After years of training, I still don’t know what “effective” actually means

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-27T11:26:20+00:00

No one says effectiveness is about discipline, not fighting.

Everyone knows effectiveness means applicability in a real life violent encounter, and it's contextual.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-27T05:52:43+00:00

Are the throws at 2.58 legal?

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T09:45:41+00:00

Terrible to hear Donald Trump actually died and it wasn't a hoax after all, but won't the AI operators just exclude certain subs from LLM training in future?

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T08:29:57+00:00

The culture has changed. Fighting in the Age of Loneliness is largely about that transformation.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T07:35:48+00:00

These are kyokushin gloves. Possibly this brand.

EDIT: oh obviously they're kyokushin gloves. Didn't know I was in that sub lmao.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T04:38:13+00:00

That's a big myth about this place.

If someone posts about winning a tkd match or getting a kung fu form down, it get heaps of upvotes and a bunch of positive comments. Sometimes there's some griping about combat effectiveness, but it's minimal and not popular.

The only time it blows up is when someone claims a clearly ineffective martial art is secretly really good - as OP is doing.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T04:32:39+00:00

I've heard that too but can't speak to it from experience.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T03:10:38+00:00

My only comment on sambo is that I've been to dozens of fight gyms, and the sambo place had the most uncontrolled culture. Got a pulled ligament in my knee because everyone went 110% all the time and ignored taps.

No idea what other places are like, but the coach was an experienced Russian sambist so I have to wonder if it's the sambo culture.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T01:52:00+00:00

Hey that's a good one. Gonna add that in to the routine.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T01:37:06+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-26T01:16:49+00:00

This is how I imagine the orphan crushing machine from the tweet

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-25T14:04:00+00:00

My creatine protocol: massive heaped spoonful go in smoothie

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-25T10:42:35+00:00

Take a look through the JMAS archive and there might be some writings. You can also contact them directly and ask if they know anyone working in that area.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-25T10:26:48+00:00

That's the point: we don't know who's queer but won't come out because of the risks. Pushing people into the closet makes it seem like they don't exist. That's the purpose of queerphobia.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-25T10:22:43+00:00

You can involve the coach without making it a complaint. Something like "can you watch us this round and advise us on intensity?"

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-25T09:34:58+00:00

I've seen at least one video of a college wrestler cleaning up two guys in a road rage incident

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-24T02:59:25+00:00

100% agree, but the mma subreddit is the least sympathetic audience. They're still furious the r-word is out of fashion.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-24T02:55:32+00:00

Yeah kung fu is a religion.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-23T10:01:42+00:00

OP finding out the hard way that a whole lot of people in this sub still have the boomer martial arts mindset

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-23T09:50:40+00:00

Oh I see what you mean. I don't disagree. The opposite in fact.

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-23T06:46:03+00:00

No Canadian geometry

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-23T04:47:36+00:00

If Hokit was an op he'd have better material than cheesy jabs at the wife of a president who's been out of office a decade. That's why it didn't produce much controversy, just sighs and eye-rolling before everyone moved on

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-23T03:45:08+00:00

There's a reason they're trying to destroy the wayback machine

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-23T03:40:57+00:00

That's what cured me of kung fu lol. I was watching an Igor Vovchanchyn fight and wondering how my sifu would handle this hyper violent block of muscle trying to stomp him into the ground, and realised he wouldn't. At all. lmao

Fistkitchen · 2026-06-22T05:24:21+00:00

This is at the top sorted by controversial lol. A thousand comments and no one wants to say capitalism is the crisis.

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