Martial arts myths: which have you believed at one point or another?

[Syn7]

Yeah, but you usually only get to do that once, then you lose all your bestest friends.....

.....and girlfriends.....

.....in the whole wide internets!

Virtual pussy is better than no pussy, I suppose.

I built a roll cage and air shocks for my monitor!!! I won the internetz with that one.

[SPJ]

nice to have more than one choice.

what happens to none of the above

I would vote for none of the above.

The greatest myths for me

1. one move defeats all moves

2. one move counters all moves

3.

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my point is that there are many and many myths

in any culture

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[Scott R. Brown]

nice to have more than one choice.

what happens to none of the above

I would vote for none of the above.

The greatest myths for me

1. one move defeats all moves

2. one move counters all moves

3.

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my point is that there are many and many myths

in any culture

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Actually, the greatest myth is anyone who thinks they are better than ME!!

[Scott R. Brown]

Virtual pussy is better than no pussy, I suppose.

Yeah, but "virtual pu$$y" is the same thing as "virtually no pu$$Y"!

[GoldenBrain]

Actually, the greatest myth is anyone who thinks they are better than ME!!

Allow me to introduce myself... My real name is greatest myth.

[Scott R. Brown]

Allow me to introduce myself... My real name is greatest myth.

Aren't you the one with so many belts, but none to keep his pants up, and uses suspenders or coveralls, cuz everyone knows farmers wear suspenders and coveralls?

There, myth dispelled!

See how easy it is for a real geniusist to dispel false mythallergies?

[Syn7]

Well, if you had just 5 or 10 more years of experience and started at age 3 instead of age 5, THEN you might understand a westerner who has only trained since he was 33 and read a lot of books, and whose master learned MA while in the military stationed in Guam in the 70's.

Clearly you are just gifted. Stop giving us regular folk so much hope.

[Syn7]

Aren't you the one with so many belts, but none to keep his pants up, and uses suspenders or coveralls, cuz everyone knows farmers wear suspenders and coveralls?

There, myth dispelled!

See how easy it is for a real geniusist to dispel false mythallergies?

I have "mork" suspenders. Yeah I know, dated!

[GoldenBrain]

Aren't you the one with so many belts, but none to keep his pants up, and uses suspenders or coveralls, cuz everyone knows farmers wear suspenders and coveralls?

There, myth dispelled!

See how easy it is for a real geniusist to dispel false mythallergies?

I stand in awe at your austentationistastic magnanamitude, wait let me grab my pants, now I stand in awe.

[YouKnowWho]

Sometime I find certain "Which of the following did you used to believe?" pulling are very interest. The person doesn't believe in himself to start with.

A weight lifting guy may pull the following questions:

- strength doesn't matter.
- big muscles make you slow and/or inflexible.

An internal guy may pull the following questions:

- strength does matter.
- sport is good.

A MMA guy may pull the following questions:

- TCMA is effective.
- My style has everything that I need in combat.

I may pull the following questions:

- If you train Taiji solo form long enough, your body will be “heavy as a mountain” or “light as a feather”.
- Internal is better than external.

[Scott R. Brown]

I have "mork" suspenders. Yeah I know, dated!

You dated mork suspenders??

I stand in awe at your austentationistastic magnanamitude, wait let me grab my pants, now I stand in awe.

I accept your graticisitude, with my usual elocantankerousness!

Be sure to clean all that awe off the bottom of your hippy sandals before you go back into the house!

And remember, standing in awe sets a poor example for the little ones. Teach them to walk AROUND it!

[Punch.HeadButt]

Try throwing it across the room when you read things you disagree with. It's great for your mental health.

Yeah, but you usually only get to do that once, then you lose all your bestest friends.....

.....and girlfriends.....

.....in the whole wide internets

Plus I'll get kicked out of the library!

[GoldenBrain]

Be sure to clean all that awe off the bottom of your hippy sandals before you go back into the house!

Hey, how did you know I'm wearing hippy sandals? Are you the one in that black helicopter that keeps circling over my house?

[Scott R. Brown]

Hey, how did you know I'm wearing hippy sandals? Are you the one in that black helicopter that keeps circling over my house?

I can smell a hippy 30 feet away!

They smell like Victory!!!!!

Or, am I thinking of something else!

[Vash]

I chose the 3rd one and still believe it too. I still have not found any new western methods that can help me to develop "head lock" and "leg twist" as effective as the old Asian method yet.

Would you be willing to post the exercises for these?

I'm a big fan of 'general' weight training for strength, power, hypertrophy, but skill-specific attribute development has always been over my head.