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Boxing gloves and boxing rules favor the modern boxing guard, but the long guard isn’t dead in MMA. Chuck Liddell and Lyoto Machida both used a modern interpretation of this long low guard.

It lacks practical utility. Then again, so do high heels and plenty of people wear them anyway. A lot of people don’t build their wardrobes around fist fighting. Hell, I wear a necktie to work everyday and that’d be terrible in a fight.

I can't speak to knee damage from the 9 o'clock or 3 o'clock position as opposed to 6 o'clock specifically...but I did permanent damage to my knee when I landed from a double roundhouse kick (right-left) on my right knee and inadvertently grabbed the floor with my toes pointed to 12 o'clock...

Exactly. It's called "couch to 5k," and it's hugely popular.

But you were posting about style versus style, not intensity versus intensity. If Rafael Aghayev (professional karate athlete) was compared to a 50-year-old office worker or 14-year-old kid who did BJJ two hours per week for fun and fitness, it'd be a night-and-day difference too.

just one opinion, but I think the difference between 1990s taekwondo and modern taekwondo can really be tied to the electronic hogu. And I can relate it to something I've seen in fencing. In saber, where you need a judge to recognize that you got the touch in most situations, saberists are very...

Pressure testing your abilities in your sport, and pressure testing your style versus other styles in multi-style competition, are two entirely different issues. And this thread, I thought, was about sport styles where athletes pressure test their abilities in sport, versus noon-sport styles...

From a spectator enjoyment perspective, I'd rather watch Glory kickboxing then either, because I personally don't enjoy watching wrestling or a ground game, and I kickboxing has a more exciting stand-up game in my opinion. If the only two choices are Sanda or MMA, I'll watch Sanda.

I'm not sure if they're TKD or TSD, but either way, sport competition is pretty darned common in the Korean arts, including WT TKD being in the NCAA and Olympics. Holding up a photograph of TKD and TSD as an example of people who don't engage in competitive sports is an odd choice. You seem to...

The "get off my lawn" tone is strong with Bill Superfoot Wallace in the original post's video. Do I agree with what he says? No. I think the Gracies were conscious about portraying BJJ in a good light, but I don't think anything was rigged. Am I going to rage about what an awful person...

They just released "episode 2" with three more fights. Better fights this time in my opinion, especially the third, which almost had an old-school PKA-karate feel to it. Also featured Josh Quayhagen in fight number 2, and I've always enjoyed watching him fight.

I think of the straight-punch blitz and the reverse-punch sniper both as classic Stotokan sparring styles (think Vitor Belfort for the former, Lyoto Machida being the latter). I kinda associate Goju more with infighting, but I can't even articulate where that association comes from, and don't...

But other leagues would stretcher someone and provide continuing medical attention to someone whose body is so very visibly shutting down, instead of standing him up repeatedly and having him walk out of a pit on legs that aren't moving remotely correctly.

A subsequent tweet stated that it was diagnosed as rhabdo (not a brain injury as I thought) and he's going to be fine...but I thought I was watching someone dying from a brain bleed. I didn't like watching it and I didn't like how it was handled.

Yes and no. "Japan Karate Association" is a Shotokan organization, so if it's a JKA tournament, there won't be Goju folks. "World Karate Federation" has karate folks from multiple styles, so if it's a WKF tournament, you'll have both Shotokan and Goju and more styles; it's a sport organization...

The sci-fi theater stuff is probably the dumbest thing I've ever seen in a combat sports competition. Literally cheesier than Stargate Atlantis. Somebody needs to start telling Bas Rutten "no." The fights were...not bad. The second was really enjoyable to me because it felt so much like a...

I think it's pure pragmatism. Likewise, some Tang Soo Do schools in the USA call themselves "Korean karate" or just "karate" because of name recognition.

That's awesome! Nice car. Personally, I have no time, interest, or ability to rebuild a 30-year-old car in my driveway, nor do I want to drive my kids around in a car with 30-year-old safety standards. So a different situation.

The market is FULL of three-year-old luxury cars. Probably the majority of new luxury cars are leased, not purchased, and a lease is traditionally three years, which means that there are a TON of three-year-old cars on the market. Saying "I won't buy used because maybe there was a dead body in...

Other message boards are saying the same thing. And a 2-3 year old Audi A4 checks all the boxes of what I'm looking for (from handling to interior materials to reasonable fuel economy even with Quattro), it's easy to find used in good condition for $30k, and has superb Consumer Reports ratings.

I currently drive a Civic Si, and I'm looking for a step up in refinement, not a step down like from the Civic to the Fit. Unfortunately Ford is no longer selling the Focus in the USA, as part of their "SUVs and trucks and Mustangs only" move. I also am a little suspicious of Ford interior...

I took his comments as "consider wearing a face shield in addition to your mask" instead of "stop wearing your mask." Masks are better at catching droplets you're expelling, so an asymptomatic person doesn't infect other people. Face shields are better at protecting you from droplets floating...

Hey all, the Civic Si that I've been driving for ten years is getting long in the tooth and not holding together particularly well anymore. Next year for my birthday I'm gonna get myself a new car. I'm looking for a C-segment car (compact by US terminology, midsize by UK terminology). I want...

I work with (not in) law enforcement. I am a big supporter of law enforcement. I'm am glad that Chauvin is facing murder charges and the other three officers are facing criminal charges as well. This is horrifying misconduct. One police chief near to me told a reporter he not only expected his...

I'm fully supportive of competitions being an encouraged-but-optional part of an art. I've trained in arts that encourage competition, and those that don't have competition, and I personally like the intensity of training that competition can promote. For context, I'm part of the Chuck Norris...

When I fenced, we used a tennis ball hanging from a string in exactly this way.

Asia isn't monolithic. The JKA Shotokan scene in Japan and the Xingyiquan scene in China are not going to be anything alike in terms of training environment.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what you get when you start your day with tea instead of coffee

There are various analyses of the civilian cost of the Battle of Okinawa. Given the total destruction and various methods of estimating, as well as differing ways of classifying who is a combatant in that sort of hellish warfare, there is a wide range of estimates. Japan would not have...

It was most of the way through development when Germany surrendered. It was developed for use against either. As for its use atheist Japan, setting aside whatever peoples' personal motivations were, given our tactics and technology of the time, a ground invasion of Japan would have killed even...