Kung Fu vs MMA fails again. Xu Xiaodong just seems to be walking through so many Chinese Martial Arts practitioners. Why does this keep happening? After all, Chinese Martial Arts has the tradition of challenge fighting.
Why do Chinese Martial Arts keep loosing on challenge fights. Well this week we discuss the main problem. The difference in culture of training between the East and the West. It’s simply down to the difference in the approach of training martial arts.
Of course this leads to other questions: How do you know that Chinese Martial Art will WORK in a Real Fight? How do you tell it works for REAL? Is the Martial Art that you train fit for self defence or is it FAKE? We have made a few videos on these questions.
Most martial arts fail in street fights or self defence because people train for the wrong fight. This week we look at what self defence means and why martial arts may not always help you focus in the right way.
Self Defence or Martial Arts Training: Which is best to learn to defend yourself? Simple question, but there is a big difference between training a martial art and learning to defend yourself. This week we discuss the differences and what you should look for if you wish to learn to defend yourself.
What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?
What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?
- no headrests
- Villains can’t shoot
- Heroes never reload their weapons
- Women fighting with long hairs. How do they even see?
- Teenagers with flawless skin and looking like they are in their mid-20s
- How do heroes remember who has killed their father or mother when he was 5. Most people forget what has happened at that time.
- How do women knock out men twice their size without a scratch? Men have height and weight advantage.
- Highly-trained snipers missing a very clean shot
Trump Is More Optimistic Than Reagan, and That’s Not Good
His budget assumes 3% growth and includes a basic math error.
President Trump has outdone Ronald Reagan in at least one respect: unrealistically rosy forecasts for economic growth. In 1981, President Reagan’s first budget predicted growth well above the consensus of private forecasters, in a bid to justify large tax cuts and increased defense spending. When the promised growth did not materialize, the deficit and debt ballooned.
Now Mr. Trump is leading the economy down a primrose path that is even more unrealistic.
.. There are two components to economic growth: adding more workers and increasing their productivity. Faster growth in the 1980s was the result of the former, an expanding workforce driven by two irreproducible demographic factors: the baby boomers’ entering their prime working years, and women’s continuing influx into the workforce.
.. Today the baby boomers are hitting retirement. As a result, Reagan-era productivity gains of 1.6% a year would now generate economic growth of only 1.7%.
.. driving growth up to or above 3%. But it is not very likely. My simulations, based on historical data, suggest a 1 in 25 chance of hitting this target over the next decade.
.. the budget effectively double-counts the tax cut’s economic effect—using it once to pay for the tax cut itself and a second time to boost revenue by $2.2 trillion, so as to show a lower projected path for the deficit.