Western martial arts, something you never see in movies

[Sayvara]

Speaking of bad fights in Star Wars films... I thought I'd show you all a bit about old european martial arts, especially swordfighting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3DhjFUOG6Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwdE3f5fFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YQP6lthpLA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_d98ewZmM

Enjoy.

/S

 

[Alex_P]

Does every martial arts video on YouTube have to have a katana vs. longsword argument in the comment thread?

-- Alex

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

^It's Youtube. What do you expect?

Anyways, Jeet Kune Do was developed in California by Bruce Lee, IIRC.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

Did anybody else notice Hellboy's leg hook MMA style takedown in Hellboy 2?

 

[poleboy]

^It's Youtube. What do you expect?

Anyways, Jeet Kune Do was developed in California by Bruce Lee, IIRC.

But it was based off various kung fu styles, no? I don't really know what he was schooled in but since he was Chinese, my money's on kung fu.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

According to wikipedia, he was heavily influenced by Western boxing and fencing. He apparently started using Wing Chun, but gave up Wing Chun for the most part, replacing it with what he considered to be the more fluid and flexible boxing and fencing stances.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

According to wikipedia, he was heavily influenced by Western boxing and fencing. He apparently started using Wing Chun, but gave up Wing Chun for the most part, replacing it with what he considered to be the more fluid and flexible boxing and fencing stances.

It's funny, I always used to think that he fashioned his style based on just surface observations of other styles. In actuality he was very well versed in traditional boxing, evening being a boxing champion in China, and his brother was a fencer.

 

[Eyclonus]

I've done fencing, mostly influenced by the German traditions, and Boxing. People really underestimate western martial arts. The Katana Vs Long Sword debate is only argued by people who have training in neither. The differences between the two are so vast as to render all debate moot. Although most idiots to ignore the point that European societies had developed armour that was simply godlike in comparison to the standard for Samurai.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I wanna learn Chuck-fu.

Does fencing count as a western martial art? The Western martial arts can't be that bad, or else we would never have one any of the crusades, or numerous other wars in the east.

 

[nastykerm]

I have just ordered a fully functional and sharpepned Viking sword. (This one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHgwOeHTlWA)


When it comes to European fencing I really like this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4Ng6DBfrg

 

[Danny Ocean]

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[BallPtPenTheif]

Savat is a well respected western martial art that was also incorporated by Bruce Lee

 

[hamster mk 4]

Fencing the Olympic sport moves so damn fast most people can't tell what is going on. Kendo its eastern relative has so many rules about what constitutes a valid hit that most people can't tell what is going on their either. The only way the average beer swilling, football watching, man on the street can even comprehend what is going on in a sword fight is if it is spoon fed to him through a choreographed stage fight. I know I am coming off very elitist here but I have spent nine years fencing foil and it aggravates me to no end to hear some one say "I can do that" then flail around like the star wars kid for a few seconds.

 

[Rocksa]

Ah yes, Savat. Any martial art that incorporates newspapers and umbrellas and turns them into deadly weapons, that's a freaking awesome fighting style. Watched some special on martial arts and they featured an old French Savat master, and he beat the ever-loving crap out of three guys with nothing but a rolled up newspaper. He kind of broke one guys arm buy spinning him around all crazy.

Anyway, what about Capoeira? It originated in Brazil, supposedly. Although, well, I mean it does look pretty and all, but I'm not sure how effective it is in an actual fight.

There's also Okichitaw, a Canadian martial art, supposed to use a lot of the techniques developed by the Assiniboine and Plains Cree Indians, but it's also got a lot of Judo, Hapkido, and I believe Tae Kwando techniques mixed in, so I wouldn't call it completely western.

Krav Maga is one that's just fricken' brutal. The concepts behind the style, and every technique about it is focused on basically killing the guy you're fighting.

 

[Jamash]

It think one of the most underestimated Western Martial arts is wrestling, which includes many folk styles such as Catch Wrestling [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_wrestling].

Modern pro-wrestling, especially British pro-wrestling, has led to the misconception that wrestling is fake & staged, but back in the day, these wrestling styles were brutal.
During medieval times wrestling was one of the main hand-to-hand tecniques used by knights, men-at-arms & soldiers to cripple & kill heavily armoured opponents when weapons weren't available, i.e. broken or lost.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

If you want to see a non-Asian martial art featured in a movie, Tom Yum Goong has a pretty good fight, Tony Jaa (Muay Thai) vs. Lateef Crowder (Capoeira). I heard one of them got pretty badly injured during the fight, messed up knee, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moReN9l2ap0

 

[Ares Tyr]

^It's Youtube. What do you expect?

Anyways, Jeet Kune Do was developed in California by Bruce Lee, IIRC.

But it was based off various kung fu styles, no? I don't really know what he was schooled in but since he was Chinese, my money's on kung fu.

It was based off of several different martial arts from across the world, including western Boxing and European fencing (footwork wise) as well as wrestling.

300 had Western Martial Arts featured. So... yep.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

oh, somebody mentioned wrestling which reminded me of Pancrais

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Tony Jaa is the go to guy for crazy ass martial arts. Write him a letter, maybe he'll make a movie where he kicks the crap out of guys using these fighting styles.

 

[Ares Tyr]

oh, somebody mentioned wrestling which reminded me of Pancrais

You mean pankration?