Biggest Martial Arts Myths Exposed

[ewallace]

- Weight lifting will make you slow.

- 90% of street fights go to the ground.

- Grappling is not practical for the street.


Feel free to add to this list.

[ewallace]

- Xebs will get some. :)

[Water Dragon]

The KungFu Magazine Forum is a Chinese Martial Arts discussion board

[David Jamieson]

4.Trolls serve a useful purpose.

5.Negativity is a Virtue.

6.Spewing juvenile facile tripe is a good and useful thing.

cheers

[David]

-The longer the discussion thread, the more informative it is. :confused:

-It's safe to drink rainwater. :eek:

-Weights make you better at kungfu. :p

-David (I'm more of a fool than a myth)

[Water Dragon]

7. Kung Lek is correct

[ewallace]

Flowers work better than fists.

KF Magazine forum Moderators are not biased.

Living in a fantasy world is safer than reality.

Salut

[David]

#0 NAMAT is the best

[txwingchun]

8. It's not the size that counts it's how you use it.

[ewallace]

Smoking a spliff before you train increases your focus.

[David Jamieson]

KF Magazine forum Moderators are not biased.

Actually, we are biased about what is posted, but not about your styles or methods. We can't be completely non-biased with some of the stuff that gets posted here.

Flames are met with water...so to speak.
Wanna sandbox? Go build one.

cheers

[ewallace]

Just as in pro sports, most people understand that referees are human and are prone to error. Most just ask that they be consistant.

[Nevermind]

-Forms are useless.
-Stance training is useless.
-If someone wants to take you to the ground, there is nothing you can do to stop them.
-No one with fewer than 1,000 fights is qualified to teach you how to fight. (Believe it or not, some idiot said this in an editorial in Black Belt Magazine)

[guohuen]

"Running will always get you out of a tight spot."
"I'll talk my way out of it."
"Just kick em in the nuts."

[GreyMystik]

Royce will choke you out.

TKD is utterly useless in any situation.

You can learn a martial art from video.

because someone is asian, that makes them a better MA.

MA is not about fighting, it's about "peace and love, man" (insert hippy peace sign here)

Shaolin-Do is a legitimate traditional gungfu system (i know i'll get flack here, but hey... it's a myth.. at least in everyone ELSE'S mind besides the SD folks)

the old chinese gungfu masters never lost fights (yeah i'm sure they were BORN undefeated right?)

Emin Boztepe is invincible.

if you are accused of child molestation, you're guilty of it.

if you don't support the US Prez, you're unpatriotic and hate america. this one is kinda like "if you don't support Jackie Chan, you're against gungfu and hate china"

if you train your stances hard enough, you cannot be taken down by a grappler

[Water Dragon]

Royce will choke you out actually IS one of the few truths in MA.

[ewallace]

I'm ashamed GreyMystik is from Texas.

[MasterKiller]

I'm ashamed Texas is part of the union.

I mean, really. What have you done for me, lately?

[Badger]

What are you talking about. The Union is a part of Texas.

[ewallace]

Basic self defense can not be learned in a short amount of time

[ewallace]

I mean, really. What have you done for me, lately?
We haven't decided to add your land to Texas. Isn't that enough?

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

"6.Spewing juvenile facile tripe is a good and useful thing."

**** you. :)

[ewallace]

GDA if you had tits on your back I'd marry you.

[MasterKiller]

We haven't decided to add your land to Texas. Isn't that enough?

Really, that's odd. I thought OU owned Texas. Or is that just with Simms at QB?

[ewallace]

Don't get me started on the Texas ChokeHorns.

[cwheelie]

these black uniforms are slimming

[Cyborg]

Texas is not the ultimate state.

Some things worthwhile come out of California and New York.

[MasterKiller]

Some things worthwhile come out of California and New York
Mexicans and Puerto Ricans?


:D

[Felipe Bido]

The quote in Ewallace's signature was said by Apollo Creed


And BTW, 'Royce would choke you out' is an unmovable truth

[phantom]

All martial artists are humble and never start fights. I have read so many m.a. books and magazines that claim this is the truth, and this actually made me believe this for some time. Unfortunately, experience, as well as a fair amount of news stories, have taught me otherwise. It is yet one of many pieces of evidence that you cannot believe everything that you read.

[ewallace]

Da.mn you Felipe. You are absolutely correct. It was Duke wasn't it?

It's about time to change my sig and avatar anyway.

[Water Dragon]

Myth # 17 - CMA will teach you to beat up multiple attackers. Even if you can't beat up one skilled attacker.

[norther practitioner]

There is only one no nonsense system....

knowing 900 forms lets you call something it is not.

[shaolinboxer]

There is such a thing as a "good fighter".

Martial art is not a spiritual practice.

All martial arts are the same.

There is a huge difference between Japanese and Chinese martial arts that is insurmountable.

Holding 5 hour horse stances are good for you.

[norther practitioner]

My alma mater winning the ncaa mens basketball tournie this year was good for my training.
Sorry to see Texas go down like that guys....lol final fours are hard.

[Xebsball]

Originally posted by ewallace
- Xebs will get some. :)

you saying thats a myth :mad:
EWALLACE I HATE U

you see, you see, somabeatch you made me drop coofee on my badboy white tshirt sombeatch motherfocker, fock u!

[shaolin kungfu]

Calm down xebs, you'll get some.
















It just won't be female.:D

[Xebsball]

HEY I READ THE FOLLOW UP MESSAGES TOO YOU KNOW

Now im gonna have to hate you too Shaolin :mad:
I pizs on your momas face, who-re

[Shuul Vis]

- the martial arts are for learning how to kill and maim people.

[shaolin kungfu]

-ninja's are totally sweet.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

quote:
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Some things worthwhile come out of California and New York
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Mexicans and Puerto Ricans?


lol

[rubthebuddha]

- prana has never hidden in the garage with a dozen big macs

- ewallace didn't vote for nader for the last two elections

- kung lek doesn't use kung fu to hide his real passion -- curling.


d'oh. this is about MA.

um.

er.

- the best techniques will work against any opponent no matter the circumstance.

- the best techniques are so good that they'll work half-assed even when against someone with lesser techniques who practices their butt off and wants to tear you a new one.

- grapplers can't fight standing up

- kung fuers can't fight on the ground

- rich mooney (nuff said)

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

gda's pe nis is quite tiny.

wait ... that's not a myth.

[FatherDog]

Originally posted by GreyMystik
the old chinese gungfu masters never lost fights (yeah i'm sure they were BORN undefeated right?)

Everyone is born undefeated.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

yeah ... owned bi tch. (http://www.raceworx.com/funnypics/owned%20stripped%20car.jpg)

[abobo]

- A rat can learn ninjitsu by mimicking his master from his cage, and then if he ends up in America he can teach it to some turtles once they're all mutated.

[Budokan]

--Rolls will someday have a real fight

--Budokan will someday refer to a republican without using the time-honored phrase "narrow-minded pig f*cker with dangerously simplistic ideas"

--Rice Krispies go "snap, crackle, pop" when you soak 'em in gasoline

--Gunned Down Atrocity will someday stop having sex with dead people

--Ronald McDonald doesn't touch the children off camera\

--The Cubs will win a pennant this year

[Former castleva]

-Martial arts are Asian/eastern. (!!!!!!)
-Royce will choke X out
-Martial arts are geared towards spirituality.
-Kung-fu is more complex than other arts.
-Western boxing (related arts) cannot be considered martial arts.
-KFO is high on martial arts.
-Martial arts cannot be a psychological defense mechanism.

[abobo]

- no pain, no gain
- no pain, gain

- typing in "chi blast" on Google won't give you an alarming number of hits

- being in the military means that one is automatically endowed with super secret hand to hand killing techniques

- using kung fu message boards will make you a better martial artist :confused:

[Former castleva]

-Jump kicks and rather spinning jump (martial art) kicks of Jimmy or Billy Lee do not work against someone built like Abobo (like Abobo)

[ZIM]

-Zen is somehow related to effectiveness in the Martial Arts.

-"Loiniage" is somehow related to effectiveness in Martial arts.

-Wushu is not kung fu

-kung fu is not wushu

-splitting hairs about terminology means you know something.

[GreyMystik]

i was being sarcastic with that statement, of course everyone is born undefeated... it's the few seconds afterwards that we all get spanked ;)

[NorthernMantis]

Originally posted by GreyMystik


if you train your stances hard enough, you cannot be taken down by a grappler

It is possible as I have been able to do so againts some grapplers but it won't make you invincible because I was taken down by someone who didn't now how to grapple ( thank God).

[Royal Dragon]

typing in "chi blast" on Google won't give you an alarming number of hits

Reply]
I typed "Chi Blast" into Google, and got over 15 pages

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=chi+blast&btnG=Google+Search

[neit]

-wearing a red gi is cool
-wearing a red/black gi is cool
-wearing a red/blue gi is cool
-wearing an american flag gi is cool
-patches that say "academic achievement" or "black belt club" are cool
-"kempo" uniforms look sharp and totally non-cheesy

[Budokan]

LOL @ GreyMystik

[Volcano Admim]

You think western cool obviously dont live in a tough neighbourhood. I dont even know why you rich train Royce, you are shame

- my dad is a police officer
- your dad sells tacos
- my granpa is older than your granpa

[Repulsive Monkey]

Eating yellow snow is fine.

[dezhen2001]

RD: found this on one of the sites from your search:
Chi abilities range from the simple Chi Blast, which basically knocks down all the enemies on the screen, to the more complex Counter Combo, which allows for you to execute a combo after blocking an enemy attack and use your Chi to finish them off. Chi attacks can be powered up by various tablets that are scattered about the worlds, each representing an element of nature: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, and Lightning. Picking up a tablet will change Tai's Chi Blast into something relevant to that particular element, with some very good looking and violent results. :D

dawood