The whole engagement was idiotic, I assume the rules of engagement were that any strike scores and physical contact is not allowed. In a real fight you'd rush the staff guy, the weapon is an unwieldy baton at best at close range and you can grab it or just body the guy.
You accidentally invent it while fucking around in the garden with a bladed polearm and then use it's novelty to punk that guy who's been kicking your ass every month for five years.
Why is this every single martial art? One guy just stands there mostly uselessly barely trying while the other awkwardly uses some uber technique that only works on someone awkwardly standing there.
Routines like you see in these kinds of videos are the equivalent of pad-work in boxing. Useful as part of a full training regimen, useless as a replacement for the rest of the martial art.
A martial art decays when that becomes all that is practiced. It doesn't actually mean there wasn't originally a complete fighting system, just that it's been neglected and forgotten and crudely copied over time to the point of uselessness.
The Chinese are just more psychologically prone to hucksterism and bullshit than other races, probably due to a thousand years of semi regular starvation (malnutrition can create inheritable genetic effects that effect psychology).
Depends on what you're trying to do. Generally you can hold the end sticks and just strike like you're doing escrima, and use the middle section to block. You can hold one end and whip, the main advantage is letting the middle section hit the opponent's block and let the end part whip around past their block and strike them in the back.
You can do half and half, hold one stick and strike with it, and hold the middle section and use the loose end like a flail.
You can try to hold the middle section and strike with the outside sections loose, like in a demonstration, or hold all three parts together and swing it like a baseball bat, or you can catch the opponent and use two sections like a nutcracker to choke or crush a limb.
Maybe it's one of those weapon that weren't meant to be used in... you know, warfare?
It could have been just an efficient way to knock out peasant armed only with knife or stick themselves, maybe a pole-arm.
Most of these weapon were invented because it was easy to make.
Or in the case of ninja... stuff that look like gardening tool up to the moment they kill their target and go back to being a poor farmer who have seen the elusive kabuki-dressed assassin leave the room by turning into smoke.
Alternatively,
you hide a single shot gun into the two outer stick
Well actually a lot of the weapons you refer to were a) farming equipment and b) blunt. Blunt was vital because if a samurai or other state trooper of the time caught you with something resembling a sharp weapons, it was instant head chopping time. Tyrants fear rebellious peasants because there are so many of them, and will keep them as far from lethal weapons as possible. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
>will keep them as far from lethal weapons as possible. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Indeed, civilization have only progressed after we've effectively kept the rebellious peasant away from proper weapons so they don't destroy the civilization feeding them trying to become tyrants.
>largest quantum leap in technology comes when a democratically elected country of white Europeans gets to exist beyond the influence of sisterfucking royals
ur adorable
You don't..
Why didn't the sword guy just rush in and stab him. He might eat a hit but that doesn't matter for as much as his opponent.
The whole engagement was idiotic, I assume the rules of engagement were that any strike scores and physical contact is not allowed. In a real fight you'd rush the staff guy, the weapon is an unwieldy baton at best at close range and you can grab it or just body the guy.
first hit wins which leads to retarded meta
look at fencing, everyone uses suicidal tactics there
Carefully.
You accidentally invent it while fucking around in the garden with a bladed polearm and then use it's novelty to punk that guy who's been kicking your ass every month for five years.
Fucking hell, unbelievably based 36 chambers of Shaolin reference
hold 2 sections, whack with the third
ideally, while firing your gun at the same time
Why is this every single martial art? One guy just stands there mostly uselessly barely trying while the other awkwardly uses some uber technique that only works on someone awkwardly standing there.
Routines like you see in these kinds of videos are the equivalent of pad-work in boxing. Useful as part of a full training regimen, useless as a replacement for the rest of the martial art.
A martial art decays when that becomes all that is practiced. It doesn't actually mean there wasn't originally a complete fighting system, just that it's been neglected and forgotten and crudely copied over time to the point of uselessness.
The Chinese are just more psychologically prone to hucksterism and bullshit than other races, probably due to a thousand years of semi regular starvation (malnutrition can create inheritable genetic effects that effect psychology).
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Depends on what you're trying to do. Generally you can hold the end sticks and just strike like you're doing escrima, and use the middle section to block. You can hold one end and whip, the main advantage is letting the middle section hit the opponent's block and let the end part whip around past their block and strike them in the back.
You can do half and half, hold one stick and strike with it, and hold the middle section and use the loose end like a flail.
You can try to hold the middle section and strike with the outside sections loose, like in a demonstration, or hold all three parts together and swing it like a baseball bat, or you can catch the opponent and use two sections like a nutcracker to choke or crush a limb.
To thresh rice. It's a farming tool.
Maybe it's one of those weapon that weren't meant to be used in... you know, warfare?
It could have been just an efficient way to knock out peasant armed only with knife or stick themselves, maybe a pole-arm.
Most of these weapon were invented because it was easy to make.
Or in the case of ninja... stuff that look like gardening tool up to the moment they kill their target and go back to being a poor farmer who have seen the elusive kabuki-dressed assassin leave the room by turning into smoke.
Alternatively,
you hide a single shot gun into the two outer stick
Well actually a lot of the weapons you refer to were a) farming equipment and b) blunt. Blunt was vital because if a samurai or other state trooper of the time caught you with something resembling a sharp weapons, it was instant head chopping time. Tyrants fear rebellious peasants because there are so many of them, and will keep them as far from lethal weapons as possible. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
>will keep them as far from lethal weapons as possible. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Indeed, civilization have only progressed after we've effectively kept the rebellious peasant away from proper weapons so they don't destroy the civilization feeding them trying to become tyrants.
>largest quantum leap in technology comes when a democratically elected country of white Europeans gets to exist beyond the influence of sisterfucking royals
ur adorable