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Re: Cultural Appropriation Culture
« Reply #90 on: May 20, 2018, 10:14:02 pm »
I had a Black man from Trinidad teach me karate for 3 years. I can fight too.

My Ukrainian mom taught me judo from almost as soon as I was able to walk.   Tell you what, you get in the gym, train for 5 years, and when you think you're ready for me, go back to the gym and train for 5 more years.  :P   :D

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« Reply #91 on: May 20, 2018, 10:26:46 pm »
My Ukrainian mom taught me judo from almost as soon as I was able to walk.   Tell you what, you get in the gym, train for 5 years, and when you think you're ready for me, go back to the gym and train for 5 more years.  :P   :D

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The style of karate I studied is called Wado Ryu, which translates roughly to school of harmony or school of peace, and is a very old style and one that Sensei Greg went to Japan for a number of years to study before opening his dojo. One of the concepts he used to refer to was , "if someone wants to pick a fight with you, run away. If they can't catch up with you, they are not a worthy opponent to start with". 
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« Reply #92 on: May 20, 2018, 10:38:35 pm »
I am going all-in on cultural appropriation this summer, as I'm going to be wearing Cuban linens to beat the heat.

 Fight me.

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« Reply #93 on: May 20, 2018, 10:52:28 pm »
Mom learned judo at university, and was supposedly very good at it.  She says she was a black belt, although that's pretty meaningless.  Imbued with Heavy Duty Ukrainian Farm Girl size and strength, mom was very formidable according to legend. As for me, I competed for quite a while, and quite successfully.  If I had continued to compete, who knows how far I might have gotten.  The word "harmony" really never appeared in mom's vocabulary, and judo as practiced in my family is pretty **** intense. Lessons I learned tended to focus on ideas like "if you trip somebody in this position, you land with their full body weight, and yours, on their shoulder. It'll **** 'em up."

Sensei Greg

For some reason, that makes me think of "Sensei Rex" from Napoleon Dynamite.  I can't shake it.



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« Reply #94 on: May 20, 2018, 10:54:24 pm »
My Ukrainian mom taught me judo from almost as soon as I was able to walk.   Tell you what, you get in the gym, train for 5 years, and when you think you're ready for me, go back to the gym and train for 5 more years.  :P   :D

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I'll make a long story short but I more or less stumbled into teaching a group of school aged kids Karate basics during a time when I worked in Africa. so I guess we had a portion of traditional Japanese studied by a Black guy, passed on to a Whitey, and then relayed on to some Black people. We just need to find a Black sensei in Japan to complete the circle.

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« Reply #95 on: May 20, 2018, 10:55:28 pm »
My Ukrainian mom taught me judo from almost as soon as I was able to walk.   Tell you what, you get in the gym, train for 5 years, and when you think you're ready for me, go back to the gym and train for 5 more years.  :P   :D

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« Reply #96 on: May 20, 2018, 10:55:48 pm »
YOU ****!

That's right, I'm wearing Cuban linen and drinking Mexican booze!  Whatcha gonna do?

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« Reply #97 on: May 20, 2018, 11:00:23 pm »
Judo is one of the best martial arts.

I took Taekwondo for several years, got fairly high up.  Has it's uses for kicking techniques but has no ground game whatsoever and is full of your typical pre-MMA martial arts hogwash that wasn't tested in real fights but looks cool in movies.

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« Reply #98 on: May 20, 2018, 11:00:35 pm »
Mom learned judo at university, and was supposedly very good at it.  She says she was a black belt, although that's pretty meaningless.  Imbued with Heavy Duty Ukrainian Farm Girl size and strength, mom was very formidable according to legend. As for me, I competed for quite a while, and quite successfully.  If I had continued to compete, who knows how far I might have gotten.  The word "harmony" really never appeared in mom's vocabulary, and judo as practiced in my family is pretty **** intense. Lessons I learned tended to focus on ideas like "if you trip somebody in this position, you land with their full body weight, and yours, on their shoulder. It'll **** 'em up."

For some reason, that makes me think of "Sensei Rex" from Napoleon Dynamite.  I can't shake it.





Sensei Rex wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds before being laughed out of my dojo. I hate the attempts to Americanize karate.

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« Reply #99 on: May 20, 2018, 11:02:42 pm »
Judo is one of the best martial arts.

I took Taekwondo for several years, got fairly high up.  Has it's uses for kicking techniques but has no ground game whatsoever and is full of your typical pre-MMA martial arts hogwash that wasn't tested in real fights but looks cool in movies.

That's because Taikwondo is more or less a dance.

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« Reply #100 on: May 21, 2018, 10:43:47 am »
That's because Taikwondo is more or less a dance.

well not really, a kick to the face isn't a dance, it just emphasizes kicking and little else so it's one-dimensional.  Lots of MMA guys like Edson Barboza (black belt) have Taekwondo backgrounds.

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« Reply #101 on: May 21, 2018, 11:06:26 am »
People know Joe Rogan from being on UFC broadcasts, or from doing stand-up comedy, or News Radio, or maybe from his podcast where he smokes a bunch of chiba-chiba and talks about stuff, but he was also a high level taekwondo competitor when he was young.  The speed and power of these kicks is pretty scary.



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« Reply #102 on: May 21, 2018, 11:07:19 am »
Hey, look at us! Wearing Cuban linen, drinking Mexican booze, and ripping off Asian martial arts!  We're awful people!

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Re: Cultural Appropriation Culture
« Reply #103 on: May 21, 2018, 01:54:30 pm »
Hey, guess what's for lunch?  That's right, HUEVOS RANCHEROS, ****!  Howdya like me now??

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« Reply #104 on: May 21, 2018, 02:09:34 pm »
Hey, guess what's for lunch?  That's right, HUEVOS RANCHEROS, ****!  Howdya like me now??

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Make sure you pronounce the “huevos” correctly, or you may inadvertently say “testicles”.  A Guatemalan lady told me this when I ordered said dish in her restaurant.