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Martial arts: theory and practice
GarandMarine:
No shit? :D
Holy crap. Almost like I spent a significant amount of time in the system, managed the training program and even taught the stuff occasionally! Further it's almost like this thread is about actual martial arts, so while Mcslap is worth mentioning in my experiences, pointing out that it's completely lacking in actual useful hand to hand training is probably relevant.
You're wrong though. As presently instructed A. is sanctioned hazing B. is PT and C is instilling aggression. D. is making hasty excuses for A-C by saying you're training Marines to handle any situation whether you're out in town on liberty or actually in the fight. Actual combat skills is probably somewhere around R. Simply because that's all the levels of administrative bullshit you have to get through.
Akima:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 15 Nov 2014, 21:30 ---Horse cavalry and Horse archers have proven quite damaging to massed rank ANYTHING. Including crossbowmen and archers.
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Yes indeed, but I was speaking of cultural identification rather than commenting on the effectiveness of cavalry or horse archers. Mounted steppe peoples were a constant pressure on China for thousands of years. Sometimes they conquered us (Mongols, Manchu), sometimes we conquered them (Han, Qing), often it went back and forth for centuries. But it is beyond the scope of this thread to discuss the combined arms tactics with which China's armies faced peoples who were, on average, much better horsemen than we were.
I don't know much about MCMAP. I had the impression that it was mainly a grappling-based system, but I just read the Wikipedia article and I'm not so sure. Coloured belts are lame though; It should be enough to receive a grudging nod from your sifu. If you're lucky, and he's feeling generous.
GarandMarine:
It's one of the reasons I prefer the LINE system. No belts. No bullshit. No extraneous crap. It is a highly efficient system for dishing lethal force on an opponent in hand to hand combat. Mcslap has just made us weaker, especially with turning it into a haze fest and removing any potentially useful martial arts training from it. MCMAP itself is one of the many hybrid martial arts styles that can be found out in the world, much like my own primary style, Universal Kempo. MCMAP itself is kinda all over the place, without any real grounding in it's style beyond Japanese karate and I believe Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with an ungodly amount of other things mixed in for flavor, which I happen to think is a good thing. MCMAP has a lot of potential as a program, but with current implementation it will never be successful as a hand to hand training tool.
Akima:
I initially posted in reply to J in the Pointless thread, but it didn't really belong there, so...
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The imbecile in the beige coat is an example of the reason I don't generally tell people that I practice a martial art; idiots want to "try it on". What was he thinking? And however much he deserved it, that head-kick would not qualify as self-defence in Australia, and the soldier (I assume) could find himself in serious trouble. :-(
LeeC:
A video about half swording.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwuQPfvSSlo
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