Is bushido 10 for real, or is it a circus-like act such as WWF?
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Bushido is the lightweight division of Japanese Mixed Martial Arts fighting organisation PRIDE. It's real fighting. Stand-Up martial arts (such as Muay Thai, Boxing, Kick Boxing, Karate) combined with ground techniques (i.e. Wrestling, strikes on the ground, Jiu-Jitsu..) and submissions. I've been watching that stuff since the early Ultimate Fighting Championships in the 90s. It's cool + not booked fake such as WWE Wrestlemania.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship.  I don't think that it can really be classified as martial arts.  It's televised on Spike TV.
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Well, what you say is both true and not exactly true.\n\nSee ??? wrestling is the most dominant fighting style of all time. That much is undisputed. \n\nIn fact, the most dominant fighting style of current times is wrestling(http://www.sherdog.com/stats/upr_styles_current.asp) and the most dominant fighting style of all time is wrestling (http://www.sherdog.com/stats/upr_styles_alltime.asp) too.\n\nNow, that essentially translates into this:- \n\nIn a mixed martial arts enviroment, where fighting styles are pitted against other styles, cross trained wrestlers have been far superior performers then cross trained Judo practitioners, cross trained kickboxers or cross trained Brazillian Jiu Jitsu fighters.\n\nAlso, wrestling is essential for EVERYONE to learn, and is the underlying secret behind MMA success. See ?? you can NEVER take Brazillian Jiu Jitsu (fighters in Japan and Russian rarely do) in your life and still KO Ceaser Graie in what ?? 21 seconds like shoot wrestler Frank Shamrock did.\n\nUnbeatable champions like Fedor Emalianeko are wrestlers [Fedor studies Judo and Sambo, both forms of Internationally sanctioned amature wrestling under the International Association of Federated Wretling Styles (FILA)]. According to the Russian sensibilities "wrestling" is associated with Sambo, the Japanese sensibilities tilt towards accepting Judo as "wrestling' and the Americans think that wrestling as they know it is "Folkstyle/Collegiate". Intrestingly enough, there are as many forms of wrestling as there are cultures.\n\nAND, rival systems like BJJ incorporate single leg and doble leg takedowns,sprawls, slamming takedowns and a plethora of moves from freestyle wrestling [another wrestling discipline sanctioned by the international Association of Federated Wretling Styles (FILA)]. In fact, you can walk into a Mixed Martial arts enviroment and substitute Brazillian Jiu Jitsu with Catch wrestling or shoot wrestling or sambo wrestling, you can substitute Muai Thai with forms of kickboxing but wrestling stays in your curriculum whether you take shootfighting, Miletech martial arts, Renzo Gracie Jiu Jitsu. You get the idea.\n\nWrestling is that indispensible.\n\nThe fact is, nowadays everyone who is of note in mixed martial arts is a profiecient wrestler.\n\nHaving said all that, a pure wrestler against a man who has trained in wrestling + Brazillian Jiu Jitsu(or shootfighting)+ boxing will be at a disadvantage........quite simply because the other man knows wrestling and striking as well......\n\nexamples:-\n\n1) Olympic gold medal winner Kevin Jackson went against Shoot wrestler Frank Shamrock, got armbarred in 16 seconds.\n\n2) Pro wrestler Kazuyuki Fujita KO'ed Karam Ibrahim.\n\nWrestling as a single style martial arts is great, but in a mixed martial arts enviroment, where studying even an advanced hybrid system like Combat Submission Wrestling, Shoot wrestling and Brazillian Jiu Jitsu is not enough, any single style does not have the capability to defeat all styles combined.
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me! i love it used to do wado-ryu when i was younger but started shotokan and its better- especially the katas\nour association is kaizencentral karate federation,run by a former world champion.
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william,\n\nI don't think I would seriously take any cues from television or movies...scripted, choreographed sword fights have little to do with the real deal...which is what kenJUTSU (sword techniques) is all about as compared to ken DO (way of the sword)...not knocking kendo, however...\n\nThere are some very good videos and books out there which outline the basics of sword techniques, beginning with proper grip and foot work and basic cutting strokes.  \n\nGood Luck!
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Um, no that's real... that's a serious video that was made for "Way of the Master," and there's a whole series of them. Scary, isn't it?\n\nHere's a user's list that has all kinds of entertaining tidbits, including some other way of the master stuff.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=zonkas\n\nAnd the site from which they spawn...\n\nhttp://www.wayofthemaster.com/\n\nThe funniest thing about this video? Bananas did NOT look like to begin with. People farmed them and bred them to get better and better results.\n\nIf anything, it's proof of intelligent design - so long as the "designer" is humans.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqQttJinjo
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Yes wreslting fight scences are fake as well. But I must say that you make a pretty good point. A lot of people say that the fight scenes in fighting movies are pretty real. Well actaully to tell you the truth there is only one movie that there was actaully a real fight scene. These people are hired because they wanted to be hired. I find it quiet intersting that most people say that wreslting is real. I have to disagree with them. BUT some inguries are real. Such as Batista. When he went threw his Tricepts sugrey he wanted all his fans to get a closer look at how much pain he went threw when Mark Henry slammed that steel cage door aganist his Tricepts.
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Unfortunately No ... they are all scripted except for maybe the "Dark Matches" which are not aired on T.V. since wwf became wwe it became more scripted ...
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Yes it is. I just googled it and its true!! www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/gallery/i/islandboys.html\nclick on Ekmo Fatu (Jamal)\nYou'll see a couple pics of him as Umaga.\n\nIt didnt finish the web address, here is the rest:\ngallery/i/islandboys.html
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No(yes). It is not real(it is).\n\nhttp://www.poleshift.org/sublim/
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Of course it is fake.  Sane people would never go out and do that to their bodies unless they had some control over it.  They do get hurt and they do put their bodies through the ringer but they are all choreographed and they know who will win before they step out to see the crowd cheering them on.  \nI like it because it is better than a soap opera.  It's like Survivor meets Real World meets tough Enough meets General Hospital... all to good music with great drama, men and women in revealing costumes showing off their goodies and beyond all that... it's a couple hours away from every day stress that makes me laugh, scream at the TV and basically forget my problems as i watch them battle out out for my viewing pleasure.
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Yes. So is mud wrestling and foxy boxing. ;)
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Um... High school wrestling , I have two brothers in High School wrestling and they've taught me everything there is to know about wrestling, I LOVE IT! anyway, wwf is totaly fake and technically it's not really wrestling there are so many illegal moves in there, and I've yet to c an actual wrestling move in there, of coarse I don't watch it I stopped after one show because in my OPINION it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
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It is scripted, not fake. There is a difference. Experienced wrestlers work as much as six nights a week and want to continue to earn a living at what they do, so they are careful, and punches are pulled. Contrary to some beliefs, the matches are not choreographed. At least not like you would  commonly define choreography. The wrestlers are not told how the match will go until they get to the arena. Sometimes they are not given this info till a few minutes before they go in the ring. The person who "runs" the program gives the wrestlers the pre-determined ending of the match, and the time allotted for the match. It is then up to the wrestlers to fill in the gaps. 99% of the holds and throws are real, and can be used to bring down an opponent. Every now and then there will be some ludicrous "magic" move that is total fantasy. The matches are like a soap opera. The good guys (called baby faces) represent the struggle of the common man against the evil of the world. This evil is represented by the bad guys (called heels) The good guy constantly seeks justice from the representatives of law and order (the referees) When this justice is obviously never forthcoming, the good guy takes justice in his own hands and fights fire with fire. He uses the bad guy's tactics against him and cheats to defeat him. EVERY ONE can identify with this in real life. Even when the good guy loses by getting caught, the fans feel justice has finally been served! So, there you have it. Scripted!.....By the way, the wrestlers refer to the fans as marks: the unsuspecting victims of a fraud. They have their own pig-latin style language that is used when discussing the secrets of the profession when they think a mark may be in hearing range.
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I have studied several martial arts. Drunken monkey isn't as practical as other styles. But it is very interesting to learn. \n\nI found an authentic samauri school in the state I live in which teaches combat ju juitsu and ninjutsu.  Full contact no pads. I stuck to the Ju Juitsu side and it has been extremely effective. \n\nI haven't lost a street fight in about 10 years. Not that I fight that often but it happens when you hang out in rough areas sometimes. \n\nIt is so effective the US military is starting to teach it to soldiers now and police departments have been using it for years. \n\nYour fighting skills are a culmination of all styles you learn. \n\nI encourage you to learn any styles you are interseted in. What works for some may not work for others. But having the knowledge of many styles will make you an effective fighter in any situation.
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Yes it is legit. There are several versions taught in the military. 4/42 HHB FA\n\nHikuta is an ancient Egyptian martial art still used today. The basis for Hikuta is the ancient art of Kuta. Today Hikuta is used for very modern reasons, used mostly by law enforcement and military . Added to Kuta has been several Ju Jitsu type systems as well as modern tactical knowledge, to form Hikuta.
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100% correct. The WWF/E totally ripped of ECW. Tables? Intergender matches where women sell high risk moves?Thumb tacks? Constant bleeding? Those things were totally foreign to the WWF until they started signing ECW performers. All you have to do is look at Steve Austin. His gimmick is a 100% ripoff of the Sandman. Sandman was drinking beer and flipping off the fans 6 years before "The Ringmaster" made is debut in Stamford.