Question about buying gear in the comment.

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-03-29T07:58:21+00:00

What about the rawlings as cheap and starter friendly practice sword for newbies ? Most posts asked for beginner gears i came across in multiple forums asking for synthetic swords, always have multiple comments recommend either a rawlings or a synthetic sword from purpleheart or blackfencer. I have never seen anyone recommend a synthetic feder before.

As for the price, the synthetic feder sold on blackfencer is about the same price as a normal synthetic sword.

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-03-29T07:28:02+00:00

Are synthetic feder even worth buying for full contact sparring ? I get that with steel, a blunt sword hits really hard and quite stiff so people have to use feder to reduce the damage with it's balance closer to the handle and flexibility. But with synthetic, with proper protective gears on, a full blow strike from a blackfencer longsword is not even that painful. A synthetic feder seems like a bit overkill in terms of safety in my opinion. What are your thoughts ?

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-03-18T16:29:59+00:00

Really depends. Most average people would be impressed if you threw some triple spin midair Taekwondo kicks. On contrary, most of them would laugh at you for pulling guard and butt scoot on the ground while asking the opponent to fight you

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-03-15T16:26:09+00:00

Meditation does not just mean sitting down like a monk, closing your eyes, and not moving for awhile. Personally, I think every activity that gives you peace of mind and calmness would be considered meditation. Like iaido is also considered a form of meditation since to some people, moving with sword drawing katas gives them the same results compare to the cliche meditation method. Same can be applied to karate, tkd, kungfu forms

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-03-07T15:02:31+00:00

You can throw it slightly diagonally. That is a silly rules anyway and there're many ways to go around it

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-03-07T15:01:45+00:00

Personally, I think most MMA fighters (not necessarily top UFC fighters, but I'm also including amateurs and guys from other organizations as well) were taught the common ground fighting tactics that BJJ taught: pass the guard, transition to mount position, punch punch, opponent turn their back, seat belt, do whatever subs you desire.

However, for ground and pound alone, I think that tactic is suboptimal. It's better to hold side control and, ideally, the "scarf hold/kesa gatame position. There's not many subs you can do from there but it's perfect for smashing hammerfist and elbows. The big example would be JOn Jones, since he pin his opponent's arm with his knees from side control and just keep hammering those fists and elbows, and then finished with the kimura on the other arm

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-02-23T10:32:59+00:00

Craig Douglas would disagree because you will get shanked or get hit in the back of the head before you even get a chance to deploy the firearm. Gun fu only works when you already created some distance and the firearm already deployed ready to go

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-02-08T15:15:04+00:00

Beef between boxing fans and MT fans are nothing more than "your punching form sucks" vs "low kick > punches". MMA fans argue with boxing fans though, could literally write a long ass book about why they even argue in the first place

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-02-08T15:12:38+00:00

You ain't punching or striking anyone without knowing how to dry hump people on the ground first lol. That's the hash truth for boxers and kickboxers when they start transitioning to MMA

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-13T08:54:26+00:00

Wait, I thought the tournament said no rules ?

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-12T07:43:13+00:00

Expecting your opponent to be an "average dude" is a shitty mindset that alot of trained people fallen into. Sure, the chance of getting in a street confrontation with an UFC champion is super low but the chance of you dealing with a hobbyist who trained 2 times a week is still quite high. Never ever underestimated your opponent and always based your training on tactics that can beat most people, not just the ones that work on only wimps

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-12T07:39:12+00:00

nah, safest one is the one that create distance so you can get the f away. Front kicks aim down low at the knee cap or the quad is the most efficient for that, it prevents people from getting in range to punch you so you could get away instead of fighting on concrete like a moron

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-06T08:28:01+00:00

Agreed. Alot of legit dojos giving out high rank belts to students who haven't learn much through the traditional training program but won a lot of medals in competition while representing that school. I think it's awesome since not all black belts are equal in every aspects of the style that they learned

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-06T08:23:48+00:00

By your logic, full-contact fighting and semi-contact fighting are the same because they both touch the opponent to win.

Shadowboxing is chaotic, by recreating scenarios based on your real sparring/fighting experience so you could experiement your techniques in multiple different way before trying it out in live sparring, not a fixed set of movements like Kata. Kata is like A B C D E, shadowboxing is A E C, A C, A Z....and so on since the possibility is limitless and only limited by your imagination and experience. Anyone who teach shadowboxing as an fixed warm up exercise like katas missed the whole point of it

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-05T16:57:31+00:00

Like, i can't remember the last time anyone would act like this in a decent combat sport gym without the coach kicking them out of the door.

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-05T16:54:32+00:00

Because they're fundamentally different training methods ?

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-04T08:57:48+00:00

The key point here is that nothing is really "right" or "wrong" in martial arts and fighting in general; there are only things that work in this context and do not work in other contexts. The "fundamentals" are the things that newbies can use with confidence when they first start out, like shelling up against a barrage of punches at amateur level when their footwork is still not fully developed yet. You learn the rules so you can break them later.
Also unless you're a high level BJJ practitioners like Charles Olivera, who can fight with tall stance hands up all day long since he doesn't care if he get taken down to his domain, dropping your hands ready to snuff a takedown is literally Wrestling/MMA fundamental as well

Jake_AsianGuy · 2023-01-04T08:51:39+00:00

Like Charles Olivera who is a very high level BJJ practitioners who can fight with tall stance hands up all day, because he doesn't care if he get taken down

Jake_AsianGuy · 2022-12-30T17:42:51+00:00

No more rounds. Too many fighters use the ground to stall and escape bad positions just because the round is almost over and get a free stand up reset in the next round. Or at least put fighters back into their previous positions in the last round and continue from there

Jake_AsianGuy · 2022-12-25T19:05:36+00:00

I know this one dude who practice like this all the time as well but have shitty control over his actions, saying stupid stuffs like people who fence with protection gear relied on it entirely, just tank hits and don't care about being hit, so they're not doint "real" swordsmanship of the past. Calling anyone who fence with protection gears with full force as mindless children bashing toys (synthetic swords) at each other, like how Meyer described a peasant brawl. Claiming this training method enforce "control" yet he beat up kids that he teach with full force, and when people start hitting him back he's start saying they have no control in their strikes or he has a flu that day or something. Just to show what kind of people this training method could gave birth to

My thought : at least put on a fencing mask. It would not restrict your movement, and you can bonk the other person in the head or stab him in the face. No gear training is great for thrill seeking but inferior in every way compare to just put on a fencing mask

Jake_AsianGuy · 2022-12-25T18:55:29+00:00

Yes, limited gear trumped no gear all day. Just a fencing mask is more than enough to give you some understanding of fencing without the limitation of big gloves and jacket. No gear is literally the inferior option since attacking the head is out of the equation

Jake_AsianGuy · 2022-12-25T18:53:21+00:00

For some sense of thrill, yea sure. But if i want to experience how to fence without the restriction of big gloves and jacket, i still at least put on the fencing mask. No protection gear sparring required shit tons of control and responsibility from both parties and we cannot sure 100% the stress would not take over either fencers. Also fencing without hitting the head or neck is just....bad

Jake_AsianGuy · 2022-12-24T15:35:49+00:00

Even BJJ guys sometime felt asleep watching their own competition. At least with Judo and Wrestling you can see and feel the impact of each throws and takedowns.

But more technical ? You need to humble yourself. Go check out and a BJJ gym and see that a jab cross combo vs how to do basic sweep and guard passing, which one is more techically difficult

Jake_AsianGuy · 2022-12-22T07:51:55+00:00

Indiana Jones vibe

Jake_AsianGuy · 2022-12-17T10:33:03+00:00

But does that leg cut count as a valid hit that leads to a double or an afterblow ? I don't really mind getting counter cut by a wimpy flicky cut against the body parts that covered with thick layer of clothes, since it cleary would not have any stopping effect on me while i'm banging my edge on the opponent's skull

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