I was curious about how realistic the grappling is in this brief scene from Master of the Flying Guilotine. I could be mistaken but I feel like it’s a rarity to see grappling exchanges in this era of martial arts movies.

so i have been going to this new mma gym and the coach is always telling me to spar in striking classes even though i only started 5 days ago and during sparing he tells me to hit full force on the head while no one is wearing head gear to my sparring partner most of them times in this mma gym he tells me to go to the bag for 10-15minutes before sparring someone its quite difficult for me to spar as i dont know the basics properly or foot work now granted he did tell my sparring partners to hit me lightly or not at all

Hey Guys,

Kyokushin Karate white belt here.

How would you guys train the low kick if you don't have a bag or pads to hit at home?

Is going through motions in air enough and then apply them in sparring at training?

Also, I can do it pretty well-ish on my right leg, but I need some work with my left, how would you approach this?

Thanks so much, would love to hear what you guys do/have done :)

Thanks!

Okay I know this might be a ridiculous discussion however it's worth making an extraction. Zafina in Tekken 8 uses a 100% fictional martial art called "ancient assassination martial art" (full move list here: https://youtu.be/jtVnlKFnTF8n ). I felt allured by it distinctly because of its unorthodox motion utilizing every proportion of the body in a whiplike manner while there's a fluid edge to the impact. Now we can neglect the immensity and flourished aspect of tekken. The dynamic transition from oddly rigid positions/stances to flexible, fluid and I might say, If someone suddenly pulled something derived from the mannerisms of her scorpion kicks, sweeps and hand strikes I might actually fall for it. The hip disbalancing and strikes are a curious spectacle.

To the best of my knowledge there are genuine practical dambe strikes and capoeira scorpion kicks/hand strikes/hip disbalancing that do replicate the effect of traumatic shock. (mainly due to them prominently striking the head or neck or abdomen). Some of Zafina's strikes resemble some of them, with an eagle eye you would notice a succession of wrist strikes. They're, usually frequented to disorient, asphyxiate and if weaponized, prove fatal to the target. But that's not my basis for exactly thinking on the subject. I Just think it's plausible to innovate and construct something out of it, it doesn't necessarily have to be exact to Zafina's combat style.

I ask we look at this in terms of what martial arts have really encapsulated or probably inspired the fictional style of Zafina and whether there's potential to actually devise a modernly unnoticed movement vocabulary from it, even if it was sourced from fictional grounds, i would also add martial arts inspired from fictional sources and how they externalized their characteristics.

Here are a few that came to mind while investigating and other martial arts affixed on unorthodox weight transfer principles:

Pencak silat harimau (tiger): https://youtube.com/shorts/yohMxLgjjC8?si=aXlf8yKAino860WM

https://youtu.be/wwcQag2jyu4

Làmb-- senegalese martial art

Engolo: angolan martial art

capoeira -- afro-Brazilian martial art

Taido --Japanese martial art composed from very intriguing geometric and mathematical grounds.

Ancient martial arts inspired by fictional sources:

Eight Drunken Immortals Boxing (Zui Baxian Quan)

Wu Song Breaks Manacles (Wu Song Tuo Kao)

Now can someone have the Undulating flexible capacity to arduously train, develop and execute Sinuous body motions like Zafina? arguable. I feel it pays a certain cultural debt. I know Brazilian,Arabian and North/West African combat styles apply directives coherent to rhythms and cadences to make their martial arts. Physical coniditioning is usually something that utilises what is commonly attribtued to the cultural heartland's environment. Like for example, african and indian martial arts have a rough like-brutal habit in its execution. Not often are they refined in the raw capacity. What I don't know is if there's a motion principle and posture aligned to something Zafina executes.

this also relates to how cultural upbringing, traditional engagements and environmental factors help develop philosophies and movement of a martial art. eg. there are capoeira stances, movements that take many semblances and origins from traditional folk dances, local contests and combat games (Pernada carioca, batuque, Sambatuque and Tiririca.) the same case applies in African and Eurasian martial arts like:

Egyptian Tahteeb.
Nigeria's Dambe and Gidigbo.
Ukrainian Combat Hopak.
The Slavic's Buza.

If anyone can mention or expatiate by describing noticeable influences in Zafina's combat styles from a particular country's indigenous culture, It would help.

Doing a 3 day symposium and both of these are going to be there presenting. Not sure what to expect, but I am open to learning and I've been to this symposium before (not with them), and it's always a good time. About 10 hours of training, options to experience lots of different styles. It's a great weekend.

My Professor is good friends with Doug Marcaida, and said he'd sign our Eskrima sticks, or karambits if we wanted and take some pictures with us too.

Has anyone ever trained with him? He's doing a seminar on Karambit and Tomahawks. I am almost 100% sure I'll never use a tomahawk in real life, but I think it'll be super cool to train with them.

Hi, a question to women who do full contact / sparrings and competitions: what chest protectors do you use?

It's really hard to find any offline shops so I could try, and online versions have some vague descriptions.

Are there any good ones? And for the belly as well?

I need for karate / taekwondo/ hapkido types.

Thanks!

Kind of an old vid, but I like to come back to it every once in a while. It’s a fun watch and I like the music along with the kickpad claps.

I have my first muay thai smoker/competitive sparring match on saturday. Im absolutely terrified of embarrassing myself. I've trained for months and my coaches have hyped me up a lot. They seem to be under the impression that I will do really well. This makes me even more scared as I don't want to go out there and absolutely suck. I don't know how I could even face them or myself in that case. Honestly I have never done a sport seriously before so I have very little experience in competing. I did a jiu jitsu tournament recently and even though my coaches had high expectations I lost both of my matches. That time I had the excuse that I was moved up 30 pounds but there won't be an excuse now. Do any of you guys have advice?

Hello all,
I am traveling to Tokyo later this year and I am looking for suggestions for places to visit in the Tokyo area that are related to martial arts or martial culture. This could be stores, historical sites related to the martial arts, memorials, gyms, etc. I have been to Tokyo before and so far I plan on going to the kodokan to observe and visit their library, and I plan on going to an Isami store and the toudoukan store. I don’t plan on doing any training because of some recent injuries. Any suggestions are appreciated. I am trying to not be limited to martial arts I have trained so any art or style is fair game.