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So I just read chapter 64 onwards and thr joint fight between him and kotaroro and the old man seem to hold their own but whrn we get to chapter 70-80 thr world martial arts tournament between negi snd takshara shows he was struggling a lot to point hr got beaten uo though he eventually won Questions is why he struggling against takahars as opposed the old man in chapter 60 were he and kotoro fought together to take him down

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Hey all I was just curious on your thoughts about this, but do you guys think Daphne and Fred will ever be added? For me Daphne is not only my fav Scooby Doo character but also WB and I feel she already has a move set becuase she knows martial arts, and Fred has his traps so they both already have a move set basically. I think they most definitely will just becuase Scooby doo is HUGE and it would be weird if they didn’t add all 5. Also I know this games characters are decided based on fan popularity but in Almost every wish list I always see either Daphne or Fred.

Hooper isn’t only some strong meathead, he is one of the most athletic guys in all of strongman. His pound for pound strength is insane. The man can press well over 400lbs overhead while weighing less than 340lbs and not a single person on earth can outrun him with 1000lbs on his shoulders. He also has dabbled in the world of martial arts. Prior to competing in strongman he ran marathons and competed in bodybuilding. Overall, Mitch is one of the most well rounded and fittest athletes in strongman while at the same time boasting elite levels of static strength and unmatched technical mastery at everything he tries his hand at. Seeing how well other strongmen have done so far, how far do you guys think Mitch could make it?

I remember back in high school I took a few business classes & to tell the truth, I wouldn't say at the time I was super big into entrepreneurship, I just knew those classes would be useful one day. (And they were!)

During my senior year, I started my entrepreneur journey, teaching kickboxing after school for $15/30 minutes

It was a cool little hustle but it wasn't until I got out of high school that I realized how I could really make a living from this shit.

Then reality hit me, martial arts teaches us self-sufficiency & how to become masters of resources.

We learn martial arts to become sufficient in being able to defend ourselves and we become masters of resources by learning how to use our environment to defend ourselves as well.

Business is the same exact thing! You become an entrepreneur to make money & support yourself; making you self-sufficient.

You also end up becoming a master of resources because you learn how to use what's available to you to make some form of income to stay self-sufficient.

When I started putting all these connections together, I realized to be a dedicated martial artist is to turn yourself into a business.

It's mandatory. If you want to dedicate your life to something, it only makes sense to monetize the lifestyle you wish to live.

In this dream, the coolest and most unexpected of things happened. During a solar eclipse, the people around were transformed into monsters with pieces of wood or steel protruding from their bodies called Darksiders. And I, as a human named Jett, didn’t just become part of the land—I became the land itself. Though I still have a corporeal body, the ground underneath my boots had became my actual body. With it, the land itself answers to me now. A teenage girl was fleeing for her life from 3 Darksiders, and with my new command over the land I stunned them by making the soil ensnare their legs. One of them jumped at the girl, and I controlled the land beneath her before I made it work like an escalator and brought her to safety. I controlled the land around her and then shaped the soil into a shelter for protecting her. She looked dumbfounded by this, having never seen the land do this before. Now that she’s safe, I focused on the Darksiders and fought them. Because of my memories of taking martial arts classes, I was able to not only use the land itself to my advantage but also my body too. I held my own against them, eventually taking them down. Lowering my pointer finger, I made the soil beneath them cave in. Then I opened my hand to cause spikes to appear at the bottom of the chasm I created, which impaled them. Lastly, I closed my fist to seal the chasm’s walls around them and crushed them like cockroaches. After defeating them, I dusted off my hands. The girl from before came back to me. And she saw me. I looked like a teenage boy. “Who are you?” she asked me. I spoke with a thick Australian accent. “The land you’re standing on,” I responded, “well, now I am anyway.” She couldn’t believe her ears. I had been the very ground she was standing on this whole time. “If you really wanna know, my name is Jett,” I told her, “and you are……?” She looked into my hazel eyes with her green eyes. “Kris,” she replied. “Kris, you’ll have to stick with me if ya wanna survive,” I told her. I looked at her, knowing well she had nowhere else to go. She agreed to stick with me. And I had later found out that Kris is an expert botanist for just a 17 year old. My control over the land also comes with being able to sense what’s happening on it. Suddenly, my hand started shriveling up, and I immediately began looking for the source with Kris. It took us to a plant in the ground that was draining nutrients from me. She gave me fertilizer, and to my surprise it was something that I loved now that I was the land itself. It lasted me until I got closer. And with my power of the land, I uprooted the plant. Turns out it was also a Darksider. It grabbed the three Darksiders from before and drained the dark essence from them. The power of the land is no good against the likes of that, so I needed a different plan. “Kris, any ideas?” I asked. Kris popped a container of herbicide and used it. The Darksider flower had ended up getting that herbicide absorbed by its roots and then those roots were now withering away. The Darksider flower was now in a disadvantaged position. Things went so wrong for it that it surrendered on the spot. I knew what kind of plants it had—potatoes. It made me wonder if my power could also be used agriculturally. And when the flower shows the dark essence orb it absorbed, I absorbed it and my powers became stronger. Not only that, I could now speak to the plants that were growing on me, including the flower that almost drained my soil of nutrients. “The more dark essence you absorb, the more powerful you become,” it told me. “Alright,” I replied. The plant life around had already alerted me to the presence of another Darksider, one made of wood. And before he could attack us, I snapped my fingers and then he was instantly impaled by earthen spikes. Kris was caught by surprise, and I had 3 words for the impaled Darksider: “Rest in pieces.” Then I closed my fist and the soil devoured the Darksider, dragging him 50,000 feet underground and killing him. I absorbed the dark essence and then became stronger after. The dream ended there, but I really liked what went on in it though. I never known the power of the land would suit me so well.

The more martial arts focused the better

As the title suggests, what is the trope for an incompetent fighter who thinks that he can do martial arts because he watched Kung-Fu movies for a year but gets his ass kicked whenever they try to fight anyone?

I’m planning my honeymoon with my wife to Japan in the beginning of October. We’re doing 10 days in Japan. Currently we are landing in Tokyo early morning like 5am and will take the train to Kyoto/Osaka and then come back to Tokyo half way and fly out of Tokyo. Little background we really enjoy the cuisine which is why we wanted to do Japan. That probably our top priority. After that would be experience, like anime/martial arts/ history. Shopping is probably our last focus.

Here are some of the Questions I’m struggling with:

1. I want to split the trip into 2 parts. Tokyo and Kyoto/Osaka. How many days should I do in Tokyo? I am in between 5 nights in Tokyo and 5 nights in Kyoto/Osaka or 6/4 respectively. My friend said Tokyo is huge so lot to do there. He did 4 nights and it wasn’t enough so leaning towards 6/4. However because we’ll be jet lagged/tired, not sure how much we can get done the first day after traveling. So the first day won’t count much I guess.

2. Should make Osaka or Kyoto home base? I know it’s a popular question on this sub but some context might help you guys to answer this for me. I definitely want to make a trip to the other city regardless of where I stay. Only think is I hear Kyoto everything closes pretty early like 7-8pm and anything open later than that (bars, restaurants) are more for locals that know someone. Now we’re not looking for to party late night at bars/clubs, but would want to have something to do especially food wise after 7pm. On the other hand, I hear that Kyoto has more to do and is an old historic vibe which we want to experience. My wife also wants to do the harry potter world at universal and I want to do Nada as well. Considering this what would be better to stay at for better logistics. And given what we want to do don’t recommend 4 or 5 nights in this city and the rest in Tokyo.

Thanks in advance.

u/dragonsign asked about my progress in another post. My thoughts were kind of long winded so I figured I’d post something new rather than make a comment.

Hung ga practitioner for about a year. The focus has been mainly on forms and drills.

Overall, I like it and intend to continue learning and practicing.

My background - modern combat sports to a fairly high level. Former amateur fighter and have been striking coach at a couple mma gyms, cornered fighters, etc. so that is the lens I am approaching things from.

Pros- Very traditional elements, which is what I was looking by for. Kung fu culture and fiction has always been one of my interests, so wanted to connect with that a bit more directly, and I feel like I have. And it’s another physical activity I can practice as I age.

Get all the stereotypical kung fu stuff. Forms, various traditional conditioning methods (three star, iron palm, etc), the home made dit da jow. Other aspects of tadtional Chinese medicine such as acupoints, meridians, qi/ging.

I’m not a big believer in any of it, but I enjoy learning it just for the taste of authenticity.

Cons- My criticisms are mostly specific to my particular school, not really about the system as a whole.

The one thing that I think carries over more widely is a sort of delusion about the martial arts that many traditional schools encourage. We should focus on what we are, a cool traditional style with interesting cultural ties and some interesting techniques.

Instead, there is often a bit of denigration of other styles, especially anything modern like kickboxing and grappling. I’m not terribly offended or anything, but it just comes off as uninformed. So, I have to do a bit of tongue biting from time to time.

The future- I’m looking forward to learning more of the traditional techniques and integrating them into my base, making it my own. It’s already been interesting contrasting the body mechanics of Hung Ga with my kickboxing experience, so interested to see what other differences and similarities there are. I’ve been meaning to write up some of these thoughts, perhaps I’ll share in the future.

Definitely looking forward to some weapon training and weapons forms.

Does that exist? How good is it? And how often do you guys do drills or training involving hand to hand combat or knife fighting?

(I'm a Civilian, wanting to hit the infantry soon)

(I'm Italian so there may be some errors)

I'm a young guy, I'm in high school and I practice both bodybuilding and martial arts. I'm writing this because I can't stop, I already ejaculated a little while ago and I wasted a good part of the afternoon (I feel like shit just writing this). I've been trying to quit for a year now, but still nothing. it all started when I was about 11 years old and I remember my friends at that time who were attracted by the videos of girls on tiktok (app that I never had) and they told me about a certain practice that they had seen done by another group of theirs of friends (masturbating); I was only 11 years old, and it didn't appeal to me (luckily). about 1 year passed and I had just turned 12 (probably even younger), when one of our little group showed us "p*rn hub"; everyone was shocked about it, and their hunger for masturbation grew even more, except me. I said openly that I wasn't attracted to it, and they started criticizing me as childish, and so I made that huge mistake... (they literally wanted me to show them while I did it) (they probably weren't good friends) (I think this factor has affected my mind and fetishes over time).

Now it's been several years, and it's been 1 year since I wanted to be able to quit, but I still haven't been able to. during these years I have developed fetishes that I DARE NOT EVEN NAME, which make me feel sick as soon as I finish masturbating.

I also noticed that I never want to have sex with a girl, this is probably also a cause of porn (although I'm not sure).

anyway, I hope that by writing this I can improve (in the last few months I was making some progress but lately I've lost it a bit) and I hope you support me too; I promise that from now on I will never masturbate again.

thank you for reminding this.

Ting from Tony Jaa's Ong Bak vs Ip Man from Donnie Yen's Ip Man. Who would win in a martial arts battle?

This novel... Is a blessing send by the heavens. And I'm not kidding, but I think the author is a Buddha of Writing. That just shows how good it is.

The plot in a nutshell is, a talentless guy gifted with regression, whenever he dies, he returns back in time just after transmigrating in a Xianxia world.

The protagonist... If you want an actual hardworking, extreme willpower, indomitable human spirit type of guy. Then this dude is THE ONE. You want someone defying the heavens? Then this guy is actually defying the heavens at first stage of Cultivation as if bro is a powerhouse trying to become a True Immortal. This guy is a true cultivator, he doesn't need any lifespan pills, cultivation pills, cultivation enhancing items, or anything else. HE ONLY NEEDS KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, AND PURE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT!

You want Er Gen level enlightenment? This novel have a LOT! Like, how did author even pull off 10+ hard and cold enlightenment within 30+ chapter with only just martial arts? This not even include his enlightenments at cultivation journey.

Power system? Martial arts is actually unique, the protagonist and the deuteroprotagonist is actually pioneering it to compare to immortal cultivators. The cultivation is also unique and unlike popping pills, acquiring bloodline, etc. to advance, it has actually many dao philosophies and practices, especially related to constellations since the point of Cultivation is to become like the heavens which is so fitting.

Characters and Plot? This is the only story that can pull off a protagonist who actually cares about his relationships even after continuous regression. Characters also becomes more fleshed out each regression due to unveiling of fate and choices. This story also makes me cry like a baby several times.

Anyways, 10/10, highly recommended.

Tekken has jumped the shark pretty hard not only in terms of mechanics, story and aesthetics but cause we are still dealing with devs that clearly have lost their passion for the series and they are giving us straight garbage treatment

Harada and Murray need to go. Hire people that have a vision for the series and are not treating the community like trash

Reboot the series closer to the T4 visual aesthetic and storytelling

Drop the trash animu-dumb character designs and go back to when Tekken was about martial arts

Have each character feel and play unique where they have obvious pros and cons and dont make everyone unga bunga 50/50 that wall carries

Have online features that are deserved of this time and age and not like we live in 2008 online experience

Hey everyone! I hope you're having a good start to the week!

I love meeting new people and getting to know one another. I really enjoy voice chatting as I feel like it helps me build a better connection with someone. I have been told I have quite a deep, soothing voice too. I actually really enjoy making other people happy too and making someone laugh or smile always makes me smile too.

Physically, I'm 6'1, with short brown/blackish hair, deep blue eyes, fairly broad and keep myself in good shape. Physical attraction is important to me so I'm happy to swap pictures as soon as we start talking.

Ideally I'm hoping to find someone in the North West however, I'm open to talk to anyone from anywhere! I'm open to relocation too.

I'm a big fan of gaming, martial arts, going to the gym, board games and watching films/series on Netflix. If you have any recommendations, I'd love to hear them. I'm always open to new recommendations!

I'm happy to talk about anything at all. No topic is off limit - I'm an open book.

I would describe myself as intelligent, ambitious, passionate, kind, caring and very affectionate with good communication skills. I love making my partner feel loved, safe, wanted and cared for. Just making them happy would be my number one priority. In the bedroom, I'd definitely describe myself as dominant and I enjoy taking charge and being in control, but again, making sure my partner feels cared for too.

What I want most is someone that I can love and care for. Make them feel incredible inside and out, make them smile and just make them so so happy. I have a lot of love to give and just want to give it all to the right person.

If any of this has piqued your interest, please message me!

Hey all, so I’m a beginner in BJJ and wanted to start my journey somewhere that has both quality instructors and equally has great foundational training to establish my base. I live in Cypress, TX so somewhere close to there is ideal. I’m in my 30s and am relatively athletic and I lift weights etc. I have no background in martial arts but would eventually like to do competitions, so I’m also looking for a place that will help train me for that in the future. Also, I don’t want a place that is ego driven, but somewhere that exudes humility combined with highly-skilled people. Lastly, I have young kids so I’d like to find somewhere that invests in the children’s BJJ program. Thanks!

It says Drop Priority (equipped weapons) A-. Does that mean the weapon its attached to will drop more often or can I use my secondary weapon and have it get dropped more often as well? Ft yi

To give a bit more context, I am looking for martial arts that focus more on actual combat like kickboxing, bjj etc and not something like karate which atleast in my experience doesn't really help in an actual street fight though I could be wrong about this.

Also I have noticed that most of the martial arts classes have become glorified HIIT workouts with all the attention to fat burning and next no attention to combat. I am looking for the ones that teach actual combat. Thanks

from my experience and the internet, it seems that in Europe you pay like 350-600eur/y but in the US it's like 150-200$/month!

First is this assumption true, and if yes why?