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• Nicola Griffith commented on Martial arts and the cycle of bullshit
  Eh, some of them are :) But some, not so much......
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Martial arts and the cycle of bullshit
  What I recall, and "Creative Writing" wasn't around to screw tuition fees out of students, is that the only writing taught was how to answer an essay question in an exam, and that wasn't taught in any detail. It was the only writing kata of those ancient-time school leavers....
• Tricia Sullivan commented on Martial arts and the cycle of bullshit
  Sigh. That is depressing....
• Mark Dennehy commented on Martial arts and the cycle of bullshit
  But there's one set of techniques that you are very good at indeed, and rarely think about or even realise that you know: breakfalls. Glad someone mentioned it, if only because I managed to have all of my teeth broken (either chipped or cracked) by one badly executed breakfall (mainly because the person throwing me was a newbie who got distracted during his first class and he forgot to let go at a crucial point in the throw; conservation of angular momentum is a right pain in the enamel at times). I didn't study aikido for very long -...
• Dirk Bruere commented on Martial arts and the cycle of bullshit
  After years of classical MA training you can stand perfectly on one leg while you put a sock on the other foot....