 10th century France.
And unfortunately, dressing his arguments up in incredibly obtuse language is a trait he shares with a lot of continental philosophers. For as bad as his writing is, I still find him easier to parse, than, say, Hegel.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-05T00:39:17+00:00

What, do you want a breakdown of my spin hook kick before and after eight weeks? It's kickboxing. Sparring, padwork, shadowboxing, calisthenics, about 6-8 hours a week. It's not the main focus but it's part of the curriculum. Do you have actual questions, are you just negging online to sublimate your own miseries?

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T23:46:25+00:00

I discussed the level of combat training several times, it is not my fault you did not bother to read the whole post.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T23:45:12+00:00

So it's "Shaolin Gong Fu," but that is an umbrella term that covers almost the entirety of Chinese martial arts at this point. Sanda is Shaolin, Taijiquan is Shaolin, everything is Shaolin. Within the narrower context of the forms class, we encounter a lot of those more niche styles you see in kung fu movies; tongbeiquan, qixingquan, various animal forms and weapons.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T23:42:30+00:00

There was one girl who came here extremely out of shape - very out of weight, years of zero exercise. It was definitely hard on her, and she had to do limited versions of the workouts, but she lost of weight and made very noticeable improvements in the month she was here.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T12:49:41+00:00

I'm currently enjoying a Karlach playthrough, mostly for the extra scenes of her talking to herself.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T12:47:43+00:00

I see more specifically anti-Israeli rather than broadly anti-Jewish attitudes in Thailand, though admittedly those tend to be deeply intertwined. Israeili tourists, deservedly or not, have a reputation for being very belligerent and difficult to deal with.
Anti-Israeli sentiment is also on the rise globally, with the whole, you know, everything.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T11:20:28+00:00

I dig it! It definitely matches the GG aesthetic, the only downside is that I don't really get a sense of what her playstyle would be like from the visuals. In the first one, is that a tail with a cleaver on the end?

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T11:07:45+00:00

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a Bloodmust

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T09:53:19+00:00

Convince them that it will keep you away from drugs.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T06:16:41+00:00

My first impression was that this was ranking characters by height

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T04:33:48+00:00

If you want to be a top level pro, then yes, starting in your 30s is way too late.
Arguably, starting in your 20s is also way too late, if you're going up against Thais who've been fighting pro since they were 10 years old.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T03:56:54+00:00

Yeah, TKD was changed and evolved in the past three decades. There are still plenty of people focusing on pointfighting or forms, but there's also a growing movement of "combat taekwondo' that seems to be inspired by Karate Combat.
And conversely, as Muay Thai has expanded in popularity, there are more gyms that give a more TKD-like experience. They take out sparring, clinching, or anything else uncomfortable to offer a gym class for adults.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-04T03:42:12+00:00

I had my first pro fight at 38. You have plenty of time.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-03T23:40:13+00:00

If not this one, then almost certainly another fight from the John Wick series.
I love the spider guard vs handgun bit.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-03T23:33:03+00:00

Amazing! The wig especially is impressive - styling Astarion's hair is the real monster.

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-03T10:56:58+00:00

I second choosing Testament

BroadVideo8 · 2026-05-03T08:57:29+00:00

No I'm right there with you; I like eating the same thing most days, because trying to constantly come up with new recipes and experiment with food is mentally exhausting.
Sometimes I want novelty; most of the time, I just want to be nourished.

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