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Does a knockout punch always carry the risk of killing the receiver?
However, if, as she claims, one cannot attempt to land a knockout punch without a significant risk of the receiver's death, then what about boxing, MMA and other such sport competitions? If what she ...
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Does a knockout punch always carry the risk of killing the receiver?
It is technically correct that any knockout punch carries with it the risk of killing the target. Rendering someone unconscious essentially involves disrupting the brain, whether it is by rattling the ...
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Would women with large breasts be able to fight?
I'm not entirely sure this question is serious, but what the heck. :)
I've known female classmates in styles like Taekwondo and Kung-fu. They generally said that getting punched in the breast was ...
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What is this name of this kind of joint lock?
This appears to be a hammerlock or "chicken wing", held with only one hand for ostensibly artistic purposes i.e. to imply Sherlock is so skilled he only needs to utilise a very small amount ...
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Is there any Systema in John Wick 2?
No. Not specifically.
In the John Wick 2 training featurettes, they mention Japanese Juijitsu, Brazilian Juijitsu, and Judo as the three arts they practiced with Keanu in preparation for John Wick 2. ...
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Sometimes while fighting, people stand still and let their enemy attack. Why?
It's basically for dramatic effect.
In any fight be it competition or self defence or anything else you never stand still. This is to showing to the audience that they can block without moving and ...
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Is there a way to carry a knife in your teeth without hurting them, or is it just hollywood?
To answer your question as stated; While, it is possible to carry a knife in your teeth without injury there is no method by which you can do it safely.
The teeth are formed in such a way that they ...
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Using the move from the matrix as a fighting technique
You can dodge punches but doing so by leaning backwards is usually a really bad idea.
I believe I have seen some boxers do it when against the ropes, but only really to show off.
The issue is that you ...
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Would women with large breasts be able to fight?
would they actually be able to fight?
What is going to stop them? Among other things, fighters can be male, female, young, old, short, fat, skinny, tall, missing limbs, or blind. You cannot tell who ...
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Sometimes while fighting, people stand still and let their enemy attack. Why?
Sadly, this happens in most martial arts schools in real life, too. The instructor typically has his partner do something to him, and his partner will just stop immediately afterward. Then the ...
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Sometimes while fighting, people stand still and let their enemy attack. Why?
I don't know about the movies, the reason has more to do with the plot than an actual answer.
In the real world, people exhibit one or more of six responses to an attack: fight, flight, freeze, ...
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What is this name of this kind of joint lock?
In the Takagi-ryū of classical jūjutsu this could be considered a variation of "Ōgyaku dori". Some variants include having the arm collapsed behind the back like in the presented image and GIF. While ...
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How did the Nazi toy shop owner (acted by Kenneth Tigar) turn the knife on Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman)?
This does not in any way reflect reality. Don't read too much into movie fight scenes. It's very rare that they actually have realistic martial arts techniques.
There are moves that will reverse a ...
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Is it possible to still wind someone even if they brace their core muscles?
Chop the trunk and the tree will fall Repetitive strikes to the body do slow down fighters.
In boxing we see this tactic employed time after time, though usually a fight ending bodyshot is unseen by ...
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First fictional film to show Aikido
I have seen references to the 1982 film, The Challenge, prominently showing Aikido (Seagal was a fight coordinator).
The Challenge is a 1982 American action film directed by John Frankenheimer and ...
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Is it possible to still wind someone even if they brace their core muscles?
There is very little muscle in front of the solar plexus. This really is the whole point of hitting someone there. Anatomically the human body is always weak and there is very little that can be ...
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Is it possible to still wind someone even if they brace their core muscles?
Is it possible to still wind someone even if they brace their core muscles?
Yes. If you think about someone relatively weak bracing their core muscles, and a much stronger person hitting them, the ...
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Is there any Systema in John Wick 2?
In addition to the well informed comments above I can add that I definitely recognised a number of throws transitioning into locks from Judo, some very elegant, as always, wrist lock throws from ...
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First fictional film to show Aikido
By searching for "Aikido film" on Google I found this one from 1975: The Defensive Power of Aikido not sure if this meets your requirements though, since it's about the actual founder, Morihei Ueshiba....
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Sometimes while fighting, people stand still and let their enemy attack. Why?
Without knowing the exact situations you're citing, one possibility is that someone is doing a "rope-a-dope", using a strong defense and letting their opponent wear themselves out before starting ...
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How can you withstand a female college student forcefully biting into your arm for 6 seconds?
Not unrealistic at all, imho, in that Philip is highly trained fighter.
The bite Paige delivers is not determinative. Only pain is inflicted.
There is no serious risk of loss of function of limb, ...
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Is the move in movies where the main either block another person’s punches by countering / blocking with their own arms or legs a real thing?
The idea is to dodge first and then just cover to ensure that the punch is not redirected. However this only works against straight attacks. Curved attacks are much harder to dodge.
You can block a ...
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How authentic is the Wing Chun in the Ip Man films?
The Wing Chun training and also the fight choreography for the Ip Man films is attributed to Sammo Hung who enlisted Master Leo Au-Yeung to assist - see: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4348989/ - having ...
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What is the dominant martial arts style in Bruce Lee's on-screen fighting?
To be fair, you would have to catalog every technique from every movie (3, I think) and assign them to a "style" (but what's the point?). My immediate response, though, is that Lee's ...
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Does a knockout punch always carry the risk of killing the receiver?
Is it correct that a punch with knockout power cannot be reliably expected to KO the receiver, but may always kill the receiver or have little visible effect?
These are wildly different scenarios; ...
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Would women with large breasts be able to fight?
I think there are bunch of ways to handle this kind of 'problem'. I know some girls use elastic band to make their trainings comfortable
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Is the move in movies where the main either block another person’s punches by countering / blocking with their own arms or legs a real thing?
It works, but there are some things to consider
It is a question of conditioning and hitting with the right parts into the right parts, ie. for example hard parts (where bones are close to the surface)...
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How can you withstand a female college student forcefully biting into your arm for 6 seconds?
I've watched this scene a few more times, and it's very good choreography, representative of the better work over the past few decades.
Notice how relaxed Philip is during the grappling—Royce Gracie ...
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How can you withstand a female college student forcefully biting into your arm for 6 seconds?
If you've watched some, for example, MMA fights, you may notice that fighters are generally tolerant to pain and injures got in process. And yes, it's really so - just because high adrenaline levels ...
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Can an adult male martial arts expert withstand elbowing into his abdomen into his left arm for 6 seconds?
Those elbows wouldn't have done anything much at all, even to an untrained person. Most of the time the camera was too high to show her actual elbow, but she seemed too close to hit with the actual ...
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