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Incredible russian Martial Arts...

Looks like staged combat. If you notice, the main guy isn't touching his opponents half the time.
 
asmodean said:
Maybe this is an old onem, but I find it hilarious:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=827877829185720919&q=martial+art

But seriously. This can not be for real, can it? Please tell me it's an elaborate joke...
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I'm pretty sure it is no joke.

When I was in college, I had to choreograph a couple martial art fight scenes. I went around campus looking for people who had a base understanding of martial arts safety and technique. I eventually found the Aikido club. The class had a fairly rigid structure and it seemed there was implied consent that no resistance should be given as techniques were performed. The video mirrors what I saw in that class. There is a fine line between no resistance and falling down when some guy points at you.
 
It's quite real, and quite serious. Black Sea resort areas have been overrun by violent youth gangs who get their sadistic kicks by somersaulting on the asses of obese sunbathers.

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Hey! How come the guy's head is in contact with "The Master's" ass? In all the other videos the attackers are deflected before they even make contact. Have we found his weak spot? An Achilles Ass perhaps?
 
The prerequisites for making a bundle on the internet with martial arts.

1) Be fat
2) Have lots of people around you that are willing to fall at your slightest flinch.
3) Have a narrator with a slightly ethnic accent.
4) Be fat.

Nothing against fat people but geez!!! Anyone claiming to be fit should look better than that!!
 
I took Aikido, and it was advisable not to resist if the technique was done correctly. I usually resisted automatically, which allowed me to escape from many poorly executed techniques. Then they'd figure it out and it would hurt.
 
I generally thought that one didn't resist the techniques because it would hurt if you did - not because it wouldn't work.

But yes, this gels with my experience with sword fighting. I try to show my friend Vic a particular technique, and he'd do something fancy and weird and not-covered-in-the-manual and it would totally fail.
 
It looks like he is close to bursting out laughing in a couple of frames though.
 
T'ai Chi said:
Never heard of him.
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He's only the UFC champion... if you've never heard of him, obviously you don't know a whole lot about UFC. So why do you make little jabs at it as if you knew anything about it?
 
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