Well, if you actually had any ability in reading comprehension you would note that I didn't say 'average woman' I said women - which includes those that are *not* average. I study Kung Fu with some seriously dangerous ladies, and I've also met women that are like friggin' amazons - they're around 6'4" and weigh like 240 lbs. of pure muscle & could overpower a lot of guys without breaking a sweat. Perhaps the next time you attempt to insult someone you should pay more attention.
But when making broad statements like I respect women. The only logical thing to do is look at the average. So it's still not a contradiction.
If Venus Williams was going to fight you... I'd GTFO
I'd be afraid of what I'd have done to provoke Venus into a fight with me in the first place.
In other news, my e-penor is thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis biiiiiiiiiiig! I may not have any belts but I can do flips! Huh!? Huh!?!?
Well, since you guys are talking about TKD...let me be the first (but undoubtedly hardly the last) to say that unless you use TKD for what it was originally used for, and that would be knocking people off horses and barefisted kamikaze attacks against soldiers wearing 50lbs of armour, you're not going to do very well against somebody with at least a little fight experience. The movements come from a mile away. And the blocks center around taking the force of strong blows, but most of these, similarly, are useless in the face of most techniques. I also got admonished for blocking high kicks with my arms because they "would break", which is rubbish! Aaaaaand in the course of my studies, I've taken a liking to techniques you'd never use in TKD, partially because they don't go for the pads, partially because they'd be forbidden.
Which is why I would never intend to learn forms past yellow belt so I could enter local tournaments and have fun belting people in their armour pads.
Brazilian jujitsu
Now there's a form that does well in unrestricted martial arts tourneys. Usually combined with Muay Thai, because there's only so many elbows to the face 4000 years of heritage can take.
I agree. TKD is fail. There was this kid who kept asking me to fight him because he had been doing TKD since he was 4 and so we went behind the woodwork building and I ended up beating him until he cried and I'm really nothing special at all.
I would never be game enough to fight someone who knows Brajillian Jujitsu. I saw some brazillian dude do a "flying armbar" on somebody in the UFC. It was scary.
I've seen a friend apply flying armbar in a Judo tourney actually, then, when the guy dropped, somehow got him into a bow-and-arrow hold- because the armbar alone wouldn't be enough to score ippon.
Brazilian jujitsu looks like fun, though I'm not a fan of grappling, though who knows, maybe the time spent with my brother counts for something. That said, I do like TKD. It was from the TKD kicking technique that I learnt to flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy~
Ahhhh darn it, you guys made me waste an hour on youtube. Here's a...I don't know what to call this.
A modern take on taekwondo? Why is it that all the TKD videos on youtube seem to be either sub-par or thought of as sup-par? I don't know what the reference standard is but compared to the instructors at, say, my uni gym, (and myself) this guy's moving in slooooooooooow motion.
I agree. TKD is fail. There was this kid who kept asking me to fight him because he had been doing TKD since he was 4 and so we went behind the woodwork building and I ended up beating him until he cried and I'm really nothing special at all.
TKD is for show, I do muay thai. Though Currently I am out for a 3 weeks due to a bone bruise. GOd tose elbows are painful..
Now there's a form that does well in unrestricted martial arts tourneys. Usually combined with Muay Thai, because there's only so many elbows to the face 4000 years of heritage can take.
1 sinking python will kill you. if not knock you out.
in the wise words of ghandi: "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". fighting back would only result in guilt, regret, and likely more fighting later. i would try to calm her down, or just give her a hug. unexpected affection has solved similar situations many a time.
