>>186380
>one of those styles
If I've learned anything from fighting it's that the trainer's understanding of fighting's realities and skill at training some oik who's never made a fist in his life how to last 5 seconds in a fucked up crazy situation matters a LOT more than whatever style you work with. You can make anything work as long as you accept that much like with law, there is no true right answer in fighting, even though you need both solid prepwork and the ability to improvise to succeed. I honestly dunno if my sensei's lineage was Okinawan or Japanese. He was a big heavyset Taiwanese dude who just new how to fuckin' fighting, and I think that mattered more in the end than whatever his lineage was.
I DO regret not learning more from my kenjutsu teacher, though. He was a kyokushin blackbelt. And we can argue about the stylistic strengths and weaknesses of kyokushin, but at the end of the day it has what every good style need: FULL. CONTACT. I really regret not taking some more time out of my weekend to learn how to blast a ribcage good and proper.
Hell yeah, Donnie moreso than anyone from his generation has earned his retirement. Shit I don't even care his movies quickly went full Rocky 4-tier levels of nationalist propaganda, it's so hilariously over the top it's STILL entertaining even though it's very blatant.
>spoiler
Hit me. I've completely lost track of GOOD fighting after The Raid 2. RRR has good choreography but like...it's noticeably choreography.
>>186381
Well, thank ye kindly. For what it's worth I did actually get tugged into seeing a psychiatrist who did confirm I'm on the spectrum enough to count. It's just that unlike in the West where I'm given to understand you're encouraged to be yourself (as long as "yourself" isn't ideologically controversial) in Asia the typical response to being neurodivergent is to try everything from shouting at the child to rigorous exercise in the hopes of just exhausting the individuality out of it. So if I seem upfront about my programming, I think it's because I'm so fucking fed up with my culture I just feel I gain NOTHING from pretending everything is fine anymore when I got my academic papers and I got my job that I spent my childhood slaving towards (especially on a mongolian basket weaving forum...colony), and because none of you are doing business (not jumpmaking, actual money business) with me so I don't need to expend the energy to wear my polite/efficient/has plan to kill everyone I meet mask like I do in public.
>>186385
The first two seasons were pretty alright if you like 90s kids and grisly horror. Heard it fell off HARD in the latest season but...well, that's par the course for most shows that go on for this long these days.
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