What is it with martial arts and like weird cultural stuff? I'm not there to become an Asian, I was just hoping to learn to beat people up
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Eh. Maybe. I'm very sceptical of it as a street technique, think it's more adapted for the ring
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if I do give up FMA it's down to boxing or an offering from the HEMA school...
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One thing I really like about FMA (which I'm in now), is that it's extremely street oriented
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one big beef I have with Oriental styles as I usually see them done in the US is belt testing
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they have this intricate ranking system whose main function seems to be to enrich instructors
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it's not even a real tradition, it started after World War II as part of the cucking of Japan...
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...and wasn't adopted in non-Japanese styles until even later
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I guess way you spend less time on fighting is to spend more time in ritual and monetary promotion of masters
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