Martial Art Urban Legends...

[Chronuss]

Back on Topic (I love Urban Legends.)
1. Crushed testicles cause shock and death!

don't know about the death part, perhaps if they're ruptured and bleed out...but getting hit there is always a shock.

 

[Jim Tindell]

1. "Dragon Belts" and 14th-degree black belts.
2. Trained martial artists can break anything and everything with their hands and feet. (e.g. Hey karadee kid... didn't you say you could break through this metal door?)
3. The whole "Registering your body as a weapon"... which we actually get asked occasionally.
4. "Who would win?" questions (T'ai Chi vs. Systema or something)
5. Flying kicks through rings of fire for dan testing.
6. You can reach black belt in ____ years guaranteed.
7. Black uniforms are better than white uniforms.
8. Black belts keep nunchakus concealed on them at all times (I've gotten asked before, "Do you carry those things with you wherever you go?")
9. Ripping spine out through the throat (Good luck getting your whole hand through their mouth)
10. Guys are better than girls (We've had 'Women only' classes suggested!)

 

[Marginal]

4. "Who would win?" questions (T'ai Chi vs. Systema or something)
5. Flying kicks through rings of fire for dan testing.
6. You can reach black belt in ____ years guaranteed.
7. Black uniforms are better than white uniforms.

Are those myths or pet peeves?

 

[Chronuss]

7. Black uniforms are better than white uniforms.

I'm more fond of black gi's than white...probably because I looked like the Good Humor man when I wore one for the first and last time.

 

[DRMiller]

Karate was not developed to make people great fighters. That is a mindset of 20th century, Hollywood taught bullies. Neither is Kata practiced for this purpose. Karate was intended for training in self defense to give the common man/woman skills that might protect them from serious injury and preserve their life, not to go out and prove who is the toughest thug on the block.

 

[47MartialMan]

Karate was not developed to make people great fighters. That is a mindset of 20th century, Hollywood taught bullies. Neither is Kata practiced for this purpose. Karate was intended for training in self defense to give the common man/woman skills that might protect them from serious injury and preserve their life, not to go out and prove who is the toughest thug on the block.

I agree.......modern society has the trained thought of combatfighters/fighting, in mind.

 

[MichiganTKD]

Another urban legend that many people probably believe about martial artists:

We have no sense of humor, don't drink, and want to be monks.

Not the ones I know. Granted, we don't get s___faced around each other, but the ones I know like their alcohol. And I've heard and told more than a few good jokes with them, clean and otherwise.

 

[OrangeLeopard]

I can dodge bullets!

 

[Ray]

I can dodge bullets!

I can catch them with my teeth.

 

[FearlessFreep]

I can catch them with my teeth.

I can hear the muscles twitch and dodge before the gun is even fired*





* Yeah, from "Remo Williams"

 

[bignick]

You can dodge bullets huh?

When you're good enough, you won't have to...

 

[47MartialMan]

I have a Dodge that I call Bullet.


I can stop your heart

 

[JKD_Silat]

Dude, I'm bummed! I thought i would learn to:

1) Jump Really high onto roof tops
2) be able do do really cool flips in the air (while still fighting)
3) catch arrows out of mid air
4) Have really cool sound effects when I punck/kick someone
5) become really wise.....

when I reached a certain level of training. (Maybee those are the "Secret Techniques" my master is holding out on me).

 

[47MartialMan]

Don't forget to bare-handly double palm catch a razor-sharp sword

 

[Chronuss]

Don't forget to bare-handly double palm catch a razor-sharp sword

you mean you can't...?

 

[Tgace]

I drop into a full split while in the middle of a fight...

 

[KenpoTess]

I spin like a horizontal top when attacking.. Hence my nick of TessManian Devil

 

[bignick]

Don't forget to bare-handly double palm catch a razor-sharp sword

Actually, my judo/jujutsu instructor use to do this quite a bit during demos. Right up until the point where he got the tip of his pinky sliced off...

 

[47MartialMan]

Actually, my judo/jujutsu instructor use to do this quite a bit during demos. Right up until the point where he got the tip of his pinky sliced off...

Yes, but that was with a rehearsed and trusted accomlice.

 

[Don Roley]

Japanese Martial Arts come from Chinese Martial Arts.