Kel_Grym

Ya'll come back now, ya hear?!

 

 

I am also from Texas, and I am disappoint... Y'all need to get back on the saddle!

To be fair, I'm not from the deep southern parts of texas, and I've only rode a horse once in my life.

I'll give it a try though..

You got more spit in yer ear than a hibernating badger thrown into the local wino's face grill!

7/10 He's a friend of mine. I like his art and admire his ability to pump out art faster than I can.

toothy

7/10

You crazy candle wielding fiend.

And yes, the avatar is by Datte.

I'm from Texas and I got nuthin.

Forum games addict

7/10

I remember you.

8/10

I dominate the forums games if you post here regularly you will defiantly notice me

3-7/10

That response was actually for Hovershy XD, you ninja'd me.

4/10

Don't know how famous you are all around, but you're probably famous enough on the fluttershy fanclub.

?/10

I have no clue. You may be someone I recognized but recently changed their name.

Bronies are merely a collective of individuals that have a common interest. Each of these individuals contribute (or don't) to society to varying degrees.

As a collective, sometimes we do charities.

Beyond that, I couldn't say.

Most contributions of the fandom, beside a few charities, are to the fandom itself in the from of fan art-music-etc.

6/10

Famous for being Questioner's stalker.

I do all the time. I work graveyard shift...back in college I stayed up all night to cram for tests and fill out my sketch assignments.

25 sketches in less than 6 hours for figure drawing...oh lawdy. Why did I wait last minute to do that shit?

@,

*Anger diffused by D'aaw*

Yeah, I could always do that...but then again, high schoolers.

Wowza man you're an old dude compared to me.

:okiedokielokie: grr....

But no, seriously, don't go and have a semi-mid-life crisis on us, bro. After all... I'll be there one day and don' wanna have to think about it!

I no worries. If there is any upshot, I think (want to believe) I age slower than other mortals.

I still get mistaken for a 16-18 year old everywhere I go.

Bro I barely get any birthday wishes or presents when my B-Day rolls around. I just don't care about my birthday. It's cool that I'm a year closer to meeting the Grim Reaper, though. I do want to hear his Jamaican accent pretty badly.

I'm turning 27 in two months...That's just three years away from 30.

That's horrific to me.

So I clearly have more than 1 word, but it's not letting me submit my post...halp.

Ha!

Of course I don't care what people think!

My internal dialog: Way to make an impression that you're a strong minded, free thinking individual! No one will think you have insecurities now.

Cynicism? Screw all the Hobbes misanthropy and Lovecraftian rejection of human agency! Thousands of years from now, when we've projected our individual whims across star systems, I'm going to come back to Earth just to spit on both of their graves and tell them they were dead wrong!

:okiedokielokie: Don't you dare spit on Lovecraft's grave...

Cars can be blue too.

Weird band name, but they exist.

@@Steel Accord,

I do stretches and squats sometimes...

*walks away in shame*

My kung fu is weak.

@,

 

Well you can always just leave it open for later. It is a pretty wide ranging topic after all. 

Very much so.

Hmm...do you do any exercise regiments? (I do very little to be frank)

@@Steel Accord,

Learn something new everyday.

Look out world, Krav Magafu is comin your way!

Not sure what else I have to add to discussion.

Martial arts is good for one other thing.

Movies!

Will Krav Maga also go the way of Kung Fu and become more philosophic and spiritual? Certainly it would be interesting if one day the old Rabbi could fulfill the Mr. Miyagi archetype in media.

Lol.

But I really don't see that happening with Krav Maga. It's quick efficient, and uses what works. Nothing really spiritual about it at all.

Kung-Fu was developed by Buddist Monks, so it was always wrapped around a spiritual philosophy. (not saying that it was invented for pragmatic purposes at the time)

Yeah Bruce was certainly a Master if not THE Master for the last century or two. I know "a real fight doesn't have rules" but I personally feel it's important to stress that "no style" is not the same thing as "no technique." One can still be pragmatic when it comes to self defense and still be disciplined. Such thinking leads to the notion that a street brawler will always, always beat any given disciple of the arts. (A trope in fiction I find personally infuriating.)

I can't say I disagree.

Speaking of Shu-Ha-Ri. We were just talking about that in my class. "When writing, you need to learn the rules before you can break them." Which leads back to my personal outlook that my writing ability and martial arts are just two halves of the same whole.

Seems to be true in a lot of disciplines in life.

I'm not the hugest fan of MMA for the same reason Tenzin didn't really like Pro-Bending in Avatar. I feel it devalues the arts by only showing one half of what they are about. Again, strength without wisdom . . . At least official federation tournaments usually stress the lineage and history of the arts they host.

Never saw that episode of Avatar.

One good thing about MMA, I suppose, is that it gets people interested in some of the arts at the very least.

Though personally, I don't find much entertainment value in watching two dudes play grapple with each other for half an hour between kicks and punches. Same reason I never got into watching boxing, because half the time the boxers are locked in a 'hug'.

On the subject of grappling, however, Krav Maga gets a lot of flack for not being in the MMA a whole lot, but there is a reason for that.

Grappling is important for MMA. Krav Maga stresses practical self defense. It's what Israeli soldiers are taught to take down terrorists. The last thing you want to do in a street fight of any kind is get caught up in a ground fight. Reason being, is you don't know who's gonna jump in at any given moment. You don't want to be on the ground, even if your gaining the upper hand. So naturally, Krav Maga doesn't teach grappling as much as it would teach getting out of grapples and getting back on your feet.

Thus its not featured much in MMA, if at all.

Even General Patton's earliest known incarnation wasn't always right. Plus if humanity defined the ultimate worth of everything upon the altar of war, we would not have this show or much expression of art at all. Even if our practices had their roots in war, they clearly have distanced themselves enough from that root to varying degrees as dependent on discipline.

 

I know a few escrima techniques that my first teacher taught me. Very intense style.

I believe Szu Tzu is right as far waging war goes.

Not everything is about war though.

I'm interested in martial arts in part for self defense and the other part, the "art."

Self-defense, Sport, and Internal peace are the main focus's of martial arts. If we are going for practical self defense, I'm actually very partial to Bruce Lee's philosophical take on martial arts.

Lot of people think Jeet Kun Do is a style, but the heart and core of Bruce Lee's martial philosophy is that that there is 'no style'

The problem with 'styles' is they're full of rules. You have to follow them. But real fights don't follow any rules. That being said, what's the point in following rules of a style?

In Karate there is this concept (I just recently learned of it) called Shu Ha Ri.

In Japanese, this concept is known as “Shu-Ha-Ri”.

You must first follow the rules (Shu), then break the rules (Ha), before you have the ability, and necessity, to create the rules (Ri). This is the life cycle of Karate mastery.

-source

Learn the rules, break the rules, recreate the rules. Fill your cup, then empty it.

This goes along a lot with Bruce Lee's philosophy of 'no style' and 'being like water.'

At first glance, it also seems to be the heart of MMA fighting...except the problem with MMA being that its mostly learned for the ring, a place full of 'rules'

MMA was never on Bruce Lee's level.

When it comes to the most pragmatic approach to self defense theory, there is one guy that I really peel my ears open and listen too.

Bae313.

Below is a video he post about why Escrima sucks. (don't worry, he made a following video about why its great)

Guy's an old marine and I thought he was full of crap at first like a lot of people who talk about fighting on youtube, but after listening to him, I had my mind changed. He just made sense.

Not that I would let it stop me from learning Escrima (any self defense knowledge is better than none) and there are merits to learning besides the self defense aspect.