Makes sense. I usually just think it’s a perception versus reality thing.

Grappling is a hard sell anyway. Rolling around in pajamas isn’t as glamorous as kicking a ninja with a spinning back kick.

I have to agree with you on pretty much all points. Krav is one of those things that is wildly inconsistent. I have seen the guys who spar. I usually focus my criticism on the guys that do the unrealistic compliant stuff.

I hate to ditto again, but I haven’t done martial arts for self defense for a long time. The first…

Yeah it is. The problem is eventually that gets distilled down to How People Actually Fought With Swords.

I admitted it was mostly a nitpick.

I haven’t watched the whole video yet, but I am taking it that they spar like Karate point fighters, so certain contact end the fight.

As an MMA guy, I see the point of pint sparring in this case to a certain extent. Yes by all means let them go at with no restricting sometimes, but there is one good reason to let…

Capoeira is beautiful to watch. It’s even more beautiful when someone pulls of something against a resisting opponent, but that doesn’t happen a lot.

I find Krav Maga painful to watch. A lot of the demos they put on are just techniques borrowed from other and applied with little understanding of how the technique…

MMA has brought attention to the fact that a fight between two martial artists fighting does not look like a Shaw Brothers film definitively, but the funny thing is how long it took for the general public to catch on.

Most of the techniques in BJJ originate in Judo, as you are most likely aware, and that’s been around…

I know I’m being a little nit picky, and I’m not trying to bash the guys making the effort to try to reconstruct this stuff.

It’s really awesome, but when we say this is how people actually fought, there should be a disclaimer that says “This is how we think people fought, based on historical research and experiments…

I train BJJ and I don’t believe it’s a slap in the face to anything. Helio Gracie had sexist ideas, but just because I train BJJ does not mean I have to follow every single thing he believed.

3 seconds of google and it turns out David Marquez has admitting to using google sketchup in his work. He even states in his reply in the link below that his work is mostly digital.

It is possible to work out something digitally, print it and then lightbox it onto Bristol. Totally in the realm of possibility.

I…

The artist is using some amount of CG to enhance his work. Look at Iron Man’s left arm on the cover. All the exposed machinery is pretty obviously computer generated.

This isn’t really new. Some artists have been using programs like Poser and Daz3d to generate figure for years and sketchup for backgrounds. Some go all…

That’s funny, I’ve never really encountered too many MMA fans that are into it so they can talk sports. Oh well, experiences vary.

As an MMA fan, there are a lot of bandwagon jumpers right now. The first UFC was in 1993, and MMA didn’t really start getting popular until the last decade. So a lot of the fans are new and…

He started the EPA and desegregated schools. That makes him a certified communist by today’s standards.

Looking into Cheney’s eyes will lower the bar as to what you see as good.

The graphics look okay, but the way they incorporated all the jedi stuff into the game looks like garbage.

It seem like the developers couldn’t take the time to make characters with lightsabers do anything other than run at people and swing wildly. The animations, except for the saber clashes, don’t really seem to…

Came to say this. BJJ is great exercise, but it’s relativity low impact. I’ll still be roiling at 50.

Plus, y’know it works real good.

You get C class for noticing the box but ignoring it after a few seconds. You get the D for not thinking the goddamn Wolf in bodyarmor with a knife strapped to its side was suspicious.

Jesus, this question was answered decades ago. Boxers can not take grapplers. End of story.

Speculation and hyperbole about the power and precision of a boxers punches mean nothing. We have history to look at, and boxers always lose. Always.

Polished punching doesn’t really matter. Go watch Randy Couture vs James Toney. Toney hits way harder than Mayweather ever will.

Yes, Ronda does have a habit of running into punches, but that’s because she rushes into clinches to set up throws. Things would be different with Mayweather. She’s already said she would get…

She has beaten dudes.

Oh god, every time someone brings this up, someone brings up some sort of unproven speculation about how men are just too strong to be beaten.

Why is that?

Dude, Ronda has already grappled against trained male grapplers and won. Mayweather stands no chance. Get rid of your speculation and look up some facts.