Bullsherdog
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In martial arts and fighting sports, the popular stereotype that someone who relies on brute force lacks any skill and precision esp crude techniques like lifting someone above your head and throwing them in front of you or doing a hammer fist on the top of someone's skull. Basically the popular trope esp in movies, comics, and anime/manga is that if you rely on something like a double axe handle, no skill and precision is required while someone really skilled doesn't need any strength because he uses precision techniques like spear thrust to the neck.
This stereotype was so prevalent before the rise of MMA that I seen gyms and dojos in the West at least mock someone for preferring to use simplistic brute attacks like stomp kicks to the stomach used by Leonidas in the well scene at the start of 300.
What brings me this question is the fact in Asia not only are there style relying on crude unrefined attacks as basic staples such as Mongolian wrestling and Muay Thai but even styles we often associate with graceful precision and minimal strength (and actually do) such as Tai Chi and TKD actually do teach brute force simplistic stuff requiring strength like shoving a guy to the ground using just your arm muscles and the strength you have and squeezing their arms so hard it makes someone submit to you out of pain.
So I am curious, is something as "brutish" and strength-based as slamming someone on the ground or knocking a person's head with a double axe handle something that requires some skill, precision, and proper physical mechanics?
This stereotype was so prevalent before the rise of MMA that I seen gyms and dojos in the West at least mock someone for preferring to use simplistic brute attacks like stomp kicks to the stomach used by Leonidas in the well scene at the start of 300.
What brings me this question is the fact in Asia not only are there style relying on crude unrefined attacks as basic staples such as Mongolian wrestling and Muay Thai but even styles we often associate with graceful precision and minimal strength (and actually do) such as Tai Chi and TKD actually do teach brute force simplistic stuff requiring strength like shoving a guy to the ground using just your arm muscles and the strength you have and squeezing their arms so hard it makes someone submit to you out of pain.
So I am curious, is something as "brutish" and strength-based as slamming someone on the ground or knocking a person's head with a double axe handle something that requires some skill, precision, and proper physical mechanics?