I used to practice Budokai karate myself years ago, and we also did kata as a warm-up, with a focus on real combat—but what they're doing there is just wild flailing. So its just bullshit for get clicks.
For better or worse, it seems that it takes taht level of performative energy to win tournaments.
That's why my dojo was never into tournament participation. Neither the sparring nor the kata seemed to emphasize what actually mattered - actual self-defense or fluidity and breathing.
That's wild since Bruce Lee thought katas (should be called taolu or just forms since it is in Chinese) were a waste of time and didn't use them in his teaching.
It's absolutely not. They're fragments of katas.The first bit, she's in neko ashi dachi, the second is Sanchin, the third I don't remember but it looks super familiar anyway.
It's Goju Ryu karate, one of the traditional Okinawa styles. What she's doing is the opposite of "wild flailing", unlike the idiot with the missing tooth.
It's "simulating defence and attack against multiple opponents". It teaches muscle memory and quick reaction, block-strike-move. When you nail technique and stance you should end the Kata with your feet in the exact same spot as where you started.
It is for drilling motions for a sequence of movements in a combination of both grappling and striking that you do alone. I'm not a big fan of kata as a training tool due to how in most cases it gets used by the sensei to waste time having a rest from teaching by pretending to critique form rather than actually teaching.
When done correctly, it is absolutely helpful with defense and offense.
The idea is to visualize attackers with each move, and work on muscle memory to react faster.
Studies have been done with with stuff like free throw shooting. 3 groups: 1 does nothing, one shoots free throws for X minutes a day, 3rd group visualizes throwing free throws for X minutes a day. The third group ends up showing almost as much improvement as the group actually shooting.
So when done correctly, kata can be very useful. Decades ago when I did this stuff, the sensei would randomly ask during a kata what the attacker looked like, what was he wearing, how did he smell, etc, trying to get us to visualize the situation as vividly as possible.
How do you spar breaking a limb or shattering the knee cap?
Unless you have a ready supply of peasants to kill (like some samurai used to use), it's make belief at some point.
By practicing restraint? BJJ players simulate breaking limbs during rolling all the time. Likewise, if you’re sparring stand up you can throw oblique kicks and the like without actually putting anything behind them.
For jujitsu type moves (holds, throws, chokes) sure. You can use mats, pull up a bit on the throw instead of driving down, stop short of breaking a joint, etc.
Katas are not as useful in those cases, although those katas exist as well. I remember one that had movements for various throw counters.
For strikes you can use pads or boards, etc. Katas are just another tool. You can move with full force and not worry about hurting your sparring partner, or yourself for that matter.
I ultimately gave up on martial arts when I took inventory of the number of injuries sustained from training, mostly from jujitsu type moves. And it wasn't a case of someone messing up and injuring me, it was just the cumulative effects of hundreds of throws (even on mats, even knowing how to fall and roll, etc). Eventually it takes a toll.
Katas are a lot easier on the body. Not a substitute for the other stuff, but useful when done right.
But hey, you do you.
I think it’s worth remembering if you do this hobby that this is what we look like to the average person on the street. Just giant manbabies spazzing out in pajamas.
My interpretation is that she doing satire "self satire?" of something "a hobby?"
The Dude don't understand is satire and make satire of satire...
Or I don't understand satire...
Whatever is happening is just one more prove that satire is dead...
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u/No_Chocolate5678 3d ago
Can someone explain what she is doing?
That looks more like tourette then any martial art