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Martial arts: theory and practice
The Seldom Killer:
The Grandmaster is visiting from China so I headed over to Manchester for a seminar. It was really good to meet my teacher's teacher. Genuinely lovely guy and very open and free with his time and knowledge. We didn't do a lot with Qigong as there was a lot of demand from the Wing Chun students. Really impressive to watch the sparing at the end though.
Akima:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_J0iKkrwEE
I think this is rather awesome. Of course I would tend to identify with the massed ranks of volley-firing crossbowmen who ought to be shooting back, but that is a discussion more appropriate to the military history thread.
GarandMarine:
Horse cavalry and Horse archers have proven quite damaging to massed rank ANYTHING. Including crossbowmen and archers.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWINsaEpnw
Cav up!
hedgie:
Still, there's the whole "shoal of fish" idea in play. A single archer, or maybe even a few dozen on horses may do a lot of damage, but are individually more likely to become all corpseified than anyone in the massed ranks, since some other poor fucker is likely to get hit instead.
Dalillama:
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I also did a couple years in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (you couldn't guess right?) which is jokingly referred to as "Semper Fu". Unfortunately I find MCMAP to be extremely lacking in actual hand to hand combat training like the old Lion system, while you can learn some fighting stuff here, it's mostly an excuse for hazing and extremely brutal PT, least in my area.
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The official purpose of the MCMAP and similar unarmed combat training from other branches and armed forces is A) PT and B)Instilling aggression. Actually using it to fight is somewhere around G, because they figure that if you're in a military situation and you're unarmed, you're pretty much fucked anyway.
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