Phoenix44
Master of Arts
Yeah. I was going to say it's hollywood.
What is the style of "Burn Notice" Weston
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Yeah. I was going to say it's hollywood.
ap Oweyn
Brown Belt
I stand corrected. Though that wasn't really my point anyway. Whatever makes up MCMAP, you wouldn't expect every soldier to have studied it or doubt his veracity as a soldier.
Or you would. I dunno. It was just my impression.
MCMAP didn't exist when I served, so I don't know it. Now it is a requirement. I doubt anyone is going to tell me I'm not a Marine. Unless they want their face lightly tapped with a shovel, that is.
ap Oweyn
Brown Belt
I promise it won't be me.
And thanks for demonstrating my point.
Met up with an old Marine Corps buddy this weekend - hadn't seen him in several decades. He reminded me of the guy who tried to mug us once when we were hiking back from some 'extra duty' digging holes. He had a knife. I had an entrenching tool. We won. Funny, I had forgotten all about that. Shovel-fu, it was.
Franc0
Purple Belt
Thats exactly what he does.
ap Oweyn
Brown Belt
Nice!
Like that hysterical "UFC streetfight" video says: "Do NOT buy a lottery ticket today punk, because you are NOT a lucky man!"
Trying to mug two Marines armed with entrenching tools. That dude just needed to go back to bed and try his life again the next day.
Stuart
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It always amazes me that now anytime a popular show or movie comes out everyone wants to know what "style" it is.
Things might be INFLUENCED by a style, but it is always through the camera lens of what is going to look the coolest on screen. Real fights are fast and sloppy affairs that would NOT look good on screen. While some fights might "look" more realistic (no jumping spinning kicks while three other guys stand around to wait their turn) they are still far from what it would really look like.
Weston also is shown hitting a heavy bag alot just throwing "plain old" boxing punches. Just thought I'd throw that in for kicks and grins.
Things might be INFLUENCED by a style, but it is always through the camera lens of what is going to look the coolest on screen. Real fights are fast and sloppy affairs that would NOT look good on screen. While some fights might "look" more realistic (no jumping spinning kicks while three other guys stand around to wait their turn) they are still far from what it would really look like.
Weston also is shown hitting a heavy bag alot just throwing "plain old" boxing punches. Just thought I'd throw that in for kicks and grins.
Omar B
Senior Master
You are right about street fights being ugly. But then in real life half the cases he goes on would never play out the way they do, it's fiction and stylized reality, take it for what it is right.
celtic_crippler
Senior Master
Thanks Bill...I guess we now know he studies Drunken Kung-Fu.
..ahem...
..anyway
About a year or two ago some gang-bangers tried to jump a marine no longer on active duty walking home from work in Atlanta. They had a shotgun... He had a pocket knife...he killed one, sent another two to the hospital and I believe one or two actually escaped him and ran away. LOL
I love it when these turds try to victimize somebody that knows what they're doing.
..ahem...
..anyway
About a year or two ago some gang-bangers tried to jump a marine no longer on active duty walking home from work in Atlanta. They had a shotgun... He had a pocket knife...he killed one, sent another two to the hospital and I believe one or two actually escaped him and ran away. LOL
I love it when these turds try to victimize somebody that knows what they're doing.