Was Oyama fake?

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Yeah, but at least it won’t be too bad, all things considered...

I won’t see or hear them coming, because they’re ninjas

I won’t be screaming in pain, because again, they’re ninjas

They’ll just cut my throat in the night. Or poison dart me in the neck. I’ll be walking around minding my own business, then everything will just quickly fade to black. Maybe a little pinch or mosquito bite feeling beforehand, but that’s about it.

Well, an Ashida Kim Disciple will probably use the Poison Hand Technique.

Tomorrow, I will get my son to start studying the Wuxi Finger Hold! You shall be avenged my friend........Sha-Doosh!
 

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Pffft. Killing bulls is easy. I dropped this one last week with a backfist..

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....with my eyes closed.

But I heard it wasn't exactly a bull Oyama killed. Heard it was a dog with a really cool Lodge Hat. And he didn't really kill him, jut sent him to his room.

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There's a difference between being fake and being overhyped.

For example some say Bruce lee is fake because he was a movie star and some say he's a god who could never be touched by anyone.

Was Bruce lee fake? No
Was Bruce lee overhyped yes
 

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Pffft. Killing bulls is easy. I dropped this one last week with a backfist..

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....with my eyes closed.

But I heard it wasn't exactly a bull Oyama killed. Heard it was a dog with a really cool Lodge Hat. And he didn't really kill him, jut sent him to his room.

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Oh, Yeah......But can you kill goats by staring at them?

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Oh, Yeah......But can you kill goats by staring at them?

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Well, yeah, of course. You just have to know how to look at them...

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Edit: No goats were harmed in the making of this post.
 
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There's a difference between being fake and being overhyped.

For example some say Bruce lee is fake because he was a movie star and some say he's a god who could never be touched by anyone.

Was Bruce lee fake? No
Was Bruce lee overhyped yes
Yeah, but Bruce Lee never stated he could perform something he couldn't. (for as far as I know)
Just to clear things up I like Oyama and to be honest don't like the guys from the videos lol.
 

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Yeah, but Bruce Lee never stated he could perform something he couldn't. (for as far as I know)
Just to clear things up I like Oyama and to be honest don't like the guys from the videos lol.
No but hundreds of people completely overrate him and frankly It surprise me if he did lee was known to be very arrogant
 
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No but hundreds of people completely overrate him and frankly It surprise me if he did lee was known to be very arrogant
Yeah true, but this here is not about how overhyped Bruce Lee was... and I don't really know about arrogant, he is always portrait arrogant but if that's the case I don't know, because there's a difference between being confident and arrogant HeadHuntaaaa.
 

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Yeah true, but this here is not about how overhyped Bruce Lee was... and I don't really know about arrogant, he is always portrait arrogant but if that's the case I don't know, because there's a difference between being confident and arrogant HeadHuntaaaa.
No plenty of people who knew him called him arrogant as well
 

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The guy scruffed a cow?


Not that uncommon.
 

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No but hundreds of people completely overrate him and frankly It surprise me if he did lee was known to be very arrogant
Interestingly enough -- I've recently learned that a few of my friends did know Bruce Lee, and they don't describe him as arrogant. Now, that may have changed with time, it may have been the people involved... They certainly have described him as driven, and training nearly constantly, obsessively.

As to Oyama... don't know. I've heard the stories. Haven't watched this video, been busy. Wouldn't be at all surprised if the stories grew in the telling -- whether by Oyama or his students.
 
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I’ve seen that one so many times and I keep asking myself the same exact thing, word for word. Only I don’t censor myself. It never gets old. You can’t intentionally make something that comical.
Yeah, nothing Master Ken has done has been as good as that, and he's really good at it.
 

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Pffft. Killing bulls is easy. I dropped this one last week with a backfist..

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....with my eyes closed.

But I heard it wasn't exactly a bull Oyama killed. Heard it was a dog with a really cool Lodge Hat. And he didn't really kill him, jut sent him to his room.

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That's like the opposite of a Chuck Norris joke.
 

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In Queensland for fun you get drunk and try to wrestle cows to the grounds.

It is one of the games played at a rodeo.
I’ve caught myself watching rodeo on tv here. Something about asking myself why allegedly grown men love playing with barnyard animals and all.

There’s an event where they’re on a horse and chasing a calf. They dive onto the calf and wrestle it to the ground. There’s also one where they lasso the a calf, jump down and tie the calf’s feet up.

Some odd stuff goes on in the south. All sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. And Wrangler jeans.
 

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There’s an event where they’re on a horse and chasing a calf. They dive onto the calf and wrestle it to the ground. There’s also one where they lasso the a calf, jump down and tie the calf’s feet up.

Well all that has real world application in cattle ranching.

Now Angola Prison Rodeo where they put a ribbon on a badarse bulls horn and whatever inmate can get the ribbon off wins money.......is just for fun......

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Well all that has real world application in cattle ranching.

Now Angola Prison Rodeo where they put a ribbon on a badarse bulls horn and whatever inmate can get the ribbon off wins money.......is just for fun......

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Reminds me of John Travolta getting all impressed when watching the inmates at the rodeo in Urban Cowboy.

And yeah, rodeo is like Cowboy Olympics. The Greeks took aspects of combat and made competitive games. Rodeo essentially does the same thing.
 
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