Amusingly, lots of modern MMA people would say this is completely accurate WRT wrestling vs. most "traditional" martial arts.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and
I too lurked on http://bullshido.net
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Oh I've seen it from lots of places beyond that. Youtube videos as well, lol. I'm not coming down on either side of whether it's ACCURATE because I have no idea at all. It just reminds me of it.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and
It is generally accurate but that’s because they’re different products meeting different needs basically
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
So what is the difference in this sense then? What are the needs met by like, Wing Chun kung fu. And for myself I was always more interested in the phenomenon of various "fake" arts with fake lineages, stuff that was more marketing than anything else.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and
Chinese martial arts are a blind spot in my obsessive nerd hype fixation but a lot of them are about cultural preservation and Chinese nationalism. They often practice and train in full contact Sanda alongside it from what I understand
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Replying to @Cybren @dreamingnoctis and
It's also worth noting how recent a lot of 'traditional' martial arts are. Tae Kwon Do was similarly a nationalist project in post war korea. Jigoro Kano founds Judo in the late 19th century partly after reading western books on wrestling, where he adapts the fireman's carry
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Replying to @Cybren @dreamingnoctis and
My understanding is that the lineage of Chinese martial arts has the *least* bullshit in it but there's still a lot of bullshit As in, "Shaolin-style kung fu" is at least a thing that there's historical attestation for earlier than the 19th century
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
There are sources about how the fanciful idea of the "wuxia" is based on a real thing, that there was a tradition of close-quarters combat training developed by people working security for merchant caravans traveling through lawless regions of southern China in the Qing Dynasty
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Lmao. You think the history of wuxia is based on Qing Dynasty stuff? Cute. You’re off by many centuries, but you at least get a thumbs up for effort.
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Yeah I'm aware that Journey to the West etc. exist, thank you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Journey to the West is not wuxia, nor are any of the other four classics. But again,
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Replying to @deathbladeISSTH @arthur_affect and
Why are you here exactly?
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