#How to do martial arts

[inquisitor-apologist]

God I’m just thinking. And ugh, the Jedi’s martial arts must have been amazing. They had seven distinct styles, passed down over a thousand generations, by uncountable lineages.

Every lineage must have had their own katas, their own training methods and distinct variations on the forms. There were probably inter-lineage feuds on what type of sparring they taught, variations on specific katas, which techniques were acceptable in sparring, anything. You KNOW those High Republic Outpost Jedi must have created new styles that were gradually subsumed into the 7 forms.

What would a Jedi Tournament have looked like? Were there ones for specific forms, like Soresu-only competitions? Did they have some kind of point sparring? Was there an endurance/blocking division? How would they have measured Force abilities in a tournament setting? How did they score?

In conclusion, SHOW ME THE SECRET JEDI MARTIAL ARTS LORE LUCASFILM

[koytix]

Can’t stop myself from thinking about these two. Apologies

[lazycranberrydoodles]

woe mundane monopoly headcanons be upon ye

follow for more of modern au hua cheng’s outfits

[astersofthesky]

I will forever hold this part in the second op of Death Note close to my heart.

L and his lil capoeira.

[adriancatrin]

four plus sokka

and the inked sketch cuz i like it

[muninnhuginn]

Thinking about "your weakness is how you always want to be the hero" and how the series returns to this at the end

Li Lianhua hated how he acted as Li Xiangyi and spent years trying to distance himself from it, but ultimately he still fell back into the similar patterns, for all his added experience

His main priority was always to "do the right thing" regardless of how that would impact on those around him. And it *did* impact those around him. From Qiao Wanmian and Shan Gudao as Li Xiangyi to Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng as Li Lianhua

Giving the Styx flower to the emperor so he could use it as leverage to guarantee Fang Duobing and his family's safety. Using the last of his power to save Yun Biqiu. Constantly putting others above himself whilst actively refusing to recognise that his self-sacrificial nature would hurt those he cared about most

And sure, he thinks he's going to die anyway. They're going to be hurt regardless and he can't do anything about that. His odds are low of the Styx flower even working. But ultimately, he refuses to even consider trying. Li Xiangyi has been dead a long time and Li Lianhua is just there to tide things over. What value is the life of a ghost

To the end, he lives and dies a hero. To the end, he refuses to live for himself.

[milkbreadtoast]

SMILING SO HARD THIS SCENE IS SO GOOD IN BOTH KR AND JP... MACARONI COOKIE I LOVE U...🤭🤭🤭😙🫶

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

I find it so funny that the only reason Chase can do martial arts stuff is because Billy is quite talented in martial arts. He was originally not written to do combat with martial arts, just to be the smart one

[sistertinysips]

Do y'all ever think about the fact that Bea was thrown out of her home TWICE??!!

She was sent away from from her family home for being gay

And then Mother Superion threw her out on Duretti's orders even tho she pleaded:

"Mother please... the OCS is my home too"

She was kicked out of her home and family FUCKING TWICE

Do you ever think about that? Do you?

Even her absolute most perfect "best" wasn't enough, not for her parents, not for the church and god. Never acceptable or accepted. NEVER GOOD ENOUGH TO BE KEPT AROUND FOR GOOD

[jojossillywalk]

shoutout to jean-pierre "any sport" polnareff spamming pog in chat when mohammed "old books collector" avdol took him down in the first round and second round like can you imagine doing like fencing, boxing, bjj, wrestling, and Literally Anything Else You Can Manage, with a stand revolving around your martial ability trained for like 10 years, and then you get your ass handed to you by a pyrokinetic personal library building fortune teller playing mental 5D chess who strolls around knowing enough sensitive information to reduce the staff of like 50 municipal city governments to Lawrence The Janitor and The Roaches.

[natjennie]

do NOT message me. I'm busy mourning all of the languages I'll never learn and countries I'll never visit and books I'll never read and foods I'll never eat and art I'll never see and history I'll never know and skills I'll never have and events I'll never be able to go to and people I'll never meet and hobbies I'll never try. btw.

[passumstars]

Try to keep up please

[howtofightwrite]

if someone (who has never been particularly active and is in general on the weaker side of the scale) were to start martial arts or any other sort of combat skill, should they first begin with strengthening their body, and if so is it important that they first start by improving their diet to be healthier or can they just go ahead and start their training without prior preparation?

There's never a bad time to work on improving your diet, or work on improving your overall physical fitness. However, unless your school has actual prerequisites, you don't need to be in good shape to begin learning martial arts.

Physical strength isn't especially important in most martial arts. In the vast majority of cases, if you do try to use brute strength against your foes, you will end up hurting yourself in the process, so almost all martial arts will put a priority on using physics to win your battles rather than just trying to use raw force. That means there isn't a lot of advantage for a martial artist being particularly strong.

What a martial artist does need is physical conditioning. That is to say the stamina and endurance to press on. Many martial arts schools will either include physical exercise to build up conditioning as part of the class, or will expect you to be doing this on your own time.

The other major physical consideration is flexibility. Again, this is something your instructors will teach you, though in my experience, they trust their students to keep up with this in their own time rather than dedicating a portion of the class schedule to your stretches. Failing to maintain flexibility doesn't mean you'll lose a fight, but it does mean you'll suffer once the adrenaline rush wears off, and your brain starts to find out all of the damage you did to your body in the moment.

So, the short answer is, in the vast majority of cases, you don't need a lot of prior preparation to start learning a martial art, though you will probably have some, “homework,” which you'll need to do regularly.

-Starke

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[jonathanssweatercollection]

you still resent nancy and jonathan for getting together???? for “hurting steve’s feelings”??? despite the fact that he verbally supported their relationship like 2 hours after seeing them together. this from a season that released 6 fucking years ago. a season prior to him saying that he was NOT in love with nancy anymore. do you want me to call shawn levy and tell him of your dilemma. bestie do you need to rewatch the source material

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

carlo falcone discovers that he is attracted not only to women

[atypical-insamniac]

should lloyd be allowed to say fuck? all signs point to no (: